How about this:-
To explain, this will get all lines that do not match any of the expression. The expression is explained as:-
Quote:
" - start of expression
^# - match lines starting with #
| - or
^_ - match lines starting with _
| - or
^$ - match empty lines
| - or
^ *$ - lines contianing only spaces
" - end of expression
You could then append either a redirect to create a new file (don't try to overwrite the source file) or perhaps a pipe to another process, e.g.
I hope that this helps, but please post back if I've missed the point.
I need to read the last file for a particular day, such as, "Jun 13" because the CSV file is cumulative for the entire day, so I don't want all the previous files, I just want the last file, for that day.
I ran an 'ls -al | grep "June 13" > myLs.txt' (simplified) to list all files from that day.... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys
How u all doing?
I am having tough time to achieve this I have a unix .ksh script which calls
sql script
Right now I harcoded column id's in sql script but I want to read them from a txt file
1084,1143,1074,1080,1091,1090,1101,1069,1104,1087,1089,1081
I want to read this... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a set of .txt files I cannot read.
This is a part of what I see.
Is there a way to view these files?
_MO<P.6D@K;WU<B$X-;)SIV/ROO!UL+1P=VTT-?,SLC`MI/6QMS#UYGGT\+)C=#\UIO`TL/0]=#/T)
it's about 3 pages.
Thanks for your help.
Joe (3 Replies)
i'm a beginner in shell and i have a txt file that is updating every second or msec so i need a program to read the last line of this txt file
is this possible to do? (5 Replies)
Hello All,
I just want help in coding a simple shell script since i am a newbie for UNIX and i started learning unix and shell scripting basics recently.
I am having a data like this in .txt file.
Product Name : XYZ
Price : 678.1
Best Buy Price : 600
Product Name : ABC
Price : 465... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to read one file which excludes the line starting with #.
example file:
#Working directory
WORK_DIR|/home/mypath
#Remote directory
REMOTE_DIR|/home/remote
I am reading this file with the following code,
while read line;
do
KEY=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f 1`
... (5 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have two files (A and B) and want to combine them to one by always taking 10 rows from file A and subsequently 6 lines from file B. This process shall be repeated 40 times (file A = 400 lines; file B = 240 lines).
Does anybody have an idea how to do that using perl, awk or sed?... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm new in unix. Need some help here.
I have a file called server.cfg which contains the servers name, if I don't want to run on that server, I'll put a "#" infront it.
username1@hostname.com
username2@hostname.com
#username3@hostname.com
#username4@hostname.com... (17 Replies)
I am new to ksh scripts. I would like to be able to read a file line by line from a certain line number. I have a specific line number saved in a variable, say $lineNumber. How can I start reading the file from the line number saved in $lineNumber? Thanks! (4 Replies)
e.g.
File name: File.txt
cat File.txt
Result:
#INBOUND_QUEUE=FAQ1
INBOUND_QUEUE=FAQ2
I want to get the value for one which is not commented out.
Thanks, (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tanu
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LEARN ABOUT V7
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep, egrep, fgrep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ] ... expression [ file ] ...
egrep [ option ] ... [ expression ] [ file ] ...
fgrep [ option ] ... [ strings ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Commands of the grep family search the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a pattern. Normally, each line found is
copied to the standard output; unless the -h flag is used, the file name is shown if there is more than one input file.
Grep patterns are limited regular expressions in the style of ed(1); it uses a compact nondeterministic algorithm. Egrep patterns are full
regular expressions; it uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. Fgrep patterns are fixed strings; it
is fast and compact.
The following options are recognized.
-v All lines but those matching are printed.
-c Only a count of matching lines is printed.
-l The names of files with matching lines are listed (once) separated by newlines.
-n Each line is preceded by its line number in the file.
-b Each line is preceded by the block number on which it was found. This is sometimes useful in locating disk block numbers by con-
text.
-s No output is produced, only status.
-h Do not print filename headers with output lines.
-y Lower case letters in the pattern will also match upper case letters in the input (grep only).
-e expression
Same as a simple expression argument, but useful when the expression begins with a -.
-f file
The regular expression (egrep) or string list (fgrep) is taken from the file.
-x (Exact) only lines matched in their entirety are printed (fgrep only).
Care should be taken when using the characters $ * [ ^ | ? ' " ( ) and in the expression as they are also meaningful to the Shell. It is
safest to enclose the entire expression argument in single quotes ' '.
Fgrep searches for lines that contain one of the (newline-separated) strings.
Egrep accepts extended regular expressions. In the following description `character' excludes newline:
A followed by a single character matches that character.
The character ^ ($) matches the beginning (end) of a line.
A . 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 * (+, ?) matches a sequence of 0 or more (1 or more, 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 newline 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 [] then *+? then concatenation then | and newline.
SEE ALSO ed(1), sed(1), sh(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
BUGS
Ideally there should be only one grep, but we don't know a single algorithm that spans a wide enough range of space-time tradeoffs.
Lines are limited to 256 characters; longer lines are truncated.
GREP(1)