Eightball,
You said you want to delete two lines before the matched line and one line after the matched line, but your example deletes two lines before the match line and the matched line (leaving the line after the match as it was).
The script Ygor provided will provide output matching your example output, but only works on Linux systems (according to the man pages provided on this site, the tac utility is not available on OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OSX, or POSIX systems).
The following ed script should work on any of these systems:
save the above script in a file named edscript, make it executable by running the command:
and then (assuming the input file you specified in your example is named in, execute the command:
to make the changes suggested by the sample output you provided and save the output in a file named out.
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 files of more than 10K lines that I need to delete lines that contain a pattern, but I want to keep the first few lines intact. Can this be done with sed? (7 Replies)
I need to copy lines to a new file from files with sed using a pattern in char postions 1-3.
Then after the copy, I need to delete those same lines from the input files.
For example, string "ABC" in pos 1-3 (6 Replies)
Hello sed gurus. I am using ksh on Sun and have a file created by concatenating several other files. All files contain header rows. I just need to keep the first occurrence and remove all other header rows.
header for file
1111
2222
3333
header for file
1111
2222
3333
header for file... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to delete lines in /etc/hosts on few workstations, basically I want to delete all the lines for a list of machines like this :
for HOST in $(cat stations.lst |uniq)
do
# echo -n "$HOST"
if ping -c 1 $HOST > /dev/null 2>&1
then
HOSTNAME_val=`rsh $HOST "sed... (3 Replies)
Hi
Im trying to do the following in sed. I want to delete any blank line at the start of a file until it matches a pattern and then stops. for example:
Input
output:
I have got it to work within a range of two patterns with the following:
sed '/1/,/pattern/{/^]*$/d}'
The... (2 Replies)
Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted!
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
I have file which has got the following content
sam 123 LD 41
sam 234 kp
sam LD 41
kam pu
sam LD 61
Now... (1 Reply)
The intended result should be :
PDF converters
'empty line'
gpdftext and pdftotext?xml version="1.0"?>
xml:space="preserve"><note-content version="0.1" xmlns:/tomboy/link" xmlns:size="http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/size">PDF converters
gpdftext and pdftotext</note-content>... (9 Replies)
I have a file
Line 1 a
Line 22
Line 33
Line 1 b
Line 22
Line 1 c
Line 4
Line 5
I want to delete all lines before last occurrence of a line which contains something which is defined in a variable. Say a variable var contains 'Line 1', then I need the following in the output.
... (21 Replies)
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uniq
UNIQ(1) BSD General Commands Manual UNIQ(1)NAME
uniq -- report or filter out repeated lines in a file
SYNOPSIS
uniq [-cdu] [-f fields] [-s chars] [input_file [output_file]]
DESCRIPTION
The uniq utility reads the standard input comparing adjacent lines, and writes a copy of each unique input line to the standard output. The
second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent input lines are not written. Repeated lines in the input will not be detected if they are
not adjacent, so it may be necessary to sort the files first.
The following options are available:
-c Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.
-d Don't output lines that are not repeated in the input.
-f fields
Ignore the first fields in each input line when doing comparisons. A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from adja-
cent fields by blanks. Field numbers are one based, i.e. the first field is field one.
-s chars
Ignore the first chars characters in each input line when doing comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the -f option, the
first chars characters after the first fields fields will be ignored. Character numbers are one based, i.e. the first character is
character one.
-u Don't output lines that are repeated in the input.
If additional arguments are specified on the command line, the first such argument is used as the name of an input file, the second is used
as the name of an output file.
The uniq utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
The historic +number and -number options have been deprecated but are still supported in this implementation.
SEE ALSO sort(1)STANDARDS
The uniq utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
BSD January 6, 2007 BSD