Not really. If you were dealing with a very large file and there were many lines remaining after printing the target, both approaches could continue reading the entire file. I say "could" because some sed implementations, when using -n, will abort once they know that there's no possibility of an address matching further input (I believe I saw such an optimization in gnu sed a while back).
To ensure that sed doesn't continue reading needlessly, use q:
Regards,
Alister
I have a shell script and want to assign a value to a variable. The value is the line exctrated from a file using the line number. The line number it is not fix, and could change any time.
I have tried sed, awk, head .. See my script
# Get randome line number from the file
#selectedline = `awk... (1 Reply)
Hi Everybody,
I am trying to write a script that will get some perticuler data from a file and redirect to a file.
My Question is,
I have a Very huge file,In that file I have my required data is started from 25th line and it will ends in 100th line.
I know the line numbers, I need to get all... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I am having trouble extracting a specific line from a file when the line number is known. My first attempt involved grep -n 'hi' (the word 'hi will always be there) to get the line number before the line that I actually want (line 4).
Extra Notes:
-I am working in a bash script.
-The... (7 Replies)
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)
Hello Everyone.
I am trying to display contains of a file from a specific line to a specific line(let say, from line number 3 to line number 5). For this I got the shell script as shown below:
if ; then
if ; then
tail +$1 $3 | head -n $2
else
... (5 Replies)
FOLKS ,
i have a text file that is generated automatically of an another korn shell script, i want to bring in the fifth line of the text file in to my korn shell script and look for a particular word in the line . Can you all share some thoughts on this one.
thanks...
Venu (3 Replies)
Dear all,
I am trying to extract a number from a line in one file (task 1), duplicate another file (task 2) and replace all instances of the strings 300, in duplicated with the extracted number (task 3). Here is what I have tried so far:
for ((k=1;k<4;k++)); do
temp=`sed -n "${k}p"... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I search all forum, but I can not find solutions of my problem :(
I have multiple files (5000 files), inside there is this data :
FILE 1:
1195.921 -898.995 0.750312E-02-0.497526E-02 0.195382E-05 0.609417E-05
-2021.287 1305.479-0.819754E-02 0.107572E-01 0.313018E-05 0.885066E-05
... (15 Replies)
I have a LOG file which looks like this
Import started at: Mon Jul 23 02:13:01 EDT 2012
Initialization completed in 2.146 seconds.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Import summary for Import item: PolicyInformation... (8 Replies)
In the below perl code I am using tags within each line to extract certain information. The tags that are used are:
STB >0.8 is STRAND BIAS otherwise GOOD
FDP is the second number
GO towards the end of the line is read into an array and the value returned is outputed, in the first line that... (1 Reply)