I have a file:
Fred
Fred
Fred
Jim
Fred
Jim
Jim
If sort is executed on the listed file, shouldn't the output be?:
Fred
Fred
Fred
Fred
Jim
Jim
Jim (3 Replies)
Does anyone have a quick and dirty way of performing a sort and uniq in perl?
How an array with data like:
this is bkupArr BOLADVICE_VN
this is bkupArr MLT6800PROD2A
this is bkupArr MLT6800PROD2A
this is bkupArr BOLADVICE_VN_7YR
this is bkupArr MLT6800PROD2A
I want to sort it... (4 Replies)
So, I have a file that has some duplicate lines. The file has a header line that I would like to keep at the top.
I could do this by extracting the header from the file, 'sort -u' the remaining lines, and recombine them. But they are quite big, so if there is a way to do it with a single... (1 Reply)
I have a file with list of redundant server names and want only unique ones of those.
I have used following command but still redudant ones are listing
$cat file|sort|uniq
where could be the problem.
Thanks,
Srinivas (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a large data file:
1234 8888 bbb
2745 8888 bbb
9489 8888 bbb
1234 8888 aaa
4838 8888 aaa
3977 8888 aaa
I need to remove duplicate lines (where the first column is the duplicate). I have been using:
sort file.txt | uniq -w4 > newfile.txt
However, it seems to keep the... (11 Replies)
Hi again,
I have files with the following contents
datetime,ip1,port1,ip2,port2,number
How would I find out how many times ip1 field shows up a particular file? Then how would I find out how many time ip1 and port 2 shows up?
Please mind the file may contain 100k lines. (8 Replies)
Platform :Oracle Linux 6.4
Shell : bash
The below file has 7 lines , some of them are duplicates. There are only 3 distinct lines. But why is the uniq command still showing 7 ?
I just want the distinct lines to be returned.
$ cat test.txt
SELECT FC.COORD_SET_ID FROM OM_ORDER_FLOW F, -... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
Need to pick your brains,
I have a 10Gb file where each row is a name, I am expecting about 50 names in total. So there are a lot of repetitions in clusters.
So I want to do a
sort -u file
Will it be considerably faster or slower to use a uniq before piping it to sort... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Below the actual file which i like to sort and Uniq -u
/opt/oracle/work/Antony/Shell_Script> cat emp.1st
2233|a.k. shukula |g.m. |sales |12/12/52 |6000
1006|chanchal singhvi |director |sales |03/09/38 |6700... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Antony Ankrose
8 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)