I am spooling a file from oracle and trying to delete the last line of the spooled file which I am unable to do.
Problem is that this file can have multiple records each time and I have no way of knowing how many because the amount can vary. I had an idea of using a while loop to read the... (1 Reply)
I am trying deleting lines from a text file using sed..
sed '/OBJECT="ABC/{N;N;N;d; }'
will do if i have to delete lines starting with Object and next 3 lines
but I was looking for a way to delet lines starting with OBJECT and all the lines till it reaches a blank lines ..or it reaches a... (8 Replies)
I have a very large log file and it speed up scrolling.
so I want to tail last 500 lies and see using vi editor.
tail -n 500 large_file | small_file | vi {};
this won't work.
I'm very novice on Unix.
TIA. (2 Replies)
I have a log file that I am processing. This contains messages from and to a server (requests and responses).
The responses to requests may not be in order i.e. we can have a response to a request after several requests are sent, and in some error cases there may not be any response message.
... (2 Replies)
Is it possible to delete lines by their number? Also, I'd like to delete the last 3 rows of a file too. So from the front and back. Thanks. (9 Replies)
hi all,
i have got a scenario in which i need to delete all the lines that ends with file names.
e.g.
input can be
cms/images/services_icons/callback.png
cms/cms/images/services_icons/sync.php
cms/cms/images/services_icons
and output should be
cms/cms/images/services_icons
... (13 Replies)
Hello, im using ex to manipulate some text. Im trying to delete all the lines except those on which a certain regex can be found.
the important part of the script:
ex temp << 'HERE'
g/regex/p
HERE
this command prints the lines I want to end up with, but it doesnt delete the others.... (2 Replies)
I have a directory question where I ask the user which entry he wants to delete...
echo "Which entry?"
read entry
sed '/^'$entry'/d' file
This code does in fact delete that particular entry...
HOWEVER, when I go to inquire about that same entry, it still populates like it was never... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
plan9-tail
TAIL(1) General Commands Manual TAIL(1)NAME
tail - deliver the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
tail [ +-number[lbc][rf] ] [ file ]
tail [ -fr ] [ -n nlines ] [ -c nbytes ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Tail copies the named file to the standard output beginning at a designated place. If no file is named, the standard input is copied.
Copying begins at position +number measured from the beginning, or -number from the end of the input. Number is counted in lines, 1K
blocks or bytes, according to the appended flag or Default is -10l (ten ell).
The further flag causes tail to print lines from the end of the file in reverse order; (follow) causes tail, after printing to the end, to
keep watch and print further data as it appears.
The second syntax is that promulgated by POSIX, where the numbers rather than the options are signed.
EXAMPLES
tail file
Print the last 10 lines of a file.
tail +0f file
Print a file, and continue to watch data accumulate as it grows.
sed 10q file
Print the first 10 lines of a file.
SOURCE
/src/cmd/tail.c
BUGS
Tails relative to the end of the file are treasured up in a buffer, and thus are limited in length.
According to custom, option +number counts lines from 1, and counts blocks and bytes from 0.
Tail is ignorant of UTF.
TAIL(1)