Hi,
I have this problem of separating 10 consecutive lines from a file, say starting from 21 to 30... I have used a filter like this..
head -n 30 myfile | tail -n 10
Is there a simpler way than this? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am planning to implement a scheduled script that will go against my log files (every hour), search for a set of key words (errors, exceptions, faults etc). The script must be intelligent enough to scan only the new lines added to the log file since it last ran.
I can use grep for... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I'm looking for a way to merge two lines only for a given pattern / condition.
Input :
abcd/dad + -49.201 2.09 -49.5 34 ewrew rewtre *
fdsgfds/dsgf/sdfdsfasdd +
-4.30 0.62 -49.5 45 sdfdsf cvbbv *
sdfds/retret/asdsaddsa +
... (1 Reply)
Hello
I have a file in following format:
IV 08:09:07
NM 08:12:01
IC 08:12:00
MN 08:14:20
NM 08:14:15
I need a script to compare time on each line with previous line and show the inconsecutive line. Ex.:
08:12:00
08:14:15
A better way... (6 Replies)
Hi guys
I am deleting a unique line from the file and also need to remove the line above it which is NOT unique and servers as a record separator. Here is an example:
#
101 803E 823F 8240
#
102 755f 4F2A 4F2B
#
290 747D 0926 0927
#
999 8123 813E ... (5 Replies)
i want to write a shell script that correct a text file.for example if i have the input file:
"john has has 2 apples
anne has 3 oranges oranges"
i want that the output file be like this:
"john has 2 apples
anne has 3 oranges"
i've tried to read line by line from input text file into array... (11 Replies)
We have very large transaction logs that have transactions which start with a line that starts with 'Begin :' and ends with a line that starts with 'End :'. For most transactions there is valid data between those two lines.
I am trying to get rid of lines that look like this:
Begin :... (11 Replies)
I have a text file that is about 90,000 lines long. How would I delete lines 64-89, 152-177, 240-265, 328-353... etc? The sections I would like to delete are 26 lines long and the number of lines between the sections I would like to delete is 62 lines. Thanks very much in advance. (6 Replies)
I have a file lake this
cat ex1.txt
</DISCOUNTS>
<B2B_SPECIFICATION elem="0">
<B2B_SPECIFICATION elem="0">
<DESCR>Netti 2 </DESCR>
<NUMBER>D02021507505</NUMBER>
</B2B_SPECIFICATION>
<B2B_SPECIFICATION elem="1">
<DESCR>Puhepaketti</DESCR>... (2 Replies)
I have some data that looks like this:
PXD= ZW< 1,6
QR> QRJ== 1,2(5)
QR> QRJ== 4,1(2)
QR> QRJ== 4,2
QRB= QRB 4,2
QWM QWM 6,2
R<C ZW< 11,2
R<H= R<J= 6,1
R>H XZJ= 1,2(2)
R>H XZJ= 2,6(2)
R>H XZJ= 4,1(2)
R>H XZJ= 6,2
RDP RDP 1,2
What I would like to do is if fields $1 and $2 are... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jvoot
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
tail
TAIL(1) BSD General Commands Manual TAIL(1)NAME
tail -- display the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
tail [-f | -F | -r] [-b number | -c number | -n number] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The tail utility displays the contents of file or, by default, its standard input, to the standard output.
The display begins at a byte, line or 512-byte block location in the input. Numbers having a leading plus (``+'') sign are relative to the
beginning of the input, for example, ``-c +2'' starts the display at the second byte of the input. Numbers having a leading minus (``-'')
sign or no explicit sign are relative to the end of the input, for example, ``-n 2'' displays the last two lines of the input. The default
starting location is ``-n 10'', or the last 10 lines of the input.
The options are as follows:
-b number
The location is number 512-byte blocks.
-c number
The location is number bytes.
-f The -f option causes tail to not stop when end of file is reached, but rather to wait for additional data to be appended to the
input. The -f option is ignored if the standard input is a pipe, but not if it is a FIFO.
-F The -F option is the same as the -f option, except that every five seconds tail will check to see if the file named on the command
line has been shortened or moved (it is considered moved if the inode or device number changes) and, if so, it will close the current
file, open the filename given, print out the entire contents, and continue to wait for more data to be appended. This option is used
to follow log files though rotation by newsyslog(8) or similar programs.
-n number
The location is number lines.
-r The -r option causes the input to be displayed in reverse order, by line. Additionally, this option changes the meaning of the -b,
-c and -n options. When the -r option is specified, these options specify the number of bytes, lines or 512-byte blocks to display,
instead of the bytes, lines or blocks from the beginning or end of the input from which to begin the display. The default for the -r
option is to display all of the input.
If more than a single file is specified, each file is preceded by a header consisting of the string ``==> XXX <=='' where ``XXX'' is the name
of the file.
The tail utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO cat(1), head(1), sed(1)STANDARDS
The tail utility is expected to be a superset of the IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'') specification. In particular, the -b, -r and -F
options are extensions to that standard.
The historic command line syntax of tail is supported by this implementation. The only difference between this implementation and historic
versions of tail, once the command line syntax translation has been done, is that the -b, -c and -n options modify the -r option, i.e. ``-r
-c 4'' displays the last 4 characters of the last line of the input, while the historic tail (using the historic syntax ``-4cr'') would
ignore the -c option and display the last 4 lines of the input.
HISTORY
A tail command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
When using the -F option, tail will not detect a file truncation if, between the truncation and the next check of the file size, data written
to the file make it larger than the last known file size.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD