Hi,
Could some one help me to get rid of visually blank lines from a file using shell or awk or sed (on Solaris machine)?
When I use grep grep -v ^$ inputfile >outputfile it removes some blank lines.. but it seems some tab plus space balnk lines remains.
thaen I used "grep -v '^]*$' ... (1 Reply)
hello... I have a file with a list of filepaths in it, like so:
delMe.txt (files to be deleted)
./root/index.php
./root/language/se/home.inc.php
./root/language/pl/home.inc.php
Now here's what I'm trying to do. I want any lines in the above file (delMe.txt) to be deleted out of the... (3 Replies)
Input:
a
b
b
c
d
d
I need:
a
c
I know how to get this (the lines that have duplicates) :
b
d
sort file | uniq -d
But i need opossite of this. I have searched the forum and other places as well, but have found solution for everything except this variant of the problem. (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a very huge file (4GB) which has duplicate lines. I want to delete duplicate lines leaving unique lines. Sort, uniq, awk '!x++' are not working as its running out of buffer space.
I dont know if this works : I want to read each line of the File in a For Loop, and want to... (16 Replies)
How to remove x lines form top and y lines form bottom.
This works, but like awk only cat file | head -n-y | awk 'NR>(x-1)'
so remove last 3 lines and 5 firstcat file | head -n-3 | awk 'NR>4' (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have file of more than 10000 lines.
I want to delete 40 lines after every 20 lines.
e.g from a huge file, i want to delete line no from 34 - 74, then 94 - 134 etc and so on.
Please let me know how i can do it.
Best regards, (11 Replies)