You didn't quite answer Don Cragun's questions about your attempts to modify/adapt the solution given in that former thread to solve your actual problem.
And, you don't seem to care about how the spaces in your input file(s) are being handled in the output file.
However, try
hi,
I have a file say x.txt containing
xxx
123
bla
bla
...
you
xxx
dfk
dbf
...
me
xxx
...
...
keeps on..
i need to search for pattern in the line starting xxx in the file. If pattern matched, I need to fetch all the lines till i find next xxx. (17 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to ksh scripting and I have a problem.
I have a file in which I have to search for a particular pattern say 'a' then from that line I need to search for another pattern say 'b' in the previous lines and thne print the file from pattern 'b' till the end of file.
For eg:
... (2 Replies)
Gurus,
I have a big file that needs to be sorted out and I cant figure out what to do. The file name is as below:
Name: xxxx yyyy nnnn
Description: dfffgs sdgsgsf hsfhhs
afgghhjdgj
fjklllll gsfhfh
Updated: jafgadsgg gsg
Corrected: date today
The file consists of line like these.
... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement with,
No~Dt~Notes
1~2011/08/1~"aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
eee
fff
ggg
hhh"
Single column alone got splitted into multiple lines.
I require the output as
No~Dt~Notes
1~2011/08/1~"aaa<>bbb<>ccc<>ddd<>eee<>fff<>ggg<>hhh"
mean to say those new lines to be... (1 Reply)
Hi,
My input files is like this
axis1 0 1 10
axis2 0 1 5
axis1 1 2 -4
axis2 2 3 -3
axis1 3 4 5
axis2 3 4 -1
axis1 4 5 -6
axis2 4 5 1
Now, these are my following tasks
1. Print a first column for every two rows that has the same value followed by a string.
2. Match on the... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I am new to using awk and am quickly discovering what a powerful pattern-recognition tool it is. However, I have what seems like a fairly basic task that I just can't figure out how to perform in one line. I want awk to find and print all the lines in which one of multiple patterns (e.g.... (8 Replies)
The intended result should be :
PDF converters
'empty line'
gpdftext and pdftotext?xml version="1.0"?>
xml:space="preserve"><note-content version="0.1" xmlns:/tomboy/link" xmlns:size="http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/size">PDF converters
gpdftext and pdftotext</note-content>... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I have searched and searched, but I have not found a solution that quite fits what I am trying to do.
I have a long list of data in three columns. Below is a sample:
1,10,8
2,12,10
3,13,12
4,14,14
5,15,16
6,16,18
Please use code tags
What I need to do is as follows: If a... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bleedingturnip
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
comm
comm(1) General Commands Manual comm(1)NAME
comm - Compares two sorted files.
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123] file1 file2
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
command: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
OPTIONS
Suppresses output of the first column (lines in file1 only). Suppresses output of the second column (lines in file2 only). Suppresses
output of the third column (lines common to file1 and file2).
The command comm -123 produces no output.
OPERANDS
A pathname of the first file to be compared. If file1 is a hyphen (-), the standard input is used. A pathname of the second file to be
compared. If file2 is a hyphen (-), the standard input is used.
If both file1 and file2 refer to standard input or to the same FIFO special, block special or character special file, the results are unde-
fined.
DESCRIPTION
The comm command reads file1 and file2 and writes three columns to standard output, showing which lines are common to the files and which
are unique to each.
The leftmost column of standard output includes lines that are in file1 only. The middle column includes lines that are in file2 only.
The rightmost column includes lines that are in both file1 and file2.
If you specify a hyphen (-) in place of one of the file names, comm reads standard input.
Generally, file1 and file2 should be sorted according to the collating sequence specified by the LC_COLLATE environment variable. (See
sort(1).) If the input files are not sorted properly, the output of comm might not be useful.
EXIT STATUS
Successful completion. Error occurred.
EXAMPLES
In the following examples, file1 contains the following sorted list of North American cities:
Anaheim Baltimore Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Detroit Kansas City Milwaukee Minneapolis New York Oakland Seattle Toronto
The second file, file2, contains this sorted list:
Atlanta Chicago Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles Montreal New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh San Diego San Francisco St. Louis
To display the lines unique to each file and common to the two files, enter: comm file1 file2
This command results in the following output: Anaheim Atlanta Baltimore Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dal-
las Detroit Houston Kansas City Los Angeles Milwaukee Minneapolis Montreal New York Oakland Philadel-
phia Pittsburgh San Diego San Francisco Seattle St. Louis Toronto
The leftmost column contains lines in file1 only, the middle column contains lines in file2 only, and the rightmost column contains
lines common to both files. To display any one or two of the three output columns, include the appropriate flags to suppress the
columns you do not want. For example, the following command displays columns 1 and 2 only: comm -3 file1 file2
Anaheim
Atlanta Baltimore Boston
Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Detroit
Houston Kansas City
Los Angeles Milwaukee Minneapolis
Montreal Oakland
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
San Diego
San Francisco Seattle
St. Louis Toronto
The following command displays output from only the second column: comm -13 file1 file2
Atlanta Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles Montreal Philadelphia Pittsburgh San Diego San Francisco St. Louis
The following command displays output from only the third column: comm -12 file1 file2
Chicago New York
SEE ALSO
Commands: cmp(1), diff(1), sdiff(1), sort(1), uniq(1)comm(1)