Hi
Is there any command or a trick that can take me to a specifed line number in unix .
Suppose i have a file with 2000 lines and i would like to go to line number 1899 and then print out the contents of the line.
regards
Hrishy (2 Replies)
I trying to extract certain text from a csv file and then placing it into another csv file, but having problems getting the data to placed in one line with tab separated fields.
Basically would like to have text sent to interfaces.csv in one line seperated by tabs. As it currently places files... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I need convert a dump file in the following format : (please note that line numbers are provided for easy look)
Original file:
1 2007-10-2482.90 No trade 0 0.00 100000.00
2 100000.00
3 0.00
4 HOLD
5 2007-10-2589.75 Bought 1114 1114 100000.00 0.00
... (5 Replies)
OS=HP-UX ksh
The following works, except I want to include the <start> and <end> in the output.
awk -F '<start>' 'BEGIN{RS="<end>"; OFS="\n"; ORS=""} {print $2} somefile.log'
The following work in bash but not in ksh
sed -n '/^<start>/,/^<end>/{/LABEL$/!p}' somefile.log (4 Replies)
I am creating some documentation that includes a list of packages that are to be installed for a Debian Server.
This is a single line and I would like to sort the list of packages alphabetically.
Using a small example of the packages, the best I could come up with was as follows:
I create... (1 Reply)
Hello.
I have a file (old.txt) that I need to copy into another file (new.txt).
Each line on old.txt ends with CR/LF but the position of CR/LF varies from one record to another.
I need to copy each line of record to new.txt and move CR/LF in pos 165.
Can I use awk to achieve this? How?... (8 Replies)
I have a file with different directories in it. I would need to move one line within the file to the end of the list. Also not there could be blank line in the middle of it. Example
/vol/fs1
/vol/fs2
/vol/fs3
/vol/fs4
/vol/fs5
/vol/fs6
/vol/fs7
So I would need /vol/fs2... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I'm struggling with this command:
awk '!/^\+/{ORS=FS}/^\+/{ORS=RS}1' file1 > file2
What I want to do is to move any line that starts with the + sign 1 up, so its the continuation of the previous.
The above command is messing the whole output, can you please let me know... (8 Replies)
I have a file in which each line is the name of another file. Is there a way to serve them to the command line? For example, if the file contains
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
...
file9.txt
is there a way to insert them in the command as a batch?
If I ran a command like
grep... (4 Replies)
Team,
would like to know if it is possibe to move line above.after TEST pattern match
#cat file1
data1
data2
ok
Test
data1
ok
Test
data2
Test
Output:
Test (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: kenshinhimura
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)