I am using Unix as my OS on my server and would like to format my hard drive. How do I go about wiping my hard drive or is there a removal tool that I can use? (1 Reply)
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I need to make sure that our old Sun Sparcstations and Servers are clear of any Confidential data before I return them...
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I'm formatting the discs to make sure that there's nothing obvious, but would... (5 Replies)
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I have a problem with the sort and duplicate filter command I am using in one of my scripts. I have a '|' delimited file and want to sort and remove duplicates on the 1,2,15 fields. These fields constitute the primary key of the table I will be loading the data into. But I see that some... (4 Replies)
I have a file which consists of 1000 entries. Out of 1000 entries i have 500 Duplicate Entires. I want to remove the first Duplicate Entry (i,e entire Line) in the File.
The example of the File is shown below:
8244100010143276|MARISOL CARO||MORALES|HSD768|CARR 430 KM 1.7 ... (1 Reply)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
remove all files and only files that the first three characters start with numerals.
2. Relevant commands,... (6 Replies)
I have a multi-line string I'm trying to do some clean-up on.
Example:
1|575|67866|"fgnhdgj"|"afhgajh
agfajgf
ahfjhgfk
ahfkhf"|568
2|56|5435|"mayank"|"gupta
gdja
agdjagf"|677
3|5666|5435|"mayank"|"gupta
gdja
agdjagf"|677
I need a shell script that replace all \n under " ". (11 Replies)
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In a file, I have to mark duplicate records as 'D' and the latest record alone as 'C'.
In the below file, I have to identify if duplicate records are there or not based on Man_ID, Man_DT, Ship_ID and I have to mark the record with latest Ship_DT as "C" and other as "D" (I have to create... (7 Replies)
I'm looking to remove duplicate rows from a CSV file with a twist.
The first row is a header.
There are 31 columns. I want to remove duplicates when the first 29 rows are identical ignoring row 30 and 31 BUT the duplicate that is kept should have the shortest total character length in rows 30... (6 Replies)
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I have a script that builds a database ~30 million lines, ~3.7 GB .cvs file. After multiple optimzations It takes about 62 min to bring in and parse all the files and used to take 10 min to remove duplicates until I was requested to add another column. I am using the highly optimized awk code:
awk... (34 Replies)