When the question is "grep and", awk is usually the answer. It has a language statement especially built for 'if this line matches this regex, do x'.
This program checks what fields belong where depending on the header in the file you give it, and the header you give it in OUT=. This lets you use the exact same program on either format.
I have a file name called fruits.
In this file the prices keep on changing & the order in which fruits are listed keep on changing.
$ cat fruits
fruitname price/pound
redapples 30
grapes 50
oranges 20
$echo $custom_price
35
What I want to do is that if the file "fruits" contains... (1 Reply)
I know in vi you can do
:%s/replaceme/withthis/
but if i want to find all lines say without a # at the begining and I want to put it in how would that command be formatted? I can't figure it out for the life of me.
#comment
blah1
hey1
grrr1
#comment
#blah1
#hey1
#grrr1 (5 Replies)
i'm writing a script that will extract and substitute a certain part of a data.
i'm having trouble with the substituting part ...
Here's my data looks like:
01/01/08-001-23:46:18-01/01/08-23:50:43
01/01/08-003-23:45:19-01/01/08-23:55:49
01/01/08-005-23:52:18-01/01/08-23:58:52
i want to... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have query terms like this:
a) apple bannana
b) apple bannana AND chickko
c) "milk shake" OR Graphes orange
whereever there is space substitue with AND operator.
I tried like this: (2 Replies)
My question is how would I substitute for ceratain number of occurences in a line? If this is my input
rjohns BFSTDBS01 Standard Silver NPRO30DINCR 2 Client
Is it possible to change the first 3 occurences of space " " to a comma? (7 Replies)
Hey all,
I am trying to disable a certain cronjob before I run a backup. I want to be able to add/remove a "#" from the beginning on the crontab line it is located on.
Here is the crontab:
46 11 * * * /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl
@daily /etc/webmin/time/sync.pl
*/5 * * * *... (4 Replies)
I usually use :
Code:
awk '{gsub(/xxx/,"yyy");print}'
to substitute xxx with yyy.
I have a problem substitute an expression like
Code:
x ' y
Because of the ( ' )
Any idea on how to get over this problem?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi there,
i am updating a file on UNIX and have many lines as per below :
listen:x:37:4:Network Admin:/usr/net/nls:
i would like to substitute from the :/usr to the end of the line.
so at the moment im using this :
:s/"\/$/ /g
but i get an error.can anyone help?
thank you (3 Replies)
Hi
I have 3 files in total. file 1 is enriched.txt file2 is repressed.txt and file 3 is my content.txt
What i need is query the content file against both enriched and repressed and wherever the gensymbol is same in both the files then add a yes value against it
file1
Gene
ABC
XYZ
MNO... (12 Replies)
HI
I am trying to use the following code in the shell script (using grep)
usage()
{
echo "Usage: ./$0 <file name> <interval> <pattern>"
}
METRICS_FILE=$1
INTERVAL=$2
PATTERN="$3"
..
if
then
PATTERN="grep Gx"
fi
COUNT=`cat ${METRICS_FILE} | "${PATTERN}" |egrep... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: asifansari
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suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
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suspend
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Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
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