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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an archive file that holds a batch of statements. I would like to be able to extract a certain statement based on the unique customer # (ie. 123456). The end for each statement is noted by "ENDSTM".
I can find the line number for the beginning of the statement section with sed.
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Discussion started by: andrewsc
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Input file
---------
12:name1:|host1|host1|host2|host1
13:name2:|host1|host1|host2|host3
14:name3:
......
Required output
---------------
12:name1:host1(2)|host1(1)
13:name2:host1(2)|host2(1)|host3(1)
14:name3:
where (x) - Count how many times field appears in last column
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Discussion started by: greycells
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with contents below
123,502
123,506
123,702
234,101
235,104
456,104
456,100
i want to sort such that i get a unique value in column A, and for those with multiple value in A, i want the lowest value in B.
output should be
123,502
234,101
235,104
456,100 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dealerso
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.
I have a tab separated file that has a couple nearly identical lines. When doing:
sort file | uniq > file.new
It passes through the nearly identical lines because, well, they still are unique.
a)
I want to look only at field x for uniqueness and if the content in field x is the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rocket_dog
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi friends,
I have multiple files. For now, let's say I have two of the following style
cat 1.txt
cat 2.txt
output.txt
Please note that my files are not sorted and in the output file I need another extra column that says the file from which it is coming. I have more than 100... (19 Replies)
Discussion started by: jacobs.smith
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have 84 files with the following names splitseqs.1, spliseqs.2 etc.
and I want to change the .number to a unique filename.
E.g.
change splitseqs.1 into splitseqs.7114_1#24
and
change spliseqs.2 into splitseqs.7067_2#4
So all the current file names are unique, so are the new file names.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: avonm
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I have the following file, which is a 3 column tab-delineated.
cat big 24
cat small 13
cat red 63
dog big 34
chicken plays 39
fish red 294
I would like to print only those lines, in which the value in Col2 is repeated. Thus, given the above input file, the desired... (7 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have an input file that I have sorted in a previous stage by $1 and $4. I now need something that will take the first record from each group of data based on the key being $1
Input file
1000AAA|"ZZZ"|"Date"|"1"|"Y"|"ABC"|""|AA
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9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
For some reason I am having difficulty performing what should be a fairly easy task. I would like to print lines of a file that have a unique value in the first field. For example, I have a large data-set with the following excerpt:
PS003,001 MZMWR/ L-DWD// *
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10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I have a directory of files, I can show the number of lines in each file and order them from lowest to highest with:
wc -l *|sort
15263 Image.txt
16401 reference.txt
40459 richtexteditor.txt
How can I also print the number of unique lines in each file?
15263 1401 Image.txt
16401... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: spacegoose
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UNIQ(1) BSD General Commands Manual UNIQ(1)
NAME
uniq -- report or filter out repeated lines in a file
SYNOPSIS
uniq [-c | -d | -u] [-i] [-f num] [-s chars] [input_file [output_file]]
DESCRIPTION
The uniq utility reads the specified input_file comparing adjacent lines, and writes a copy of each unique input line to the output_file. If
input_file is a single dash ('-') or absent, the standard input is read. If output_file is absent, standard output is used for output. The
second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent input lines are not written. Repeated lines in the input will not be detected if they are
not adjacent, so it may be necessary to sort the files first.
The following options are available:
-c Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.
-d Only output lines that are repeated in the input.
-f num Ignore the first num fields in each input line when doing comparisons. A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from
adjacent fields by blanks. Field numbers are one based, i.e., the first field is field one.
-s chars
Ignore the first chars characters in each input line when doing comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the -f option, the
first chars characters after the first num fields will be ignored. Character numbers are one based, i.e., the first character is
character one.
-u Only output lines that are not repeated in the input.
-i Case insensitive comparison of lines.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of uniq as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The uniq utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
The historic +number and -number options have been deprecated but are still supported in this implementation.
SEE ALSO
sort(1)
STANDARDS
The uniq utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002.
HISTORY
A uniq command appeared in Version 3 AT&T UNIX.
BSD
December 17, 2009 BSD