1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I need to strip blank lines from the end of a file. I have searched and found topics on how to strip lines from the entirety of a file - however I need to limit this to only the last 3-4 lines. Any ideas? Thanks (4 Replies)

2. HP-UX

Hi Guys, :D I am very much new to UNIX. I dont have much basics of coding in UNIX, so please help me out of thi ssituation. I have a file say for ex: ABC.dtd and it contains "|" delimited data as test1|testing|test3|moving past1|runing|test4|going I need to add a column at the end... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file that contains the following lines the brown quick fox jumped over the white laze dog 0123456789 I wanted to put the contents of this file into a variable so I used this code: VAR_LIST=`cat $2` where $2 is the file name passed as an argument to the script If I... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a script that generates the following file named /tmp/rfkill: rf55 pts/13 Jul 10 06:38 (10.72.11.44) 15782 pts/13 5:07 b rf56 pts/15 Jul 10 06:53 (10.72.11.9) 18552 pts/15 0:28 b rf55 pts/39 Jul 10 09:12 (10.72.11.44) 19354 pts/39... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I have a file which contains comments,dotted lines(-------),actual records etc.I need to fetch only the actual records and put into a new file neglecting/deleting other rows.I have a header record too which contains the column names for the actual records.i need to discard this too.how... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

My input file is multiline file and I am writing a script to search for a pattern and move the line with the pattern and the next line to the end of the file. Since I am trying to learn awk, I thought I would try it. My input looks like the following: D #testpoint 1 510.0 D #testpoint2 ... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Is there any way in awk to put every line of a file in an array and so we can like this print the line we want. For example, if we have this file aaa eee bbb fff ccc ggg ddd hhh So we can print to the output the 3rd line only ccc ggg If it is possible, please put the... (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a text file with two coulmn first column is just used in to show the line number, these line number are not there in the real file. I want to delete the line 16(in this file) here, even tough there is no data inside it . this empty line is causing me a problem by throwing me garbage... (12 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I have a quetion which was already discussed in the forum, but for some reason all approches suggested fail for me. I have a file which have blank lines at the body of the text as well as at the end. I need to delete ONLY blank lines at the end. Unfortunatly the approach below does not... (5 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, this is my first post so I don't know if I am doing this right. I would like to append entries from a series of strings (contained in a text file) consecutively at the end of specifically labeled lines in another file. As an example: - the file that contains the values to be... (3 Replies)