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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading text file, comparing a value in a line, and placing only part of the line in a variable? Post 302840791 by RudiC on Tuesday 6th of August 2013 12:59:59 PM
Old 08-06-2013
Do I understand you correctly that you want the entire text file (= ALL lines), with ROW-D-01 removed, assigned to one variable? How many lines does your file consist of? Post a sample input file.
 

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PRUNEHISTORY(8) 					    InterNetNews Documentation						   PRUNEHISTORY(8)

NAME
prunehistory - Remove tokens from Usenet history file SYNOPSIS
prunehistory [-p] [-f filename] DESCRIPTION
prunehistory modifies a history(5)-format text file to "remove" a set of tokens from it. The tokens are removed by overwriting them with spaces, so that the size and position of any following entries does not change. This has an effect similar to expiring the article, in that it is still mentioned in the history database but cannot be retrieved. prunehistory reads the standard input. The input is taken as a set of lines. Blank lines and lines starting with a number sign ("#") are ignored. All other lines should consist of a message-ID followed by zero or more other fields (which are ignored). The message-ID is used as the dbz(3) key to get an offset into the text file. Since innd only appends to the text file, prunehistory does not need to have any interaction with it. OPTIONS
-p prunehistory will normally complain about lines that do not follow the correct format. If the -p flag is used, then the program will silently print any invalid lines on its standard output. (Blank lines and comment lines are also passed through.) This can be useful when prunehistory is used as a filter for other programs such as reap (a legacy program, probably no longer useful with current versions of INN, but still available at <ftp://ftp.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/.subdisc1/local/jk.collection/>). -f filename The default name of the history file is pathdb/history; to specify a different name, use the -f flag. HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien Elie. $Id: prunehistory.pod 8592 2009-08-20 23:46:25Z eagle $ SEE ALSO
dbz(3), history(5), innd(8). INN 2.5.2 2009-09-11 PRUNEHISTORY(8)
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