hi , i would like to parse some file with the fallowing data :
data data data "unwanted data" data data "unwanted data"
data data data data #unwanted data.
what i want it to have any coments between "" and after # to be erased using awk or/and sed.
has anyone an idea?
thanks. (3 Replies)
I'm having a problem with a sed script.
A programmer needs to change columns 942,943,944 to blank spaces only where it has the number 999 in every line.
I didn't have a copy of the data file to test with originally so made my own up with a bunch of x's and put 999 in columns 5-7. The sed... (1 Reply)
i have file in the following format
*RECORD*
*FIELD NO*
123456
*FIELD TX*
this is a sample entry
*FIELD SA*
See Also
*FIELD RF*
References
*FIELD CS*
Clinical Symptoms
*FIELD AV*
Allelic Variants
*FIELD EH*
Edit History
*RECORD*
*FIELD NO*
123456 (1 Reply)
I want to delete corrupt records from a file through awk or sed.
Can anyone help me with this
Thanks
Striker
Change subject to a descriptive one, ty. (1 Reply)
All,
Can somebody provide me with some sed expertise on how to parse the
following line.
27-MAR-2011 10:28:01 * (CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dmart)(CID=(PROGRAM=sqlplus)(HOST=mtasnprod1)(USER=mtasnord))) * (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=10.197.7.47)(PORT=54881)) * establish * dmart * 0
I would like... (3 Replies)
Hello guys,
I guess you are fed up with sed command and parse questions, but after a while researching the forum, I could not get an answer to my doubt. I know it must be easy done with sed command, but unfortunately, I never get right syntax of this command
OK, this is what I have in my... (3 Replies)
Heya,
I'm currently working on a script so I can see which cron jobs, if any, on a system are executing less frequently than 15 minutes (1 - 14 minutes). This is the only data I'm interested in. So far I have the following:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\n';for line in `ls -f /var/spool/cron/*`;
do... (5 Replies)
I would like to parse two strings from lines in a file only when both strings appear on the same line. For example, if I have the following line:
string1 string2 string3 string4 string5 string6 string7 string8 string9
I would like the output to be:
string2: string7
Can someone give me... (5 Replies)
sorry I messed up the last post with too many mistakes and corrections so I closed it and opening a new one which should be clear to everyone .my apologies to the admins.
I am using sun solaris and Linux , what I want is SED to print any string (or output it to a file preferably) that does... (2 Replies)
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basename
basename(3C)basename(3C)NAME
basename(), dirname() - extract components of a path name
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
takes the path name pointed to by path and returns a pointer to the final component of the path name, deleting any trailing '/' characters.
If the string consists entirely of '/' characters, returns a pointer to the string "/". If path is a null pointer or points to the empty
string, returns a pointer to the string ".".
takes the path name pointed to by path and returns a pointer to a string that is a path name of the parent directory of that file. If path
is a null pointer, points to the empty string, or does not contain a '/' character, then returns a pointer to the string ".".
RETURN VALUE
returns a pointer to the final component of path.
returns a pointer to a string that is the parent directory of path.
EXAMPLES
The following code fragment calls and
WARNINGS
and may overwrite path.
and in non-threaded applications currently use a static buffer in each function to hold the result string. Any subsequent calls to and may
overwrite the static buffer. At some release after HP-UX 11i Version 1, HP may use to allocate the buffers. Once allocated, those buffers
will be reused and their addresses will not change; however, if the fails, and would return "." and would be set to
AUTHOR
and were developed by HP.
SEE ALSO basename(1), thread_safety(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE basename(3C)