Hi guys I am trying to figure out how to match a pattern with a regex up to a full blank line. I will show you what I mean with this example:
So above example A seems ok to do, just match "name:". But example B the names are on the next line so I was thinking if I was able to match "names{0,1}:" up to a full blank line so it would go up as far as this:
Any ideas guys?
Hi,
I have the following data in the format as shown (note: there are more than 1 blank spaces between each field and the spaces are not uniform, meaning there can be one blank space between field1 and field2 and 3 spaces between field3 and field4, in this example, # are the spaces in between... (19 Replies)
can't figure out a way to delete multiple empty lines but keep single empty lines in a file, file is like this
#cat file
1
2
3
4
5
6
-
What I want is
1
2 (6 Replies)
Hi,
I want to write a sed script which from
batiato:
batiato/giubbe:
pip_b.2.txt
pip_b.3.txt
pip_b.3mmm.txt
bennato:
bennato/peterpan:
123.txt
consoli:
pip_a.12.txt
daniele: (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a file in which each set of records are separated by two blank line. I want to replace it with a single blank line.
Can you guys help me out?
Regards,
Magesh (9 Replies)
why does sed 's/.* //' show the last word in a line
and
sed 's/ .*//' show the first word in a line? How is that blank space before or after the ".*" being interpreted in the regex?
i would think the first example would delete the first word and the next example would delete the second... (1 Reply)
I've got a report I need to make easier to read Using sh on HP-UX 11.12.
In short, I want to search for a regular expression and when found, examine the next line to see if it's blank. If so, then delete both lines. If not blank, move on to the next regexp. Repeat.
So far I've got:
... (7 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to filter some data using awk. I have a statement-
awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\n" ; RS = "" } { if ( $6 = "City: " ) { print "City: Unknown" } else { print $6 } }'`
The $6 values are
City: London
City: Madrid
City:
City: Tokyo
This expression seems to catch all the lines... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file that I want to be able to insert a new line before every instance of a regex. I can get it to do this for each line that contains the regex, but not for each instance.
Contents of infile:
Test this 1...
Test this 2...
Test this 3... Test this 4... Test this... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
In a CSV file, say that a given column has been extracted. In that column, information is missing (i.e. blank lines appear). I would like to replace the blank lines by the last valid line (not blank) previously read.
For example, consider the extract below:
123
234
543
111... (7 Replies)