I have a file which has some lines starting with a particular word. I would like to delete 5 lines before each such line containing that particular word.
eg:
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6
"particular word"...
I would like to delete line2-line6 and all such occurences in that... (4 Replies)
Hello!
I need to delete one line in a file which matches one very precise instance of a string only. When searching the forum I unfortunately only found a solution which would delete each line on which a particular string occurs.
Let's assume I have a file composed of thousands of lines... (4 Replies)
I want to delete all lines from a file (orig_file) that contain the regex values (bad_inv_list)
I tried a for each loop with sed but it isn't working
for file in `cat bad_inv_list`;
do
sed '/$file/d' orig_file > pared_down_file.1
mv pared_down_file.1 orig_file
done
I've added... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file filled with dates, such as:
04-08-2011 message
04-08-2011 message
03-08-2011 message
01-08-2011 message
31-07-2011 message
24-07-2011 message
15-07-2011 message
13-12-2008 message
26-11-2007 message
And I want to delete those lines whose date is older than 10... (5 Replies)
I have a big file having 100 K lines.
I have to read each line and see at 356 character position whethere there is a word "W" in it. If it is their then don't delete the line otherwise delete it.
There are two lines as one Header and one trailer which should remain same.
Can somebody... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with 20 columns of data and hundreds of lines of the same format.
Here is an example line. The data repeats underneath with the same format.
15 1 4 GLY - 1 65 LYSH 23 N - 24 H - 634 O 0.188 157.552 487 48.70I have been sorting this data by hand but I was wondering if I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to search for some number and from that line, i need to delete the 5th line exactly.
Eg:
Consider below as text file data:
10000
a
b
c
d
e
.
.
.
10000
w
q
t (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Gautham
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unbuffer
UNBUFFER(1) General Commands Manual UNBUFFER(1)NAME
unbuffer - unbuffer output
SYNOPSIS
unbuffer program [ args ]
INTRODUCTION
unbuffer disables the output buffering that occurs when program output is redirected from non-interactive programs. For example, suppose
you are watching the output from a fifo by running it through od and then more.
od -c /tmp/fifo | more
You will not see anything until a full page of output has been produced.
You can disable this automatic buffering as follows:
unbuffer od -c /tmp/fifo | more
Normally, unbuffer does not read from stdin. This simplifies use of unbuffer in some situations. To use unbuffer in a pipeline, use the
-p flag. Example:
process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3
CAVEATS
unbuffer -p may appear to work incorrectly if a process feeding input to unbuffer exits. Consider:
process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3
If process1 exits, process2 may not yet have finished. It is impossible for unbuffer to know long to wait for process2 and process2 may
not ever finish, for example, if it is a filter. For expediency, unbuffer simply exits when it encounters an EOF from either its input or
process2.
In order to have a version of unbuffer that worked in all situations, an oracle would be necessary. If you want an application-specific
solution, workarounds or hand-coded Expect may be more suitable. For example, the following example shows how to allow grep to finish pro-
cessing when the cat before it finishes first. Using cat to feed grep would never require unbuffer in real life. It is merely a place-
holder for some imaginary process that may or may not finish. Similarly, the final cat at the end of the pipeline is also a placeholder
for another process.
$ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | grep abc | cat
abcdef
xxxabc defxxx
$ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | unbuffer grep abc | cat
$ (cat /tmp/abcdef.log ; sleep 1) | unbuffer grep abc | cat
abcdef
xxxabc defxxx
$
BUGS
The man page is longer than the program.
SEE ALSO
"Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs" by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995.
AUTHOR
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology
1 June 1994 UNBUFFER(1)