Have a go with this:
This looks for the first occurrence of 'pattern' and from there skips the delete portion of the script, so only blank lines before the pattern are deleted.
It assumes your 'blank lines' are empty lines (no whitespace). If you truly have whitespace, then you can replace the delete with something like you've been using.
On Unix, it is easy to get those lines that match a pattern, by
grep pattern file
or those lines that do not, by
grep -v pattern file
but I am editing a file on Windows with Ultraedit.
Ultraedit support regular expression based search and replace.
I can delete all the lines that match a... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have the following data in a file x.csv:
> ,this is some text here
> ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2006/11/16,0.23
> ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2006/12/16,0.88
< ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,this shouldnt be deleted
I need to use SED to match anything with a > in the line and delete that line, can someone help... (7 Replies)
I have a text file with blank lines fullfilled with spaces and others only containing the "Enter" caracter, the \012.
I would like to eliminate all them with the sed command.
Is it possible?
making: sed '/^$/d' <file should delete the blank lines but doesn't work for the lines that only... (2 Replies)
I have a file which contains blocks of text - each block is a multi-lines text delimited by blank lines eg.
<blank line>
several lines of text
...
pattern found on this line
several more lines of text
...
<blank line>
How do you delete the block of text (including the blank lines) when... (17 Replies)
Hi there,
I need help about using sed. Iam using sed to delete and print lines that match the port number as listed in sedfile. I am using -d and -p command for delete match port and print them respectively. However, the output is not synchonize where the total deleted lines is not similar with... (3 Replies)
First of all, I know this can be more eassily done with perl or other scripting languages but, that's not the issue. I need this in sed. (or wander if it's possible )
I got a file (trace file to recreate the control file from oracle for the dba boys)
which contains
some lines
another line... (11 Replies)
I have this input file that I need to remove lines which represents more than 30 days of processing.
Input file:
On 11/17/2009 at 12:30:00, Program started processing...argc=7
Total number of bytes in file being processed is 390
Message buffer of length=390 was allocated successfully... (1 Reply)
BASH in Solaris 10
I have a log file like below. Whenever the pattern ORA-39083 is encountered, I want to delete the line which has this pattern and 3 lines below it.
$ cat someLogfile.txt
ORA-39083: Object type OBJECT_GRANT failed to create with error:
ORA-01917: user or role 'CMPA' does... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys ,
I am having a file as stated below
File 1
sa0 -- i_core/i_core_apb/i_afe0_controller/U261/A
sa0 -- i_core/i_core_apb/i_afe0_controller/U265/Z
sa1 -- i_core/i_core_apb/i_afe0_controller/U265/A
sa1 -- i_core/i_core_apb/i_afe0_controller/U268/Z
sa1 -- ... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kshitij
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flipdiff
FLIPDIFF(1) Man pages FLIPDIFF(1)NAME
flipdiff - exchange the order of two incremental patches
SYNOPSIS
flipdiff [[-p n] | [--strip-match=n]] [[-U n] | [--unified=n]] [[-d PAT] | [--drop-context=PAT]] [[-q] | [--quiet]] [[-z] | [--decompress]]
[[-b] | [--ignore-space-change]] [[-B] | [--ignore-blank-lines]] [[-i] | [--ignore-case]] [[-w] | [--ignore-all-space]]
[--in-place] diff1 diff2
flipdiff {[--help] | [--version]}
DESCRIPTION
flipdiff exchanges the order of two patch files that apply one after the other. The patches must be "clean": the context lines must match
and there should be no mis-matched offsets.
The swapped patches are sent to standard output, with a marker line ("=== 8< === cut here === 8< ===") between them, unless the --in-place
option is passed. In that case, the output is written back to the original input files.
OPTIONS -p n, --strip-match=n
When comparing filenames, ignore the first n pathname components from both patches. (This is similar to the -p option to GNU patch(1).)
-q, --quiet
Quieter output. Don't emit rationale lines at the beginning of each patch.
-U n, --unified=n
Attempt to display n lines of context (requires at least n lines of context in both input files). (This is similar to the -U option to
GNU diff(1).)
-d pattern, --drop-context=PATTERN
Don't display any context on files that match the shell wildcard pattern. This option can be given multiple times.
Note that the interpretation of the shell wildcard pattern does not count slash characters or periods as special (in other words, no
flags are given to fnmatch). This is so that "*/basename"-type patterns can be given without limiting the number of pathname
components.
-i, --ignore-case
Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
-w, --ignore-all-space
Ignore whitespace changes in patches.
-b, --ignore-space-change
Ignore changes in the amount of whitespace.
-B, --ignore-blank-lines
Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
-z, --decompress
Decompress files with extensions .gz and .bz2.
--in-place
Write output to the original input files.
--help
Display a short usage message.
--version
Display the version number of flipdiff.
LIMITATIONS
This is only been very lightly tested, and may not even work. Using --in-place is not recommended at the moment.
There are some cases in which it is not possible to meaningfully flip patches without understanding the semantics of the content. This
program only uses complete lines that appear at some stage during the application of the two patches, and never composes a line from parts.
Because of this, it is generally a good idea to read through the output to check that it makes sense.
AUTHOR
Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
Package maintainer
patchutils 23 January 2009 FLIPDIFF(1)