I have very large txt files (200GB) and just want to to delete the first two lines (headers). So far I used
but this command always takes extremely long as it writes all again. Is there a better way to do it (ie just to delete the lines without writing all again?)
Hi, experts,
I would like to create a function that can calculate the total number of lines in a saved text file and delete specific lines in that particular file (I only want the last few lines). Hav anybody have the experience and giv me a hand in this? (9 Replies)
hello all
I have bunch of files containing lines of text that surrounding by <# .......#> tags
I like to delete this lines from the text files whiteout open the files , can it be done with sed ?
or other unix tool (perl mybe )? (2 Replies)
Hello,
Hello Firends,
I have file like below. I want to remove selected blocks say abc,pqr,lst. how can i remove those blocks from file.
zone abc {
blah
blah
blah }
zone xyz {
blah
blah
blah }
zone pqr {
blah
blah
blah } (4 Replies)
Hi
I want to delete first five and last five lines in text files without opening the file and also i want to keep the same file name for all the files.
Thanks in advance!!!
Ragav (10 Replies)
Hi everybody!
I need to delete several vertical lines in a huge text file.
It should work like the example below. Delete the vertical lines 2 and 8.
123456789
masldfjla
afsajfwel
sajfljsaf
safsarfrl
sajfeljwq
1345679
msldfja
asajfwl
sjfljsf
sfsarfl
sjfeljq
Is there a... (11 Replies)
I have 2 TXT files with with 8 columns in them(tab separated). First file has 2000 entries whereas 2nd file has 300 entries.
The first file has ALL the lines of second file. Now I need to remove those 300 lines (which are in both files) from first file so that first file's line count become... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a text file like below. THe content of the text will vary.
Entire text file have four consecutive lines followed with blank line.
I want to delete the occurrence of the two consicutive lines in the text file. I don't have pattern to match and delete. Just i need to delete all... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I tried the following options but was unable to delete blank lines from file
Input file = temp.hash.txt
temp.hash.txt content
90
0
89.56
0
0
57575.4544
56.89 (9 Replies)
hi all,
trying this using shell/bash with sed/awk/grep
I have two files, one containing one column, the other containing multiple columns (comma delimited).
file1.txt
abc12345
def12345
ghi54321
...
file2.txt
abc1,text1,texta
abc,text2,textb
def123,text3,textc
gh,text4,textd... (6 Replies)
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beav
BEAV(1) General Commands Manual BEAV(1)NAME
beav - binary file editor and viewer
SYNOPSIS
beav [file...]
DESCRIPTION
This is a brief description of the minimal set of commands that are necessary to start using beav effectively. For more information,
review the file /usr/share/doc/beav/beav140.txt.gz.
The file-visit command, Ctl-X Ctl-V, can be used to read a file in for editing. The file can also be read in from the command line; beav
<edit_file>.
Data is displayed in one or more windows. These commands can be used to navigate around the windows.
move-back-char Ctl-B moves left
move-back-line Ctl-P moves up
move-forw-char Ctl-F moves right
move-forw-line Ctl-N moves down
window-delete Ctl-X 0 delete window
window-expand Ctl-X 1 expand window
The move-to-byte command, Ctl-X G, will prompt you for a byte position to move to.
These commands will insert a zero byte at the cursor position or delete the byte at that position.
insert-unit Ctl-X I
delete-forw-unit Esc D
The file-save command, Ctl-X Ctl-S, will save the data to the file if a change has been made.
The help command, Esc ?, will display a list of all commands and their current key bindings.
The abort-cmd command, Ctl-G, will abort any command that is in operation.
The quit-no-save command, Ctl-X Ctl-C, will exit beav. If there is any data that has not been saved you will be warned.
FILES
/usr/share/doc/beav/beav140.txt.gz
BEAV(1)