1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, i'm trying to erase all the characters after, and including, the first test test Output: test1 test2 test3 this is what I tried, but didn't work sed "s/*//" file > testfilename any suggestions? thanks, gammmaman (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a filr data.txt. Its contents are Available labels (* indicates activated, I indicates installed, R idicates running): abc-3.0.3 def-3.0.4 xyz-3.1.2-1.0 I want to delete " Available labels (* indicates activated, I indicates installed, R idicates running):" and... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can i break a text file into parts that occur between a specific pattern? I have text file having various xml many tags like which starts with the tag "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>" . I have to break the whole file into several xmls by looking for the above pattern. All the... (9 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

...when the lines use both a colon and commas to separate the parts you want read as information. The first version of this script used cut and other non-Bash-builtins, frequently, which made it nice and zippy with little more than average processor load in GNOME Terminal but, predictably, slow... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I cannot seem to get this to work.. I have a file which has about 100 lines, and there is no end of line (line break \n) at the end of each line, and this is causing problem when i paste them into an application. the file looks like this this is a test that is a test balblblablblhblbha... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have number in file which contains date and serial number: 2013101000. The last two digits are serial number (00). So maximum of serial number is 100. After reaching 100 it becomes 00 with incrementing 10 which is day with max 31. after reaching 31 it becomes 00 and increments 10... (31 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I want to break down one of my input files into say 25 parts , run the same script in parallel and then merge the output into a single script. I have access to computing resources that can deal with 25 files, if I just run the original file the total time is about 15 days every time.... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I have file A.txt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Want Output :- 1 2 3 (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a long list of lines in a txt file which i'm only interested to extract the list of domains like the colored ones. domain.com domain.com/page codes $.09 domain.org domain.org/page2/ codes $0.10 domain.net domain.net/page03 codes $0.05 domain.info ... (3 Replies)