I have some sample names. The regions in red are what I want to extract.
Each of the sample names are represented as variable ${SAMPLE} within a loop. I've tried extracting the middle region with the following code (and many other things), but I can't seem to get it to cut. What needs be fixed?
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-13-2013 at 01:29 PM..
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Happy New Year!!!
I'm trying to cut out some text in a data file where I only want the first line and the last line.
For example.
1. Colin Was here <<-- Text I want to cut out
2. THIS IS THE TEXT I WANT TO CUT <- CUT THIS OUT
3. OUT BECAUSE IT'S NO GOOD TO ME <- CUT THIS OUT
4. I... (5 Replies)
Hi.
I've posted a couple of questions on my little project before, and it's been helpful, but things just keep changing on my end.
Allow me to explain.
I'm getting hundreds of .txt files, each containing the results of a database search from a newspaper. EAch file contains the news stories... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying following:echo "test line XA24433 test" | sed 's/.*X\(.*\)/X\1/'
XA24433 test While I want the output as: XA24433
I want to grab the words starting with letter X till the next space, this word can be anywhere in the line. (9 Replies)
Hi!
I'm trying to write a regexp but I have no luck...
I have a string like this:
param1=sometext¶m2=hello¶m3=bye
Also, the string can be simply:
param2=hello
I want to return the value of param2: "hello".
How can I do this?
Thanks. (3 Replies)
please consider this:
echo "11111*X*005010X279~ST*270*1111111*005010X279~BHT*0011*11" | sed 's/.*\(005010X(\d)(\d)(\d)*\).*$/\1/'i'm searching for first occurrence of 005010X while leaving rest of characters out.
:confused:
any tips? thnx in advance guys. (7 Replies)
Hi ,
I am learing sed
echo abc 123 def 456 | sed 's|\(*\) \(*\)|\1|'
is returning abc def 456
i was hoping abc def "\1" should only print the occurence of the first pattern
but according to my understanding it is just removing the first occurence of the second pattern... (7 Replies)
Hello All,
I'm trying to extract the lines between two consecutive elements of an array from a file.
My array looks like:
problem_arr=(PRS111 PRS213 PRS234)
j=0
while } ]
do
k=`expr $j + 1`
sed -n "/${problem_arr}/,/${problem_arr}/p" problemid.txt
---some operation goes... (11 Replies)
Hello All,
I have something like below
LDC100/rel/prod/libinactrl.a
LAA2000/rel/prod/libinactrl.a
I want to remove till first forward slash that is outputshould be as below
rel/prod/libinactrl.a
rel/prod/libinactrl.a
How can I do that ??? (8 Replies)
I am learning SED and just following the shell scripting book, i have trouble understanding the grep and sed statement,
Question : 1
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/opt/oracle/work/antony>cat teledir.txt
jai sharma 25853670
chanchal singhvi 9831545629
anil aggarwal 9830263298
shyam saksena 23217847
lalit... (7 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)