The string lengths can vary a lot. Actually it causes issues with long strings, it creates new lines in the file, which doesn't fly.
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new lines in the strings is what I meant*
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here is an example string that gets mangled:
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and the reason it is mangled is because of those newline characters in the string... the awk script interprets the newlines when in fact the newline is not supposed to show up until application runtime
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ignoring the "\n"'s would be ideal, can that be done? I don't really understand any of your function...
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I got around the newline thing with sed: sed -i -e 's/\\/\\\\/g'
Hi
I am writing a script which should read a file and search for certain strings 'approved' or 'removed' and retain only those lines that contain the above strings.
Ex: file name 'test'
test:
approved package
waiting for approval package
disapproved package
removed package
approved... (14 Replies)
Hey all, a relative bash/script newbie trying solve a problem.
I've got a text file with lots of lines that I've been able to clean up and format with awk/sed/cut, but now I'd like to remove the lines with duplicate usernames based on time stamp. Here's what the data looks like
2007-11-03... (3 Replies)
Hello guys,
should be a very easy questn for you:
I need to delete strings in file1 based on the list of strings in file2.
like file2:
word1_word2_
word3_word5_
word3_word4_
word6_word7_
file1:
word1_word2_otherwords..,word3_word5_others... (7 Replies)
Platform : RHEL 5.8
I have text file called myapplication.log . In this file, I have around 800 lines which start with the followng three strings
PWRBRKER-3493
PWRBRKER-7834
SCHEDULER-ERROR
How can I delete these lines in one go ? (13 Replies)
if I have the following lines in a file app.log
some lines here
<AAAA>
abc
<id>123456789</id>
ddd
</AAAA>some lines here too
<BBBB>
abc
<id>123456789</id>
ddd
</BBBB>some lines here too
<AAAA>
xyz
<id>987654321</id>
ssss
</AAAA>some lines here again...
How do I get the... (5 Replies)
Hi,
i need help to remove duplicates in my file. The problem is i need to delete one duplicate for each line only. the input file as follows and it is not tab delimited:-
The output need to remove 2nd word (in red) that duplicate with 1st word (in blue). Other duplicates should remained... (12 Replies)
I want to replace strings in test2 according to test1 table. In doing so, I`m losing records that I dont need to replace, please suggest modifications.
what i have
$ cat > test1
a b
c d
$ cat > test2
a
a
a
d
d
what i tried
$ awk ' BEGIN {FS=OFS=" "} FNR==NR{a=$2;next}... (2 Replies)
Within my text file i have several thousand lines of text with some lines containing duplicate strings/words. I would like to entirely remove those lines which contain the duplicate strings.
Eg;
One and a Two
Unix.com is the Best
This as a Line Line
Example duplicate sentence with the word... (22 Replies)
Hello Everyone ,
Iam a newbie to shell programming and iam reaching out if anyone can help in this :-
I have two files
1) Insert.txt
2) partition_list.txt
insert.txt looks like this :-
insert into emp1 partition (partition_name)
(a1,
b2,
c4,
s6,
d8)
select
a1,
b2,
c4, (2 Replies)
I cannot seem to get what should be a simple awk one-liner to work correctly and cannot figure out why. I would like to use patterns from a specific field in one file as regex to search for matching strings in the entire line ($0) of another file.
I would like to output the lines of File2 which... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jvoot
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fmt
fmt(1) User Commands fmt(1)NAME
fmt - simple text formatters
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-cs] [-w width | -width] [inputfile]...
DESCRIPTION
fmt is a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines to produce output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in the -w
width option. The default width is 72. fmt concatenates the inputfiles listed as arguments. If none are given, fmt formats text from the
standard input.
Blank lines are preserved in the output, as is the spacing between words. fmt does not fill nor split lines beginning with a `.' (dot), for
compatibility with nroff(1). Nor does it fill or split a set of contiguous non-blank lines which is determined to be a mail header, the
first line of which must begin with "From".
Indentation is preserved in the output, and input lines with differing indentation are not joined (unless -c is used).
fmt can also be used as an in-line text filter for vi(1). The vi command:
!}fmt
reformats the text between the cursor location and the end of the paragraph.
OPTIONS -c Crown margin mode. Preserve the indentation of the first two lines within a paragraph, and align the left margin of
each subsequent line with that of the second line. This is useful for tagged paragraphs.
-s Split lines only. Do not join short lines to form longer ones. This prevents sample lines of code, and other such for-
matted text, from being unduly combined.
-w width | -width Fill output lines to up to width columns.
OPERANDS
inputfile Input file.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for a description of the LC_CTYPE environment variable that affects the execution of fmt.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO nroff(1), vi(1), attributes(5), environ(5)NOTES
The -width option is acceptable for BSD compatibility, but it may go away in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 9 May 1997 fmt(1)