awk - writing matching pattern to a new file and deleting it from the current file
Hello ,
I have comma delimited file with over 20 fileds that i need to do some validations on. I have to check if certain fields are null and then write the line containing the null field into a new file and then delete the line from the current file.
Can someone tell me how i could go about doing this?
The master file is file.out and the file that i am trying to write the lines with null records is called test_exc
Hi,
I need a script where I have delete all the files of type abc*.* from the directory /lmn/opq (passed as parameter to script)
But I need to check if there is file of type abc*.* existing in the directory or not before I use the
rm abc*.*
command.
Thanks (1 Reply)
say i have a file with the following contents
0x20
0x20
0xc23886
> 0xc12354
> 0xc567555555
i want to delete "> " pattern and keep the rest of the file (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Please can someone assist in the script I have made that searches a pattern in a file and delete the whole line containing the pattern.
#!bin/sh
# The pattern that user want to add to the files
echo "Enter the pattern of the redirect"
read value
# check if the user has... (1 Reply)
I've got a longish log file with content such as
Uplink traffic:
Downlink traffic:
I want to parse the log file and remove any line that contains the string "Uplink traffic:" at the beginning of the line, but only if the line following it beginnings with the string "Downlink traffic:" (in... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to to an ldapsearch and remove the shadow attributes in the output file.
What I do is ldapsearch() | operation to remove shadow > FILE
The ldapsearch gives output like this(with same line formation):
objectClass: FSConfig
objectClass: extensibleObject
fsCAIP:... (10 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have a text file like this
cat main.txt
I like this website
cat website > new_website
grep website > hello_website
cat replace.txt
hello
unix
apple
Now, for each line read in 2.txt, I want the pattern "website" in 1.txt to be replaced with it. Basically, I... (9 Replies)
Hi ladies and gentleman.. I have two text file with me. I need to replace one of the file content to another file if one both files have a matching pattern.
Example:
text1.txt:
ABCD 1234567,HELLO_WORLDA,HELLO_WORLDB
DCBA 3456789,HELLO_WORLDE,HELLO_WORLDF
text2.txt:
XXXX,ABCD... (25 Replies)
Hi,
I have input file whose first column needs(match.txt) to be matched with the first column of the input file with min & max length as defined in match.txt. But conditions are not matching. Please help on the changes in the code below as for multiple enteries in match.txt complete match.txt will... (3 Replies)
hi
I have a large xml file from which i have taken few lines . In this file I have to find for the string </invoices> and check if the 3 rd line after this string does not begin with <portCode> ,then i have to delete the string </invoices> and the next line having the string </shippingBill>... (13 Replies)
Hi
I need to do a patten match between files .
I am new to shell scripting and have come up with this so far. It take 50 seconds to process files of 2mb size . I need to tune this code as file size will be around 50mb and need to save time.
Main issue is that I need to search the pattern from... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nitin_daharwal
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
gmatch
gmatch(3GEN) String Pattern-Matching Library Functions gmatch(3GEN)NAME
gmatch - shell global pattern matching
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lgen [ library ... ]
#include <libgen.h>
int gmatch(const char *str, const char *pattern);
DESCRIPTION
gmatch() checks whether the null-terminated string str matches the null-terminated pattern string pattern. See the sh(1), section File
Name Generation, for a discussion of pattern matching. A backslash () is used as an escape character in pattern strings.
RETURN VALUES
gmatch() returns non-zero if the pattern matches the string, zero if the pattern does not.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Examples of gmatch() function.
In the following example, gmatch() returns non-zero (true) for all strings with "a" or "-" as their last character.
char *s;
gmatch (s, "*[a-]" )
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO sh(1), attributes(5)NOTES
When compiling multithreaded applications, the _REENTRANT flag must be defined on the compile line. This flag should only be used in mul-
tithreaded applications.
SunOS 5.10 29 Dec 1996 gmatch(3GEN)