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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read n lines from a text files getting n from within the text file Post 302852993 by Don Cragun on Thursday 12th of September 2013 11:56:43 PM
Old 09-13-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
Good points Don Cragun, my assumption was that the value in the data line was less than then number of lines and any additional lines need to be discarded.

In my solution, any processing could be done in the NR <=R block:

Code:
awk -F: '/#data/ { R=NR+$2} NR<=R { "Any processing code here"; print }' infile

Understood.

The O.P. said the output "can be directed to a gnuplot ot (sic) output to a file.", but didn't specify any options for gnuplot and didn't specify filenames nor whether the headers should be included in the files or stripped from the files. There is no gnuplot man page in the Man Pages section of this forum, but some references I found said that it is very picky about having its input in tab separated fields (and the data lines given in the sample input have no tabs). Should all data be sent to one instantiation of gnuplot or should the data under each header be sent to a different instantiation of gnuplot?

I don't think I can do much more until we get a clarification on the requirements.
 

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uniq(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   uniq(1)

Name
       uniq - report repeated lines in a file

Syntax
       uniq [-udc[+n][-n]] [input[output]]

Description
       The  command  reads  the  input	file comparing adjacent lines.	In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are
       removed; the remainder is written on the output file.  Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found.  For further  infor-
       mation, see

Options
       The n arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison:

       -n Skips specified number of fields.  A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters separated by tabs and spaces from its
	  neighbors.

       +n Skips specified number of characters in addition to fields.  Fields are skipped before characters.

       -c Displays number of repetitions, if any, for each line.

       -d Displays only lines that were repeated.

       -u Displays only unique (nonrepeated) lines.

       If the -u flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated in the original file are output.  The -d option specifies  that  one  copy	of
       just the repeated lines is to be written.  The normal mode output is the union of the -u and -d mode outputs.

       The  -c option supersedes -u and -d and generates an output report in default style but with each line preceded by a count of the number of
       times it occurred.

See Also
       comm(1), sort(1)

																	   uniq(1)
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