1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey Everybody, I am having much trouble figuring this out, as I am not really a programmer..:mad: Datafile.txt Column0 Column1 Column2 ABC DEF xxxGHI I am running using WGET on a cronjob to grab a datafile, but I need to cut the first three characters from... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I would like to remove characters from column 7 so that from an input file looking like this: >HWI-EAS422_12:4:1:69:89 GGTTTAAATATTGCACAAAAGGTATAGAGCGT U0 1 0 0 ref_chr8.fa 6527777 F DD I get something like that in an output file: ... (13 Replies)

3. HP-UX

I have one file which is having content as following... 0513468211,,,,20091208,084005,5,,2,3699310, 0206554475,,,,20090327,123634,85,,2,15615533 0206554475,,,,20090327,134431,554,,2,7246177 0103000300,,,,20090523,115501,89,,2,3869929 0736454328,,,,20091208,084005,75,,2,3699546... (7 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

if i have a file test and have a number(123)456-7899 how do i delete this without deleting all digits in the file. parentheses isn't necessary. (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello sed gurus. I am using ksh on Sun and have a file created by concatenating several other files. All files contain header rows. I just need to keep the first occurrence and remove all other header rows. header for file 1111 2222 3333 header for file 1111 2222 3333 header for file... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

here is what i want to achieve... consider a file contains below contents. the file size is large about 60mb cat dump.sql INSERT INTO `table1` (`id`, `action`, `date`, `descrip`, `lastModified`) VALUES (1,'Change','2011-05-05 00:00:00','Account Updated','2012-02-10... (10 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

working on interactive ftp script saving log and want to remove the password from log so "quote PASS foofoo" would become "quote PASS XXXXXXX" replacing or removing the password is of no matter have tried several sed commands but have only been successful with character matching not pattern ... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a string in which i need to match a pattern and then i need to delete that line which contains that matching string. The string is .. This is the given string //abc/def/IC.5.4.3/test/... i need to match //abc I am writing like this sed '/^/\/\abc/d' but it is not giving me... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings, I need some assistance here as I cannot get a sed line to work properly for me. I have the following list: Camp.S01E04.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION Royal.Pains.S05E07.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMERSE Whose.Line.is.it.Anyway.US.S09E05.720p.HDTV.x264-BAJSKORV What I would like to accomplish is to... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. In need to delete line before and after pattern in file. I came to following commands. Delete line before sed -ni '/pattern/{x;d;};1h;1!{x;p;};${x;p;}' /etc/testfile Delete line after sed -i '/pattern/{N;s/\n.*//;}' /etc/testfile Is it possible to merge it in single command? (3 Replies)