hi,
how would i extract a range of lines in a file by using the line number? ex: file contains:
1 title
2 i want
3 this part
4 to be taken out
5 from this file
6 and sent to
7 another file
8 not needed
9 end of file
In this case, i want to copy line number 2 to 7 on a new... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a very large text file with about 2 million lines.
Each of the lines starts like..
SNP_12345678 A 1212, 121, 343, ...
SNP_12345678 B 4567, 567, 454, ...
and so on.
I want to extract specific SNPs and plot them by GNUplot or excel.
The file is too large to be opened by text... (1 Reply)
Hi
I want to extract certain text between two line numbers like
23234234324 and
54446655567567
How do I do this with a simple sed or awk command?
Thank you.
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found it:
sed -n '#1,#2p'... (1 Reply)
I regularly extract lines of text from files based on the presence of a particular keyword; I place the extracted lines into another text file. This takes about 2 hours to complete using the "sort" command then Kate's find & highlight facility.
I've been reading the forum & googling and can find... (4 Replies)
I would like to extract specific lines from a file and output them into another file.
Each line in the file has a unique ID, and I have a specific list of IDs (that are not consecutive) that I wish to extract.
for example:
1 aaaaaa bbbcb cccccc
2 aaaaaa bbbbb cccccd
3 aaaaaa bbbab... (6 Replies)
Dear all,
Greetings.
I would like to ask for your help to extract lines with specific words in addition 2 lines before and after these lines by using awk or sed.
For example, the input file is:
1 ak1 abc1.0
1 ak2 abc1.0
1 ak3 abc1.0
1 ak4 abc1.0
1 ak5 abc1.1
1 ak6 abc1.1
1 ak7... (7 Replies)
Hi there,
I need a help with extracting data from tab delimited file which look like this
#CHROM POS ID REF ALT Human Cow Dog Mouse Lizard
chr2 3033 . G C 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/1 0/0
chr3 35040 . G T 0/0 0/0 ./. 1/1 0/1
chr4 60584 . T G 1/1 1/1 0/1 1/1 0/0
chr10 7147815 . G A 0/0 1/1 0/0 0/0... (9 Replies)
Data file example
I look for primary and * to isolate the interesting slot number.
slot=`sed '/^primary$/,/\*/!d' filename | tail -1 | sed s'/*//' | awk '{print $1" "$2}'`
Now I want to get the Touch line for only the associate slot number, in this case, because the asterisk... (2 Replies)
Hi
This is my first post and I'm just a beginner. So please be nice to me.
I have a couple of html files where a pattern beginning with "http://www.site.com" and ending with "/resource.dat" is present on every 241st line. How do I extract this to a new text file?
I have tried sed -n 241,241p... (13 Replies)
I have a folder containing text files. I need to extract specific lines from the files of this folder based on another file input.txt. How can I do this with awk/sed?
file1
ARG 81.9 8 81.9 0
LEU 27.1 9 27.1 0
PHE .0 10 .0 0
ASP 59.8 11 59.8 0
ASN 27.6 12 27.6 0
ALA .0 13 .0 0... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: alanmathew84
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)