Hello!
I'm trying to find out the total file size of a subset list in a directory. For example, I do not need to know the total file size of all the files in a directory, but I need to know what the total size is of say, "ls -l *FEB08*" in a directory. Is there any easy way of doing this?
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Hi All,
I have some 6000 text files in a directory. My files are named like 1.txt, 2.txt 3.txt and so on until 6000.txt. I want to count the "number of words" in only first 3000 of them. Any suggestions?
I know wc -w can count the number of words in a text file. I am using Red Hat Linux. (3 Replies)
OK, I am stumpped. I have this shell Script that I want to randomly select a file with the extention of .sct. Then using a portion of its file name select the six related .mot files. Then move them all to another folder. I also need a user input form for the number of .SCT files to randomly select... (6 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a file lik below: n of row=420, n of letters in each row=100000 like below: there is no space between the letters.
what I want is: the 75000th letter to the 85000th letter in each row.
how to do that? thanks a lot!
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Hi,
I'd like to swap the columns 1 and 2 of a space-delimited text file but only for the first 1000 rows. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hello Unix experts,
I need a help to create a subset file. I know with cut comand, its very easy to select many different columns, or threshold. But here I have a bit problem as in my data file is big. And I don't want to identify the column numbers or names manually. I am trying to find any... (7 Replies)
Need to use dd to generate a large file from a sample file of random data. This is because I don't have /dev/urandom.
I create a named pipe then:
dd if=mynamed.fifo do=myfile.fifo bs=1024 count=1024
but when I cat a file to the fifo that's 1024 random bytes:
cat randomfile.txt >... (7 Replies)
In the below awk if I use the attached file as the input, I get no results for TCF4. However, if I just copy that line from the attached file and use that as input I get results for TCF4.
Basically the gene file is a 1 column list that is used to filter $8 of the attached file. When there is a... (9 Replies)