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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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)