IMHO @drl's solution in post #15 nearly fulfils the requirement.
Reading between the lines, we are again presented with a faulty solution without a definition of the actual problem.
Taking into account Corona688's comment about inodes, this code would be safer on most unix/Linux Operating Systems:
I have used a similar code construct (albeit with grep -v)to remove persistent irrelevant entries from a system log where it was causing unwanted alerts (pending a fix).
Hi experts,
in my solaris 9 the file- /var/adm/messeages growin too first. by 24 hours 40MB. And always giving the below messages--
bash-2.05# tail -f messages
Nov 9 16:35:38 ME1 last message repeated 1 time
Nov 9 16:35:38 ME1 ftpd: wtmpx /var/adm/wtmpx No such file or directory
Nov 9... (7 Replies)
I have a file with 28,00,000 lines of rows in this the first 80 lines will be chunks .
I want to delete the chunks of 80 lines. I tried tail -f2799920 filename.
is there any efficient way to do this.
Thanks in advance. (7 Replies)
Input:
a
b
b
c
d
d
I need:
a
c
I know how to get this (the lines that have duplicates) :
b
d
sort file | uniq -d
But i need opossite of this. I have searched the forum and other places as well, but have found solution for everything except this variant of the problem. (3 Replies)
I have a command which prints #lines after and before the search string in the huge file
nawk 'c-->0;$0~s{if(b)for(c=b+1;c>1;c--)print r;print;c=a}b{r=$0}' b=0 a=10 s="STRING1" FILE
The file is 5 gig big.
It works great and prints 10 lines after the lines which contains search string in... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have a big (2.7 GB) text file. Each lines has '|' saperator to saperate each columns.
I want to delete those lines which has text like '|0|0|0|0|0'
I tried:
sed '/|0|0|0|0|0/d' test.txt
Unfortunately, it scans the file but does nothing.
file content sample:... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a very huge file (4GB) which has duplicate lines. I want to delete duplicate lines leaving unique lines. Sort, uniq, awk '!x++' are not working as its running out of buffer space.
I dont know if this works : I want to read each line of the File in a For Loop, and want to... (16 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a big file (about 6 millions rows) and I have to delete same occurrences, stored in a small file (about 9000 rews). I have tried this:
while read line
do
grep -v $line big_file > ok_file.tmp
mv ok_file.tmp big_file
done < small_file
It works, but is very slow.
How... (2 Replies)
Hi,
To load a big file in a table,I have a make sure that all rows in the file has same number of the columns .
So in my file if I am getting any rows which have columns not equal to 6 , I need to delete it . Delimiter is space and columns are optionally enclosed by "".
This can be ... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am trying to get some lines from a file i did it with while-do-loop. since the files are huge it is taking much time. now i want to make it faster.
The requirement is the file will be having 1 million lines.
The format is like below.
##transaction, , , ,blah, blah... (38 Replies)
Dear all,
I have stuck with this problem for some days.
I have a very big file, this file can not open by vi command.
There are 200 loops in this file, in each loop will have one line like this:
GWA quasiparticle energy with Z factor (eV)
And I need 98 lines next after this line.
Is... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: phamnu
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strclean
strclean(1M)strclean(1M)NAME
strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files
SYNOPSIS
logdir] age]
DESCRIPTION
cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7). If
the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory. If the option is not used to specify
another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days.
Options
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
Specifies a directory for the location of the
STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory
Specifies a maximum age in days for the
STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3.
EXAMPLES
Remove day-old error log files from a directory called
FILES
One or more error log file or files on which operates. The mm-dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con-
tained in the file.
NLS catalog for
SEE ALSO strerr(1M), strlog(7).
strclean(1M)