Thanks for the reply. I want to display only the unrepeated lines.
I think -u will give us single line if it founds duplicates.
and here 1.1 to 1.5 means the length of first filed. isn't it?
Hi all,
I have a file that contains a list of codes (shown below).
I want to 'uniq' the file using only the first field. Anyone know an easy way of doing it?
Cheers,
Dave
##### Input File #####
1xr1 1xws 1yxt 1yxu 1yxv 1yxx 2o3p 2o63 2o64 2o65
1xr1 1xws 1yxt 1yxv 1yxx 2o3p 2o63 2o64... (8 Replies)
Hi ;
I have a question regarding the uniq command in unix
How do I uniq 3rd field in a file ?
original file :
zoom coord 39 18652 39 18652
zoom coord 39 18653 39 18653
zoom coord 39 18818 39 18818
zoom coord 39 18840 39 18840
zoom coord 41 15096 41 15096
zoom... (1 Reply)
How can I use uniq on a certain field or what else could I use? If I want to use uniq on the second field and the output would remove one of the lines with a 5.
bob 5 hand
jane 3 leg
jon 4 head
chris 5 lungs (1 Reply)
Hello all, new to unix and have just found the forum.
I think I will be here quite often, and hope that in time i will be able to provide soem help, role on not being a newbie anymore :)
I have a question which iI am hoping someone could help me with.
If i have a file with lines in in thus... (8 Replies)
I have a flatfile A.txt
2012/12/04 14:06:07 |trees|Boards 2, 3|denver|mekong|mekong12
2012/12/04 17:07:22 |trees|Boards 2, 3|denver|mekong|mekong12
2012/12/04 17:13:27 |trees|Boards 2, 3|denver|mekong|mekong12
2012/12/04 14:07:39 |rain|Boards 1|tampa|merced|merced11
How do i sort and get... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am searching for a script which will produce an output file with the uniq first field with the second field having highest value among all the duplicates..
The output file will produce only the uniqs which are duplicate 3 times..
Input file
X 9
B 5
A 1
Z 9
T 4
C 9
A 4... (13 Replies)
I am trying to output a tab-delimited result that uses the data from a tab-delimited file to combine and subtract specific lines.
If $4 matches in each line then the first matching sequential $6 value is added to $2, unless the value is 1, then the original $2 is used (like in the case of line... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file like this(having 2 column).
Column 1: like a,b,c....
Column 2: having numbers.
I want to segregate those numbers based on column 1.
Example:
file.
a 5
b 9
b 620
a 710
b 230
a 330
b 1910 (4 Replies)
Hi,
So awk is driving me crazy on this one. I have searched everywhere and read man, docs and every related post Google can find and still no luck. The actual files I need to run this on are sensitive in nature, but it is the same thing as if I needed to calculate weighted grades for multiple... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: cotilloe
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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 v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)