I'm trying to do something pretty simple but its appears more complicated than expected... I've lines in a text file, separated by the comma and that I want to output to another file, without the first field.
This is what I need to do
I have a file that has a field with values like this
1111 2222
3333 4444
55555 666
333333333
444444444
I need for my command to out put only those fields that do not have spaces in them. So my output for the above file would be
333333333
444444444
how... (10 Replies)
Hello
I want to set two fields in a text file to be of size 20.
how to do it using unix ?
eg: ABC.txt
Name | City
I want Name and City both to be of size 20.
Also If I am pasting it in other file the byte size should be preserved.i.e. If I want to append content of ABC.txt to other... (0 Replies)
Preserve byte size of fields while pasting it to other file
Hello
I want to set two fields in a text file to be of size 20.
how to do it using unix ?
eg: ABC.txt
Name | City
I want Name and City both to be of size 20.
Also If I am pasting it in other file the byte size should be... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Does any one know how to avoid the scenario where awk ignores the fields having only spaces or empty fields?
for instance,
Data: "a","b","c","d",""," "
code:
awk -F, '{ print NF }' File
the output I get is 4 instead of 6 do you know how to avoid this? (6 Replies)
This seems to be a stupid basic question, but I cant get the space to stick in the awk variable.
I do use this command to grep a time range of the log file.
cat /var/log/daemon.log | awk '$0>=from&&$0<=to' from="$(date +%b" "%e" "%H:%M:%S -d -24hour)" to="$(date +%b" "%e" "%H:%M:%S)"
I now... (9 Replies)
Given a file:
# configuration file for newsyslog
# $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/ncvs/src/etc/newsyslog.conf,v 1.50 2005/03/02 00:40:55 brooks Exp $
#
# Entries which do not specify the '/pid_file' field will cause the
# syslogd process to be signalled when that log file is rotated. This
# action... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to read a file character by character,
#!/bin/bash
while read -n1 char; do
echo -e "$char\c"
done < /home/shak/testprogram/words
Newyork is a very good city.
Newyorkisaverygoodcityforliving
I need to preserve the spaces as thats an... (3 Replies)
In the below I am trying to use awk to match all the $13 values in input, which is tab-delimited,
that are in $1 of gene which is just a single column of text.
However only the line with the greatest $9 value in input needs to be printed.
So in the example below all the MECP2 and LTBP1... (0 Replies)
In the f1 file below I am trying to clean it up removing lines the have _tn_ in them. Next, removing the characters in $2 before the ninth /. Then I remove the ID_(digit- always 4). Finally, the charcters after and including the first _. It is curently doing most of it but the cut is removing $1... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT V7
diff
DIFF(1) General Commands Manual DIFF(1)NAME
diff - differential file comparator
SYNOPSIS
diff [ -efbh ] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
Diff tells what lines must be changed in two files to bring them into agreement. If file1 (file2) is `-', the standard input is used. If
file1 (file2) is a directory, then a file in that directory whose file-name is the same as the file-name of file2 (file1) is used. The
normal output contains lines of these forms:
n1 a n3,n4
n1,n2 d n3
n1,n2 c n3,n4
These lines resemble ed commands to convert file1 into file2. The numbers after the letters pertain to file2. In fact, by exchanging `a'
for `d' and reading backward one may ascertain equally how to convert file2 into file1. As in ed, identical pairs where n1 = n2 or n3 = n4
are abbreviated as a single number.
Following each of these lines come all the lines that are affected in the first file flagged by `<', then all the lines that are affected
in the second file flagged by `>'.
The -b option causes trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) to be ignored and other strings of blanks to compare equal.
The -e option produces a script of a, c and d commands for the editor ed, which will recreate file2 from file1. The -f option produces a
similar script, not useful with ed, in the opposite order. In connection with -e, the following shell program may help maintain multiple
versions of a file. Only an ancestral file ($1) and a chain of version-to-version ed scripts ($2,$3,...) made by diff need be on hand. A
`latest version' appears on the standard output.
(shift; cat $*; echo '1,$p') | ed - $1
Except in rare circumstances, diff finds a smallest sufficient set of file differences.
Option -h does a fast, half-hearted job. It works only when changed stretches are short and well separated, but does work on files of
unlimited length. Options -e and -f are unavailable with -h.
FILES
/tmp/d?????
/usr/lib/diffh for -h
SEE ALSO cmp(1), comm(1), ed(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 for no differences, 1 for some, 2 for trouble.
BUGS
Editing scripts produced under the -e or -f option are naive about creating lines consisting of a single `.'.
DIFF(1)