Actually I think I have a better understanding of what I'm after now. I wrote out some psuedo code with what I'm trying to do but am unsure how to get each line from a file and send each line to the script.
I apologize for before. What I wrote was kind of confusing and even I didn't fully understand what I was trying accomplish. Now I am sure what I want to do.
Last edited by tastybrownies; 04-13-2013 at 07:51 PM..
Reason: edited
I have a file that has a list of numbers in it. Each line has a different number. I am trying to create some sort of loop within a script that will pick the numbers up on lines 1 and 2 and then put those figures into the script. It then goes through the process then loops back and reads lines 2 and... (5 Replies)
How can I exclude reading lines in a file that contains the following:
filesystem:/home/pach/liv_patches 128005120 88456640 37270758 71% /home/patches
That is, all lines that contain and begins with filesystem: should not be processed/read from a file (5 Replies)
How can i have a while loop as follows
while read inputline
do
<task>
done < name_list
and also store the values (delimited) on each line to temp variables so as to print them on screen as follows
while read inputline
do
set name | cut -d "," -f1 name_list # #i know this is not... (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
I am tryin to read a file and while doing so i need to skip the lines which start with a hash (#) char.
I thought of using a goto command but a lot of guys on this site say its not the good way to program. Moreover I am using a ksh shell which deos not support goto command.
... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I jut use a loop to read lines from the user and redirect it to a file.
echo "Enter the line"
while read -r LINE
do
echo $LINE >> FILE
if ;then
break
fi
done
input
app... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am trying to extract lines from a text file given a text file containing line numbers to be extracted from the first file. How do I go about doing this? Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hello, I am new in shell scripting. I need help regarding following.
I have 4 files generated by backups daily. I have stored the names of these 4 files into one file. i.e I have 4 files names as a, b, c & d and these names have been put into one file abcd.txt.
Now I want to cat each file in... (7 Replies)
Hello Team,
I have 2 files.one contains english text and another contains Japanese. so i have to read english text and replace the text with Japanesh text in third file.
Basically, I need a help to write japanese language in text/xml file.I heard wstring does this.Not sure how do i write... (2 Replies)
hi all,
trying this using shell/bash with sed/awk/grep
I have two files, one containing one column, the other containing multiple columns (comma delimited).
file1.txt
abc12345
def12345
ghi54321
...
file2.txt
abc1,text1,texta
abc,text2,textb
def123,text3,textc
gh,text4,textd... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: shogun1970
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
diff
DIFF(1) General Commands Manual DIFF(1)NAME
diff - differential file comparator
SYNOPSIS
diff [ -efbwr ] file1 ... file2
DESCRIPTION
Diff tells what lines must be changed in two files to bring them into agreement. If one file is a directory, then a file in that directory
with basename the same as that of the other file is used. If both files are directories, similarly named files in the two directories are
compared by the method of diff for text files and cmp(1) otherwise. If more than two file names are given, then each argument is compared
to the last argument as above. The -r option causes diff to process similarly named subdirectories recursively. The normal output con-
tains lines of these forms:
n1 a n3,n4
n1,n2 d n3
n1,n2 c n3,n4
These lines resemble ed commands to convert file1 into file2. The numbers after the letters pertain to file2. In fact, by exchanging `a'
for `d' and reading backward one may ascertain equally how to convert file2 into file1. As in ed, identical pairs where n1 = n2 or n3 = n4
are abbreviated as a single number.
Following each of these lines come all the lines that are affected in the first file flagged by `<', then all the lines that are affected
in the second file flagged by `>'.
The -b option causes trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) to be ignored and other strings of blanks to compare equal. The -w option causes
all white-space to be removed from input lines before applying the difference algorithm.
The -e option produces a script of a, c and d commands for the editor ed, which will recreate file2 from file1. The -f option produces a
similar script, not useful with ed, in the opposite order. It may, however, be useful as input to a stream-oriented post-processor.
Except in rare circumstances, diff finds a smallest sufficient set of file differences.
FILES
/tmp/diff[12]
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/diff
SEE ALSO cmp(1), ed(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is the empty string for no differences, for some, and for trouble.
BUGS
Editing scripts produced under the -e or -f option are naive about creating lines consisting of a single `.'.
When running diff on directories, the notion of what is a text file is open to debate.
DIFF(1)