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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with a text file Post 302913379 by prvnrk on Friday 15th of August 2014 07:59:44 PM
Old 08-15-2014
Problem with a text file
Hi,

I have many text files with certain problem. It gets fixed by doing vi and delete first line (supposedly a blank line) by pressing dd and save the file.

I need to automate this process and I tried sed '1d' samp.pgn and/or unix2dos / dos2unix etc. but NONE of them worked. Strange thing about these text files is that vi shows 4 lines and wc -l shows 3 lines.

Please advise, many thanks!

Code:
$ wc -l samp.pgn
3 samp.pgn

Code:
$ od -c samp.pgn
0000000  \n       1   .   .   .       N   e   4   +       2   .       K
0000020   b   6       K   b   8       3   .       R   c   2       R   d
0000040   6       4   .       R   c   5       f   5       5   .       R
0000060   a   4       N   f   6       6   .       R   a   1       N   d
0000100   7   #       0   -   1          \n       1   .       Q   x   a
0000120   4       b   x   a   4       2   .       R   x   b   8       R
0000140   x   b   8       3   .       a   6       R   d   8       4   .
0000160       a   7       B   e   6       5   .       a   8   =   Q
0000200   R   x   a   8       6   .       B   x   a   8       B   x   a
0000220   2       7   .       B   c   6       f   5       8   .       B
0000240   x   a   4       K   f   7       9   .       R   a   1       B
0000260   d   5       1   0   .       B   b   5       g   6       1   1
0000300   .       B   c   4       K   e   6       1   2   .       R   a
0000320   7       B   g   5       1   3   .       R   x   h   7       B
0000340   x   d   2       1   4   .       B   x   d   5   +       K   x
0000360   d   5       1   5   .       R   d   7   +       K   e   4
0000400   1   6   .       R   x   d   2       c   4       1   7   .
0000420   R   d   6       1   -   0          \n       1   .       R   a
0000440   6       Q   b   5       2   .       R   x   a   7       Q   c
0000460   6       3   .       R   a   6       Q   d   7       4   .
0000500   R   a   8   +       R   c   8       5   .       R   x   c   8
0000520   +       Q   x   c   8       6   .       Q   x   d   5       h
0000540   6       7   .       N   f   7   +       K   h   7       8   .
0000560       N   x   e   5       Q   e   8       9   .       Q   b   7
0000600       Q   a   4       1   0   .       b   4       Q   a   2
0000620   1   1   .       B   f   8       Q   d   2       1   2   .
0000640   R   e   3       Q   d   8       1   3   .       B   x   g   7
0000660       N   x   g   7       1   4   .       b   5       Q   d   6
0000700       1   5   .       b   6       Q   b   4       1   6   .
0000720   Q   c   7       1   -   0
0000731

Code:
$ cat samp.pgn

 1... Ne4+ 2. Kb6 Kb8 3. Rc2 Rd6 4. Rc5 f5 5. Ra4 Nf6 6. Ra1 Nd7# 0-1
 1. Qxa4 bxa4 2. Rxb8 Rxb8 3. a6 Rd8 4. a7 Be6 5. a8=Q Rxa8 6. Bxa8 Bxa2 7. Bc6 f5 8. Bxa4 Kf7 9. Ra1 Bd5 10. Bb5 g6 11. Bc4 Ke6 12. Ra7 Bg5 13. Rxh7 Bxd2 14. Bxd5+ Kxd5 15. Rd7+ Ke4 16. Rxd2 c4 17. Rd6 1-0
 1. Ra6 Qb5 2. Rxa7 Qc6 3. Ra6 Qd7 4. Ra8+ Rc8 5. Rxc8+ Qxc8 6. Qxd5 h6 7. Nf7+ Kh7 8. Nxe5 Qe8 9. Qb7 Qa4 10. b4 Qa2 11. Bf8 Qd2 12. Re3 Qd8 13. Bxg7 Nxg7 14. b5 Qd6 15. b6 Qb4 16. Qc7 1-0
$

 

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