I am spooling a file from oracle and trying to delete the last line of the spooled file which I am unable to do.
Problem is that this file can have multiple records each time and I have no way of knowing how many because the amount can vary. I had an idea of using a while loop to read the... (1 Reply)
I am trying deleting lines from a text file using sed..
sed '/OBJECT="ABC/{N;N;N;d; }'
will do if i have to delete lines starting with Object and next 3 lines
but I was looking for a way to delet lines starting with OBJECT and all the lines till it reaches a blank lines ..or it reaches a... (8 Replies)
Hi
I have a file & always I need to remove or delete last 2 lines from that file. So in a file if I have 10 lines then it should return me first 8 lines.
Can someone help me? (4 Replies)
I have a file with 65 sets of 35 coordinates, and would like to isolate these coordinates so that I can easily copy the coordinates to another file. The problem is, I've got a 9 line header before each set of coordinates (so each set is 44 lines long). There are a zillion threads out there about... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to extract lines bsed on pattern matching../mp straight-flow/
Extracted output should be saved in meta_string , but the code is not working in that manner,saving repeated lines. can anyone please suggest where am i going wrong.
/mp straight-flow/ {... (6 Replies)
I have a log file that I am processing. This contains messages from and to a server (requests and responses).
The responses to requests may not be in order i.e. we can have a response to a request after several requests are sent, and in some error cases there may not be any response message.
... (2 Replies)
hi all,
i have got a scenario in which i need to delete all the lines that ends with file names.
e.g.
input can be
cms/images/services_icons/callback.png
cms/cms/images/services_icons/sync.php
cms/cms/images/services_icons
and output should be
cms/cms/images/services_icons
... (13 Replies)
Hello, im using ex to manipulate some text. Im trying to delete all the lines except those on which a certain regex can be found.
the important part of the script:
ex temp << 'HERE'
g/regex/p
HERE
this command prints the lines I want to end up with, but it doesnt delete the others.... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to write a script which first check the line counts of a file if its more than 500 it deletes rest except the last 500..
I tried sed but it looks sed counts line numbers from the head & not from tail.. May be I need a wc -l frist then apply if statement & pass on the line count... (17 Replies)
Say you want to clear your .bash_history except for the first 25 lines. Try:
sed -i -e 26,500d .bash_historyI have a some frequently-used routines parked in the first few lines, and they kept getting overwritten by more recent commands. (2 Replies)
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fmt(1) General Commands Manual fmt(1)NAME
fmt - format text
SYNOPSIS
width] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
The command is a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines to produce output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in
the width option. The default width is 72. concatenates the arguments. If none are given, formats text from the standard input.
Blank lines are preserved in the output, as is the spacing between words. does not fill lines beginning with a period for compatibility
with Nor does it fill lines starting with
Indentation is preserved in the output and input lines with differing indentation are not joined (unless is used).
can also be used as an in-line text filter for the command:
reformats the text between the cursor location and the end of the paragraph.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Crown margin mode.
Preserve the indentation of the first two lines within a paragraph and align the left margin of each subsequent line with that
of the second line. This is useful for tagged paragraphs.
Split lines only.
Do not join short lines to form longer ones. This prevents sample lines of code, and other such "formatted" text, from being
unduly combined.
Fill output lines to up to
width columns.
WARNINGS
The width option is acceptable for BSD compatibility, but it may go away in future releases.
SEE ALSO nroff(1), vi(1).
fmt(1)