dirname is the command I was thinking of! However, it doesn't seem to be working properly when compared against a list of files. I tried throwing it in with the below while command, but it's just returning a leading period for each line.
I have a text file with rows of information (it is basically a ls command information(o/p from ls command))
I need to remove the lines ending with a .cnt extension and keep the lines ending with .zip extension, how to accomplish this.
I also only need the date,size and name of the file from every... (2 Replies)
Hi, I have multiple large files which consist of the below format:
I am trying to write an awk or sed script to remove all occurrences of the 00 record except the first and remove all of the 80 records except the last one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. (10 Replies)
Hi
This is my first post and I'm just a beginner. So please be nice to me.
I have a couple of html files where a pattern beginning with "http://www.site.com" and ending with "/resource.dat" is present on every 241st line. How do I extract this to a new text file?
I have tried sed -n 241,241p... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I have numerous files which have data in the following format
A|B|123.|Mr.|45.66|33|zz
L|16.|33.45|AC.|45.
I want to remove decimal point only if it is last character in a number.
O/p should be
A|B|123|Mr.|45.66|33|zz
L|16|33.45|AC.|45
I tried this
sed -e 's/.|/|/g'
Problem... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
Is there other way to Add text at start and ending of every line?
here my script:
cat file.txt |awk '{print "<p align=\"justify\">"$0"</p>"}'
but the problem they put including white spaces, I only need those line have a sentence or text not an skip all have empty string or have... (7 Replies)
Hello,
Here is my text data excerpted from the webpage:
input
My target is to get:
What i tried is:
sed 's/.*\(connector\)/1/' input > output
but all characters coming before the word "connector" are deleted which is not good for me.
My question: (9 Replies)
Hello experts,
I have a text file with lot of curly brackets (both opening { & closing } ). I need to delete them alongwith the text between opening & closing brackets' pair.
For ex: Input:-
59. Rh1 Qe4 {(Qf5-e4 Qd8-g8+ Kg6-f5
Qg8-h7+ Kf5-e5 Qh7-e7+ Ke5-f5 Qe7-d7+ Qe4-e6 Qd7-h7+ Qe6-g6... (6 Replies)
I have a file of a content like this:
abc_bla -def 800
abc_bla -def 802
abc_bla -def 804
abc_bla -def 806
abc_bla -def 808
abc_bla -def 810
abc_bla -def 812
abc_bla -def 814
...
abc_bla -def 898
abc_bla -def 900
abc_bla -def 902
abc_bla -def 904
...
abc_bla -def 990
abc_bla -def... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
dirname
DIRNAME(1) User Commands DIRNAME(1)NAME
dirname - strip last component from file name
SYNOPSIS
dirname [OPTION] NAME...
DESCRIPTION
Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed; if NAME contains no /'s, output '.' (meaning the current
directory).
-z, --zero
separate output with NUL rather than newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
dirname /usr/bin/
-> "/usr"
dirname dir1/str dir2/str
-> "dir1" followed by "dir2"
dirname stdio.h
-> "."
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report dirname translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 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 basename(1), readlink(1)
The full documentation for dirname is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dirname programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'dirname invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 DIRNAME(1)