Read in two lines at once with the "N" subcommand, then insert after the "\n", which is the newline separating the lines:
In case of files with uneven numbers of lines you will have to introduce a special rule for the last line ("$"), otherwise the last line will not be printed.
Hi, excuse me for my poor english.
My problem is that:
I have a File
i want to add to each line of that file two strings: one at the beginning of the line, one at the ending.
string1="abcd"
string2="efgh"
i want $string1 content $string2 for each line.
Is that possible? (3 Replies)
i want to print ODD lines like first ,third then fifth and so on
234,567,ABC,KJL
234,565,ABD,KJL
234,568,ABE,KJL
234,560,ABF,KJL
234,563,ABG,KJL
234,562,ABH,KJL
O/P will be like
234,567,ABC,KJL ----->first liine
234,568,ABE,KJL ----->third line
234,563,ABG,KJL ----->fifth line... (6 Replies)
I am very new to scripting and I know this request is simple but I am having no luck with it.
I have a file a.dat with the following data in it.
aa
bb
cc
dd
I need to run a script that will take each line of a.dat and put dsjc/ubin/ in front of each record, so the output looks like
... (2 Replies)
hi I am trying to use SED to replace the line matching a pattern using the command
sed 'pattern c\
new line
' <file1 >file 2
I got two questions
1. how do I insert a blank space at the beginning of new line?
2. how do I use this command to execute multiple command using the -e... (5 Replies)
Hi
I've been trying to search but couldn't quite get the answer I was looking for.
I have a a file that's like this
Time, 9/1/12
0:00, 1033
0:10, 1044
...
23:50, 1050
How do I make it so the file will be like this?
9/1/12, 0:00, 1033
9/1/12, 0:10, 1044
...
9/1/12, 23:50, 1050
I... (4 Replies)
i am trying to
insert text at the beginning of every even number line
with awk
i can do it with odd number lines
with this command
awk 'NR%2{$0="some text "$0}1' filehow can i edit this command
thanks (5 Replies)
Hello,
I'm here again asking for your precious help.
I'm writing some code to convert csv files to html.
I want to highlight header and also I want to have rows with alternate colors.
So far this is my work###Let's format first line only with some color
cat $fileIN".tmp1" | sed '1... (7 Replies)
Hi, I have been trying to see how i can insert a column in the beginning to my html table
This is how it looks
Name Age
Sid 32
John 33
Mary 34
I want to insert a column Job before Name column, so it looks like
Job Name Age
IT Sid 32
Doctor... (3 Replies)
I need to manipulate one Database file on Solaris 11 in which contains more than 5000 lines of data file path like this:
'/data1/oradata/DBNAME/system01.dbf',
'/data7/oradata/DBNAME/undotbs1_01.dbf',
'/data1/oradata/DBNAME/sysaux01.dbf',
'/data28/oradata/DBNAME/userdata01.dbf',
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: duke0001
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
nl
NL(1) User Commands NL(1)NAME
nl - number lines of files
SYNOPSIS
nl [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --body-numbering=STYLE
use STYLE for numbering body lines
-d, --section-delimiter=CC
use CC for separating logical pages
-f, --footer-numbering=STYLE
use STYLE for numbering footer lines
-h, --header-numbering=STYLE
use STYLE for numbering header lines
-i, --line-increment=NUMBER
line number increment at each line
-l, --join-blank-lines=NUMBER
group of NUMBER empty lines counted as one
-n, --number-format=FORMAT
insert line numbers according to FORMAT
-p, --no-renumber
do not reset line numbers at logical pages
-s, --number-separator=STRING
add STRING after (possible) line number
-v, --starting-line-number=NUMBER
first line number on each logical page
-w, --number-width=NUMBER
use NUMBER columns for line numbers
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn. CC are two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing second
character implies :. Type \ for . STYLE is one of:
a number all lines
t number only nonempty lines
n number no lines
pBRE number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular expression, BRE
FORMAT is one of:
ln left justified, no leading zeros
rn right justified, no leading zeros
rz right justified, leading zeros
AUTHOR
Written by Scott Bartram and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report nl bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report nl translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for nl is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nl programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info coreutils 'nl invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 NL(1)