How does one do a search for a multiline regular experssion and output the results to a file.
I know this won't work since grep only searches single lines:
egrep '<a>.*?</a>' source.xml > output.xml
Here are some sample patterns I'd like to match and output to a single file:
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Hi Gurus,
I have a file say for ex. file1 which has 3500 lines in it which are different account numbers and another file (file2) which has 230000 lines in it. I want to read all the lines in file1 and delete all those lines from file2 which has that same pattern as in file1. I am not quite... (4 Replies)
My shell is csh and it is required.
I have a file like sample.txt
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a b c
d
e
f
g h i
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I want set the file to a variable and print it out in the same format.
I have tried something like this, but not succed.
% cat ~/tmp/sample.txt
a b c
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I have a file that looks something like this with lots of text before and after.
Distance method: Sum of squared size difference (RST)
</data> <pairwiseDifferenceMatrix time="02/08/11 at 13:08:27">
1 2
1 448.82151 507.94231
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Hey everyone, I'm new to sed and I need to create a script for inserting one line of code at the beginning of every method in a Xcode project (over 6,000 methods). Each method Structure is
(+ or -) (Various declarations-- could span multiple lines) ({)
I've tried for days, any guidance would be... (2 Replies)
As per my requirement, I need to get a multiline input. It can be stored in a file, that's not a problem. User will be prompted to enter steps. he should able to enter the steps in multiple lines by pressing enter.
All I know in read command that reads the input till we press enter. Can someone... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to extract some patterns from a line. The input file is space delimited and i could not use column to get value after "IN" or "OUT" patterns as there could be multiple white spaces before the next digits that i need to print in the output file . I need to print 3 patterns in a... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am fairly comfortable with using the sed command if the string to be replaced is all on a single line.
I was wondering is it possible to use sed command in a multiline way ?
Say for example I have the below string on 2 different lines:
{
"key": "brandNameA",
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Hello.
For a given folder, I want to select any files find $PATH1 -f \( -name "*" but omit any files like pattern name ! -iname "*.jpg" ! -iname "*.xsession*" ..... \) and also omit any subfolder like pattern name -type d \( -name "/etc/gconf/gconf.*" -o -name "*cache*" -o -name "*Cache*" -o... (2 Replies)