Hello, I need help in appending the line number of each line to the file and also to get the total number of lines. Can somebody please help me.
I have a file say:
abc
def
ccc
ddd
ffff
The output should be:
Instance1=abc
Instance2=def
Instance3=ccc
Instance4=ddd
Instance5=ffff
... (2 Replies)
I have a file with a list of config files numbered on the lefthand side 1-300. I need to have bash read each lines number and assign it to a variable so it can be chosen by the user called by the script later.
Ex. 1 some data
2 something else
3 more stuff
which number do you... (1 Reply)
I have a file with contents similar to this.
abcd
1234
4567
7666
jdjdjd
89289
9382
92
jksdj
9823
298
I want to write a shell script which count the number of lines that start with the number (disregard the lines starting with alphabets) (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am newbie to bash scripting. Could someone help me with the following.
I have log file with output as shown below
**************************LOG*************************
11/20/2013 9:11:23.64 Pinging xx.xx.xx.xx with 32 bytes of data:
11/20/2013 9:11:23.64 Reply from xx.xx.xx.xx:... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I tried to write a script for replacing some number in a bunch of files. However, I failed because my limited bash scripting knowledge.
Here I will explain the expected function:
I have many data files need to be processed. Here shows one part of a file as an example: a list with... (7 Replies)
Bash script to subdivide a given subnet into a pre-defined number of smaller subnets. Show network/broadcast address, number of hosts and assign gateway.
For example:
Input:
./subnetter.sh 192.168.0.0/24 3 Output:
192.168.0.0/128 subnet 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.127 gateway... (1 Reply)
Bash script to subdivide a given subnet into a pre-defined number of smaller subnets. Show network/broadcast address, number of hosts and assign gateway.
For example:
Input:
./subnetter.sh 192.168.0.0/24 3 Output:
192.168.0.0/128 subnet 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.127 gateway... (1 Reply)
Is there a limit on the number of lines that can be copied into vi editor from another file? When I copy some data items from a file into the vi, I see a limit of 1780 lines can be pasted. After that there seems to be a limit.
How can this be increased?
As an example:, I open an excel file which... (3 Replies)
I have a directory of files, I can show the number of lines in each file and order them from lowest to highest with:
wc -l *|sort
15263 Image.txt
16401 reference.txt
40459 richtexteditor.txt
How can I also print the number of unique lines in each file?
15263 1401 Image.txt
16401... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: spacegoose
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
cat
CAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat -- concatenate and print files
SYNOPSIS
cat [-beflnstuv] [-] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the standard output. The file operands are processed in command line order. A
single dash represents the standard input, and may appear multiple times in the file list.
The word ``concatenate'' is just a verbose synonym for ``catenate''.
The options are as follows:
-b Implies the -n option but doesn't number blank lines.
-e Implies the -v option, and displays a dollar sign ('$') at the end of each line as well.
-f Only attempt to display regular files.
-l Set an exclusive advisory lock on the standard output file descriptor. This lock is set using fcntl(2) with the F_SETLKW command.
If the output file is already locked, cat will block until the lock is acquired.
-n Number the output lines, starting at 1.
-s Squeeze multiple adjacent empty lines, causing the output to be single spaced.
-t Implies the -v option, and displays tab characters as '^I' as well.
-u The -u option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.
-v Displays non-printing characters so they are visible. Control characters print as '^X' for control-X; the delete character (octal
0177) prints as '^?'. Non-ascii characters (with the high bit set) are printed as 'M-' (for meta) followed by the character for the
low 7 bits.
EXIT STATUS
The cat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The command:
cat file1
will print the contents of file1 to the standard output.
The command:
cat file1 file2 > file3
will sequentially print the contents of file1 and file2 to the file file3, truncating file3 if it already exists. See the manual page for
your shell (i.e., sh(1)) for more information on redirection.
The command:
cat file1 - file2 - file3
will print the contents of file1, print data it receives from the standard input until it receives an EOF ('^D') character, print the con-
tents of file2, read and output contents of the standard input again, then finally output the contents of file3. Note that if the standard
input referred to a file, the second dash on the command-line would have no effect, since the entire contents of the file would have already
been read and printed by cat when it encountered the first '-' operand.
SEE ALSO head(1), hexdump(1), lpr(1), more(1), pr(1), tail(1), view(1), vis(1), fcntl(2)
Rob Pike, "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful", USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings, 1983.
STANDARDS
The cat utility is expected to conform to the IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'') specification.
The flags [-belnstv] are extensions to the specification.
HISTORY
A cat utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. Dennis Ritchie designed and wrote the first man page. It appears to have been cat(1).
BUGS
Because of the shell language mechanism used to perform output redirection, the command ``cat file1 file2 > file1'' will cause the original
data in file1 to be destroyed! This is performed by the shell before cat is run.
BSD September 23, 2006 BSD