Removing PATTERN from txt without removing lines and general text formatting
Hi Everybody! First post! Totally noobie.
I'm using the terminal to read a poorly formatted book.
The text file contains, in the middle of paragraphs, hyphenation to split words that are supposed to be on multiple pages.
It looks ve -- ry much like this.
I was hoping to use
to clean up the file, but, of course, grep removes whole lines.
How would you go about removing these tokens without removing the whole line?
And, people of the forum do you have any other tips and tricks for formatting text files for better viewing in the terminal without using a text editor?
Here is my problem I'm hoping you guru's can help me figure out. I have a text file that contains comma delimited columns. What I'm looking to do is see if the 24th column on each row in the file contains a value (not null), and then write/append that line to a different file.
I've been... (4 Replies)
I have a text file with rows of information (it is basically a ls command information(o/p from ls command))
I need to remove the lines ending with a .cnt extension and keep the lines ending with .zip extension, how to accomplish this.
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I have several huge files wich contains oracle table creation scripts as follows:
I would need to remove the pattern colored in red above. Any sed/awk/pearl code will be of much help.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hello,
So I wanted to write a very simple script to remove some information from a text file and save it as something else.
For example I have a text file (let's call it txt) with three rows of numbers:
0 0 1 9 8 7 5 0 6 7 9
0 0 7 9 8 1 1 6 4 0 6
0 0 9 8 4 6 0 9 2 8 1
And I want to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to remove multiple lines of text based off a series of different words and output it to a new file
The document contains a ton of data but i want to delete any line that has the following
mx1.rr.biz.com or ns2.ri.biz.com
i tried using grep -v filename "mx1.rr.biz.com" >... (3 Replies)
I have an ugly conf file that has the string I'm interested in searching for in the middle of a block of code that's relevant, and I'm trying to find a way to remove that entire block based on the matched line.
I've googled for this problem, and most people helping are only interested in... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I didn't find anything that specifically answers this after searching for a bit, so please forgive me if this has been covered before.
I'm looking to delete all lines prior to the last occurrence of a string in a file or stream from within a shell script (bash.)
A bit of... (4 Replies)
How do I remove line that do not contain text, but that do contain tabs?
I have tried the command
cat file | awk NF
but that doesn't work when the lines contain tabs (and spaces).
I have also tried:
cat file | sed '/^$/d' (9 Replies)
Hello.
I'm writing a script where every file you create will generate a md5sum and store it into a text file.
Say I create 2 files, it'll look like this in the text file:
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e /helloworld/saystheman
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e /helloworld/test
I... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
fmt
fmt(1) General Commands Manual fmt(1)NAME
fmt - Formats mail messages prior to sending
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-width] file...
DESCRIPTION
The fmt command reads the input file or files, or standard input if no files are specified, and writes to standard output a version of the
input with lines of a length as close as possible to width columns. (Because fmt is internationalized software, the number of display col-
umns is not necessarily equivalent to the number of bytes.)
The fmt command both joins and splits lines to achieve the desired width, but words are never joined or split; spaces are always preserved,
and lines are split at spaces only. In effect, fmt ignores newline characters in the input and wraps words to make lines a close as possi-
ble to width columns, resulting in individual lines of varying length but a consistent (new) text width overall. Because blank lines are
always preserved, fmt does not merge paragraphs separated by blank lines.
If you specify more than one file, the files are concatenated as input to fmt. If you do not specify -width, the default line length is 72
columns. Spacing at the beginning of input lines is always preserved in the output.
The fmt command is generally used to format mail messages to improve their appearance before they are sent. It may also be useful, how-
ever, for other simple formatting tasks. For example, when you are using vi, you can use the command :%!fmt -60 to reformat your text so
that all lines are approximately 60 columns long.
NOTES
The fmt command is a fast, simple formatting program. Standard text editing programs are more appropriate than fmt for complex formatting
operations. Do not use the fmt command if the message contains embedded messages or preformatted information from other files. This com-
mand formats the heading information in embedded messages and may change the format of preformatted information.
EXAMPLES
file1 contains these lines:
Australia is an island-continent, home to many very interesting plants and animals.
To reformat this text to a narrower width, enter: fmt -30 file1
This results in the following, displayed on your screen: Australia is an island-continent, home to many very interesting plants and
animals.
To make file1 wider, enter: fmt -60 file1
This results in: Australia is an island-continent, home to many very interesting plants and animals. To format a message you have
created with the mailx editor, at the left margin enter: ~|fmt
After you enter the command, your message is formatted, in this case to the default line length of 72 columns, and the word continue
is displayed to indicate that you can enter more information or send your message.
SEE ALSO
Commands: mail(1), mailx(1), vi(1)fmt(1)