the problem here is that your input does not have easily delimited paragraphs where sed or awk can quickly work ... it would have been quiet easy to awk "/WR25/,/^$/" sunnywebbox-summary.txt but the empty line immediately after the Device line kills that ... doing the original awk command line i suggested would work if you could just remove the second Device line like in awk "/WR25/,/WRHU/" sunnywebbox-summary.txt | grep -v WRHU but that would only work if you know which device follows in the report and the listed device is not the last in the list ...
anyways, the script below should work with or without an argument ... it really only uses sed to get the desired output but needed all the other lines to determine the sed reference addresses ... somebody here could probably script this in perl or awk better but at least you have something to start with ...
Quick question...I'm trying to grab the .tif file name from this output from our fax server. What is the best way i can do this in a bash script? I have been looking at regular expressions with bash or using awk but having some trouble. thanks! The only output i want is... (5 Replies)
hiii, Help me out..i have a huge set of data stored in a file.This file has has 2 columns which is latitude & longitude of a region. Now i have a program which asks for the number of points & based on this number it asks the user to enter that latitude & longitude values which are in the same... (7 Replies)
Hi folks;
I have a temperature sensor that configured with an IP address so we can open a browser to see the temperatures in our 3 labs all showing in one screen.
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Hi,
I have a file with one column data (sample below) and I am trying to write a shell script to calculate the difference between consecutive data valuse i.e
Var = Ni -N(i-1)
0.3141
-3.6595
0.9171
5.2001
3.5331
3.7022
-6.1087
-5.1039
-9.8144
1.6516
-2.725
3.982
7.769
8.88 (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am really stuck and I'm hoping somone can help. I have a text file that is similar to this:
<--First User-->
<function>account='uid=user1,.......
<--Second User-->
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If I have a txt file with
test.txt
somelineoftext
and I want to set that line of text to variable in a script:
so
#!/bin/bash
var=''
becomes
#!/bin/bash
var='somelineoftext' (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a Report.txt file. Say the contents of this file are :
1 2 3 4 5 7 df v g gf
e r dfkf lsdk dslsdklsdk
Report Start: xxxxxxdad
asdffsdfsdfsdfasfasdffasdf
sadfasdfsadffsfsdf Report End.
sdfasdfasdf
sdfasfdasdfasdfasdfasdf
sadfasdfsdf
I need to grab from Report Start... (3 Replies)
Hello there,
I am a beginner in Perl, and I have a challenging project:
I have to create a program that checks regularly on an online bank account for new operations, it should then feed a database keeping track of all the money going in and out.
Of course the login details of this online... (4 Replies)
I have a file full of coordinates of the form:
37.68899917602539 58.07500076293945 57.79100036621094
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I have tried to do this... (2 Replies)
I would like to grab complex html text between lines using variables. I am running Debian and using mksh shell.
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