I don't think that the grep command is going to help because grep never changes the file.
You will need a sed command to read your input file, edit the data and produce a new corrected output file.
Best suggestion is to re-post in Shell Scripting after condensing your post to the basics.
The normal line terminator for text files in MACOS depends on the Operating System version. Please post the exact version of your O/S and state what is the normal line terminator in a text file for your version of MACOS. Please post an example input file and the expected output and explain the process concisely.
The output from this (coincidentally) sed command on a representative sample portion of the input file should clear up any ambiguities about the text file format and make the extraneous characters visible.
Last edited by methyl; 03-21-2012 at 10:54 AM..
Reason: try to be unambiguous
Hello everybody,
I have a sorted text file. some of the lines appear twice or even more. is there an unix utility that removes the extra appearences?
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---
10.9.16.116:
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
grep-excuses
GREP-EXCUSES(1) General Commands Manual GREP-EXCUSES(1)NAME
grep-excuses - search the testing excuses files for a specific maintainer
SYNOPSIS
grep-excuses [options] [maintainer|package]
DESCRIPTION
grep-excuses downloads the update_excuses.html file and greps it for the specified maintainer name. The libwww-perl package is required
for this script. If no name is given on the command line, first the environment variable DEBFULLNAME is used if it is defined, and failing
that, the configuration variable described below is used.
OPTIONS --no-conf, --noconf
Do not read any configuration files. This can only be used as the first option given on the command-line.
--wipnity, -w
Get information from <http://release.debian.org/migration/>. A package name must be given when using this option.
--help Show a brief usage message.
--version
Show version and copyright information.
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced in that order to set configuration variables. Command line
options can be used to override configuration file settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose. The currently
recognised variable is:
GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER
The default maintainer, email or package to grep for if none is specified on the command line.
SEE ALSO devscripts.conf(5).
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>; modifications by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.
DEBIAN Debian Utilities GREP-EXCUSES(1)