Read n lines from a text files getting n from within the text file
I dont even have a sample script cause I dont know where to start from. My data lookes like this
and so on. I need the sript to read the first line with text and use the #data value to determine how many lines to read below this text line, then read those lines of data, then read the next line with text and use the #data value to count how namy lines to read below that and so on.
To be honext I have no idea where to start from. And honestly I am not completely new to shell scripting but this has challenged me to the core. This is not an assignment, its for my rresearch work am a seniour lecturer in the department of physics at the university of zambia in lusaka, zambia. I hope it is doable.
The read data can be directed to a gnuplot ot output to a file.
I have a large list of filenames from an Excel sheet, which I then translate into a simple text file. I'd like to use this list, which contains various file extensions , to archive these files and then remove them recursively through multiple directories and subdirectories. So far, it looks like... (5 Replies)
Witam wszystkich ,
Jest to moj pierwszy post i już prośba ale gdybym potrafił zaradzić problemowi to nie zawracałbym nikomu głowy .
mianowicie :
Mam jakis 'plik' w ktorym są osadzone pojedyncze i zmienne słowa po jednym w lini czyli :
test1
tekttw
resst
.... itd.
Moje... (6 Replies)
hi all,
I have this file with some user data.
example:
$cat myfile.txt
FName|LName|Gender|Company|Branch|Bday|Salary|Age
aaaa|bbbb|male|cccc|dddd|19900814|15000|20|
eeee|asdg|male|gggg|ksgu|19911216|||
aara|bdbm|male|kkkk|acke|19931018||23|
asad|kfjg|male|kkkc|gkgg|19921213|14000|24|... (4 Replies)
I am attempting to insert multiple lines of text into a specific place in a text file based on the lines above or below it.
For example, Here is a portion of a zone file.
IN NS ns1.domain.tld.
IN NS ns2.domain.tld.
IN ... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to extract lines from a text file given a text file containing line numbers to be extracted from the first file. How do I go about doing this? Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hello I'm having a little difficulty in writing a shell script for a few simple tasks.
First I have two files "file1.txt" and "file2.txt" and I want to read and compare the last line of each file. The files look like this.
File1.txt
File2.txt
After comparing the two lines I would... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file ff.txt that looks as follows
*ABNA.txt
356
24
36
112
*AC24.txt
457
458
321
2
ABNA.txt and AC24.txt are the files in the folder named foo1. Based on the numbers in the ff.txt file, I want to extract the lines from the corresponding files in the foo1 folder and... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a huge file that has data something like shown below:
huge_file.txt
start regexp
Name=Name1
Title=Analyst
Address=Address1
Department=Finance
end regexp
some text
some text
start regexp
Name=Name2
Title=Controller
Address=Address2
Department=Finance
end regexp (7 Replies)
hi all,
trying this using shell/bash with sed/awk/grep
I have two files, one containing one column, the other containing multiple columns (comma delimited).
file1.txt
abc12345
def12345
ghi54321
...
file2.txt
abc1,text1,texta
abc,text2,textb
def123,text3,textc
gh,text4,textd... (6 Replies)