Hi,
I am just trying to extract a line at a time from a file using awk and can't yet extract even the first line using the following:-
awk '/(^) && (NR==1)/ {print $1}' file1
Is there an obvious silly error here?
Thanks (3 Replies)
If my file looks like this….
10
20
30
and I want to take each line individually and put it in a variable so it can be read
later in it's on individual test statement, how can I do that? I guess what I'm asking is how can I extract each line individually.
Thanks (5 Replies)
I was proposed with the following problem:
The file 'numbers' contains a list of numbers. Write a command to place the
largest one of those numbers in the file 'largest' (there should be nothing
else in that file). Do not use the 'head' command in your answer.
I think if i used the sort... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I would like to extract a certain portion of sentences from a particular sentence i.e. to extract the last section embrace by
input
output
Please advice.
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Hello there, I am new to unix and would like to do the following, hoping someone would give some guide, thanks in advance.
Lets say i have a file like this:
A w x y w x 0.1
B w x y w x 0.3
C w x y w x 0.7
D w x y w x 0.9
E w x y w x 0.2
So i would like to extract line 1 data where line... (2 Replies)
My file looks like this and i need to only extract those with PDT_AP21_B and output it to another file. Can anyone help? Thanks.
PDT_AP21_R,,, 11 TYS,,,,T17D1207230742TYO***T17DS,,C
PDT_AP21_L,,,9631166650001 ,,,,T17D1207230903TYOTYST17DS ,,C... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to extract lines from a text file given a text file containing line numbers to be extracted from the first file. How do I go about doing this? Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a file ff.txt that looks as follows
*ABNA.txt
356
24
36
112
*AC24.txt
457
458
321
2
ABNA.txt and AC24.txt are the files in the folder named foo1. Based on the numbers in the ff.txt file, I want to extract the lines from the corresponding files in the foo1 folder and... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I have to solve the following problems with multiple tab-separated text file but I don't know how. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have access to Linux mint (but not as a professional).
I have multiple tab-delimited files with the following structure:
file1:
1 44
2 ... (5 Replies)
I've a file like this
{multi line
.......
.......
pattern}
{
some other stuff
.........
}
{multi line
.......
.......
pattern}
{
some other stuff
.........
}
and so on (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
roff
is a text formatter. Its input consists of the text to be out-
put, intermixed with formatting commands. A formatting commandis a line containing the control character followed by a twocharacter command name, and possibly one or more arguments. Thecontrol character is initially . (dot). The formatted output isproduced on standard output. The formatting commands are listedbelow, with being a number, being a character, and being a title.A + before n means it may be signed, indicating a positive ornegative change from the current value. Initial values for whererelevant, are given in parentheses.
.ad Adjust right margin.
.ar Arabic page numbers.
.br Line break. Subsequent text will begin on a new line.
.bl n Insert n blank lines.
.bp +n Begin new page and number it n. No n means +1.
.cc c Control character is set to c.
.ce n Center the next n input lines.
.de zz Define a macro called zz. A line with .. ends definition.
.ds Double space the output. Same as .ls 2.
.ef t Even page footer title is set to t.
.eh t Even page header title is set to t.
.fi Begin filling output lines as full as possible.
.fo t Footer titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hc c The character c (e.g., %) tells roff where hyphens are permitted.
.he t Header titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hx Header titles are suppressed.
.hy n Hyphenation is done if n is 1, suppressed if it is 0. Default is 1.
.ig Ignore input lines until a line beginning with .. is found.
.in n Indent n spaces from the left margin; force line break.
.ix n Same as .in but continue filling output on current line.
.li n Literal text on next n lines. Copy to output unmodified.
.ll +n Line length (including indent) is set to n (65).
.ls +n Line spacing: n (1) is 1 for single spacing, 2 for double, etc.
.m1 n Insert n (2) blank lines between top of page and header.
.m2 n Insert n (2) blank lines between header and start of text.
.m3 n Insert n (1) blank lines between end of text and footer.
.m4 n Insert n (3) blank lines between footer and end of page.
.na No adjustment of the right margin.
.ne n Need n lines. If fewer are left, go to next page.
.nn +n The next n output lines are not numbered.
.n1 Number output lines in left margin starting at 1.
.n2 n Number output lines starting at n. If 0, stop numbering.
.ni +n Indent line numbers by n (0) spaces.
.nf No more filling of lines.
.nx f Switch input to file f.
.of t Odd page footer title is set to t.
.oh t Odd page header title is set to t.
.pa +n Page adjust by n (1). Same as .bp
.pl +n Paper length is n (66) lines.
.po +n Page offset. Each line is started with n (0) spaces.
.ro Page numbers are printed in Roman numerals.
.sk n Skip n pages (i.e., make them blank), starting with next one.
.sp n Insert n blank lines, except at top of page.
.ss Single spacing. Equivalent to .ls 1.
.ta Set tab stops, e.g., .ta 9 17 25 33 41 49 57 65 73 (default).
.tc c Tabs are expanded into c. Default is space.
.ti n Indent next line n spaces; then go back to previous indent.
.tr ab Translate a into b on output.
.ul n Underline the letters and numbers in the next n lines.