Need sed help: find regex and if the next next line is blank, delete both
I've got a report I need to make easier to read Using sh on HP-UX 11.12.
In short, I want to search for a regular expression and when found, examine the next line to see if it's blank. If so, then delete both lines. If not blank, move on to the next regexp. Repeat.
So far I've got:
That finds my regular expression (which is a number by itself on one line and usually looks like 123456-99). I cannot seem to script the next part.
can't figure out a way to delete multiple empty lines but keep single empty lines in a file, file is like this
#cat file
1
2
3
4
5
6
-
What I want is
1
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I am searching a dhcpd.conf to find the hardware ethernet match, then once the match is found delete just the line above it. For example:
testmachine.example {
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
fixed address 192.168.1.100;
next-server 192.168.1.101;
filename "linux-install/pxelinux.0";
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Hi,
I need help with using an awk or sed filter on the below line
ALTER TABLE "ACCOUNT" ADD CONSTRAINT "ACCOUNT_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("ACCT_ID") USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1) TABLESPACE "WMC_DATA" LOGGING ENABLE
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Hi,
I want to write a sed script which from
batiato:
batiato/giubbe:
pip_b.2.txt
pip_b.3.txt
pip_b.3mmm.txt
bennato:
bennato/peterpan:
123.txt
consoli:
pip_a.12.txt
daniele: (2 Replies)
trying to use sed in finding a matching pattern in a file then deleting
the next line only .. pattern --> <ad-content>
I tried this but it results are not what I wish
sed '/<ad-content>/{N;d;}' akv.xml > akv5.xml
ex,
<Celebrant2First>Mickey</Celebrant2First>
<ad-content>
Minnie... (2 Replies)
why does sed 's/.* //' show the last word in a line
and
sed 's/ .*//' show the first word in a line? How is that blank space before or after the ".*" being interpreted in the regex?
i would think the first example would delete the first word and the next example would delete the second... (1 Reply)
I have the following file:
line1
line2
MATCH
line3
line4
I need to find the pattern, "MATCH" and delete the line before and after MATCH. So the result should be
line1
MATCH
lline4
I have to use sed because it is the only utility that is common across my environments. I... (1 Reply)
All,
I am trying to read in a variable and search a file then delete based on that string, but i want to match exact word.
This works but it matches all, i don't want to match anthing that contains the string, just the exact string.
sed -i "/$feedname/d" file
I tried
sed... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a file that I want to be able to insert a new line before every instance of a regex. I can get it to do this for each line that contains the regex, but not for each instance.
Contents of infile:
Test this 1...
Test this 2...
Test this 3... Test this 4... Test this... (2 Replies)
Hi guys I am trying to figure out how to match a pattern with a regex up to a full blank line. I will show you what I mean with this example:
example A
movie name: ted
movie name: TMNT
movie name: Jinxed
example B
movie names:
Gravity
Faster
Turbo
song titles:
dont
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problem (8 Replies)
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fgrep
grep(1) General Commands Manual grep(1)Name
grep, egrep, fgrep - search file for regular expression
Syntax
grep [option...] expression [file...]
egrep [option...] [expression] [file...]
fgrep [option...] [strings] [file]
Description
Commands of the family search the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a pattern. Normally, each line found is copied
to the standard output.
The command patterns are limited regular expressions in the style of which uses a compact nondeterministic algorithm. The command patterns
are full regular expressions. The command uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. The command pat-
terns are fixed strings. The command is fast and compact.
In all cases the file name is shown if there is more than one input file. Take care when using the characters $ * [ ^ | ( ) and in the
expression because they are also meaningful to the Shell. It is safest to enclose the entire expression argument in single quotes ' '.
The command searches for lines that contain one of the (new line-separated) strings.
The command accepts extended regular expressions. In the following description `character' excludes new line:
A followed by a single character other than new line matches that character.
The character ^ matches the beginning of a line.
The character $ matches the end of a line.
A . (dot) matches any character.
A single character not otherwise endowed with special meaning matches that character.
A string enclosed in brackets [] matches any single character from the string. Ranges of ASCII character codes may be abbreviated
as in `a-z0-9'. A ] may occur only as the first character of the string. A literal - must be placed where it can't be mistaken as
a range indicator.
A regular expression followed by an * (asterisk) matches a sequence of 0 or more matches of the regular expression. A regular
expression followed by a + (plus) matches a sequence of 1 or more matches of the regular expression. A regular expression followed
by a ? (question mark) matches a sequence of 0 or 1 matches of the regular expression.
Two regular expressions concatenated match a match of the first followed by a match of the second.
Two regular expressions separated by | or new line match either a match for the first or a match for the second.
A regular expression enclosed in parentheses matches a match for the regular expression.
The order of precedence of operators at the same parenthesis level is the following: [], then *+?, then concatenation, then | and new
line.
Options-b Precedes each output line with its block number. This is sometimes useful in locating disk block numbers by context.
-c Produces count of matching lines only.
-e expression
Uses next argument as expression that begins with a minus (-).
-f file Takes regular expression (egrep) or string list (fgrep) from file.
-i Considers upper and lowercase letter identical in making comparisons and only).
-l Lists files with matching lines only once, separated by a new line.
-n Precedes each matching line with its line number.
-s Silent mode and nothing is printed (except error messages). This is useful for checking the error status (see DIAGNOSTICS).
-v Displays all lines that do not match specified expression.
-w Searches for an expression as for a word (as if surrounded by `<' and `>'). For further information, see only.
-x Prints exact lines matched in their entirety only).
Restrictions
Lines are limited to 256 characters; longer lines are truncated.
Diagnostics
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
See Alsoex(1), sed(1), sh(1)grep(1)