Ultimate goal is to delete lines from before and after a block of lines in a given file. First attempt was something like this:
but that deleted everything down to and including the line with STARTUP. I need to delete everything before that line.
next attempt was
But that appears to create 'fline' with spaces before and after the returned line number, which then causes sed to choke:
sed "/$titlesearch/d" movielist
will delete any line in the file movielist that matches $titlesearch, but this is only a screen print correct ?
how can I have sed to actually delete the line from the file so that it doesnt appear next time I open the file ?
thanks
Steffen (8 Replies)
Hello Experts,
I am working on a small file editing script. Since all experts here are very generous to give me the complete code, I would take up the problem in steps so that I ensure my opportunity to learn.
AIM: The script has some commented and some uncommented lines. I need to :
... (2 Replies)
I'm new to using sed and grep commands, but have found them extremely useful. However I am having a hard time figuring this one out:
Delete every line containing the word CEN and the next line as well.
ie. test.txt
blue
324 CEN
green
red
blue
324 CEN
green
red
blue
to produce:... (2 Replies)
awk '!(/^$/||/--/||/selected/||/^ *$/){print "A." $1 " <> B." $1 " or"}' infile
my AWK out put is :
A.KZ <> B.KZ or
A.KZT <> B.KZT or
A.KZ_Z <> B.KZ_Z or
A.LH <> B.LH or
A.MAN<> B.MAN or
A.OBJEKT <> B.OBJECT or
A.PAK <> B.PAK ;
is there any way to controle AWK to not print the... (1 Reply)
I want to delete a line between selected lines using sed:
e.g. : Between "bus" to "pins", delete lines conaining "signal" word.
Input :
bus
direction
signal new
signal old
pins
signal ok
end
Desired Output:
bus
direction
pins
signal
end (4 Replies)
Hello,
I want to delete all lines with given string in file1 and the string val is dynamic.
Can this be done using sed command.
Sample:
vars="test twinning yellow"
for i in $vars
do
grep $i file1
if
then
echo "Do Nothing"
else
sed `/$i/d` file1
fi
done
Using the above... (5 Replies)
Hello,
:wall:
I have a 12 column csv file. I wish to delete the entire line if column 7 = hello and column 12 = goodbye. I have tried everything that I can find in all of my ref books.
I know this does not work
/^*,*,*,*,*,*,"hello",*,*,*,*,"goodbye"/d
Any ideas?
Thanks
Please... (2 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve.. i have a file with below contents
cat fileName
blah blah blah
.
.DROP this
REJECT that
.
--sport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
--dport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
.
.
.
more blah blah blah
--dport 3306... (14 Replies)
Below is the output of a DB2 command. Now I have 2 requirements...
Database Partition 0 -- Database TESTDB1 -- Active Standby -- Up 213 days 02:33:07 -- Date 02/22/2016 17:04:50
HADR Information:
Role State SyncMode HeartBeatsMissed LogGapRunAvg (bytes)
Standby ... (2 Replies)
hello Team,
I want to delete below linux using sed command but I am getting error.sed -i '/url=/status.cgi?hostgroup=/d' 3
error:sed: -e expression #1, char 32: unknown option to `s'
Could you please help me with correct syntax.
My line contain / character because of that I am getting... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ghpradeep
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)