Using echo with arbitrary text can produce unexpected results. It's best to use printf '%s\n' "$v1" .
Thanks for the reminder. I usually use my function: print like echo, because the name is shrtr, and uses printf -- but sometimes I forget ... cheers, drl
Hi,
There seems to some hack attempts in my site. I have attached the index page of my site and I need to remove the below lines from the index page. The below lines are at the center of the file.
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</style>
<script>E V A L( unescape(... (5 Replies)
All,
I have a text file with several entries like below:
personname
personname.domain.com
I know there is a way to use vi to remove only the personname.domain.com line. Can someone help? I believe that it involves /s/g/ something...I just can't remember the exact syntax.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi gurus,
i'm trying to remove a number of lines from a large file using the following command:
sed '1,5000d' oldfile > newfile
Somehow the lines in the old file are not deleted...
Am I doing this wrongly? Any suggestions? :confused:
Thanks! :)
wee (10 Replies)
A small question
I have a test.txt file
I have contents as:
a:google
b:yahoo
:
c:facebook
:
d:hotmail
How do I remove the line with :
my output should be
a:google
b:yahoo
c:facebook
d:hotmail (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm not a expert in shell programming, so i've come here to take help from u gurus.
I'm trying to tailor a csv file that i got to make it work for the LOAD FROM command.
I've a datatable csv of the below format -
--in file format
xx,xx,xx ,xx , , , , ,,xx,
xxxx,, ,, xxx,... (11 Replies)
Hey Gang-
I have a list of servers. I want to exclude servers that begin with and end with certain characters. Is there an easy command to do this?
Example
wvm1234dev
wvm1234pro
uvm1122dev
uvm1122bku
uvm1344dev
I want to exclude any lines that start with "wvm" OR "uvm" AND end... (7 Replies)
I have two files, a keepout.txt and a database.csv. They're unsorted, but could be sorted.
keepout:
user1
buser3
anuser19
notheruser27
database:
user1,2343,"information about",field,blah,34
user2,4231,"mo info",etc,stuff,43
notheruser27,4344,"hiya",thing,more thing,423... (4 Replies)
Hello everyone,
Although it seems easy, I've been stuck with this problem for a moment now and I can't figure out a way to get it done.
My problem is the following:
I have a file where each line is a sequence of IP addresses, example :
10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2
10.0.0.5 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2... (5 Replies)
I have been searching and trying to come up with an awk that will perform the following on a
converted text file (original is a pdf).
1. Since the first two lines are (begin with) text they are removed
2. if $1 is a number then all text is merged (combined) into one line until the next... (3 Replies)