I'm trying to find a command which will allow me to remove a range of lines (2-4) from a .dat file from the command line without opening the file.
Someone mentioned using the ex command?
Does anyone have any ideas?
thanks (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I'm a little new to UNIX. How can I do remove the first and last line in a file? Say, supppose I have a file as below:
1DMA
400002BARRIE
401002CALGARY/LETHBRI
402002CARLETON
500001PORTLAND-AUBRN
501001NEW YORK, NY ... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I'm a little new to UNIX. How can I do remove the first and last line in a file? Say, supppose I have a file as below:
Code:
1DMA
400002BARRIE
401002CALGARY/LETHBRI
402002CARLETON
500001PORTLAND-AUBRN
501001NEW YORK, NY
502001BINGHAMTON, NY ... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to remove multiple lines of text based off a series of different words and output it to a new file
The document contains a ton of data but i want to delete any line that has the following
mx1.rr.biz.com or ns2.ri.biz.com
i tried using grep -v filename "mx1.rr.biz.com" >... (3 Replies)
I have a text file with a list of items/patterns:
ConsensusfromCGX_alldays_trimmedcollapsedfilteredreadscontiglist(229095contigs)contig12238
ConsensusfromCGX_alldays_trimmedcollapsedfilteredreadscontiglist(229095contigs)contig34624... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a linux server that was hacked and I have a bunch of files that sporadically contain the following lines through out the file:
<?php eval(base64_decode("Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx"));
I did't put the exact lines of the file in this post. The "Xxxx" are random letters/numbers.... (8 Replies)
GM,
I have an issue at work, which requires a simple solution. But, after multiple attempts, I have not been able to hit on the code needed.
I am assuming that sed, awk or even perl could do what I need.
I have an application that adds extra blank page feeds, for multiple reports, when... (7 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a multiple pipe separated files which have records going over multiple Lines. End of line separator is \n and records going over multiple lines have <CR> as separator. below is example from one file.
1|ABC DEF|100|10
2|PQ
RS
T|200|20
3| UVWXYZ|300|30
4| GHIJKL|400|40... (7 Replies)
I have a file `/tmp/wrk` containing filenames with paths. I want to remove filenames
from this file, for example
remove all filenames containing alja cagr cavt clta cmdo or corl
remove all filenames containing data for days in region `d.2016.001` to `d.2016.207`
remove all filenames... (10 Replies)
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unix2dos
unix2dos(1) General Commands Manual unix2dos(1)NAME
unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
unix2dos [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents unix2dos, the program that converts text files in UNIX format to DOS format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates unix2dos under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
unix2dos
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
unix2dos a.txt b.txt
unix2dos -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.
unix2dos a.txt -c iso b.txt
unix2dos -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
unix2dos -k a.txt
unix2dos -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
unix2dos -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
unix2dos -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
unix2dos a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
unix2dos -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
unix2dos -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHOR
Benjamin Lin - ( blin@socs.uts.edu.au )
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO dos2unix(1)1995.03.31 unix2dos v2.2 unix2dos(1)