I want to get a specific line form file by line number.
For example
I have file named bla
File looks like this
cat bla
Madrid
Paris
Berlin
Vladivostok
I want to put line 3 (Berlin) into variable X.
How to do that? (3 Replies)
Hi, I am a newb as far as shell scripting and SED goes so bear with me on this one.
I want to basically append to each line in a file a delimiter character and the line's line number e.g
Change the file from :-
aaaaaa
bbbbbb
cccccc
to:-
aaaaaa;1
bbbbbb;2
cccccc;3
I have worked... (4 Replies)
Hi Everybody,
I am trying to write a script that will get some perticuler data from a file and redirect to a file.
My Question is,
I have a Very huge file,In that file I have my required data is started from 25th line and it will ends in 100th line.
I know the line numbers, I need to get all... (9 Replies)
Hello Everyone.
I am trying to display contains of a file from a specific line to a specific line(let say, from line number 3 to line number 5). For this I got the shell script as shown below:
if ; then
if ; then
tail +$1 $3 | head -n $2
else
... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Can you please guide me to search a string in a particular column of file and return the line number of the line where it was found using awk. As an example :
abc.txt
7000,john,2,1,0,1,6
7001,elen,2,2,0,1,7
7002,sami,2,3,0,1,6
7003,mike,1,4,0,2,1
8001,nike,1,5,0,1,8... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have to replace a pattern found in the first uncommented line in a file. The challenge I'm facing is there are several such similar lines but I have to edit only the first uncommented line.
Eg:
#this is example
#/root/xyz:Old_Pattern
/root/xyz:Old_Pattern
/root/xyz:Old_Pattern
... (10 Replies)
my requirement is,
consider a file output
cat output
blah sdjfhjkd jsdfhjksdh
sdfs 23423 sdfsdf sdf"sdfsdf"sdfsdf"""""dsf
hellow there
this doesnt look good
et cetc etc
etcetera
i want to replace a line of line number 4 ("this doesnt look good") with some other line
... (3 Replies)
Sed command to replace a line in a file using line number from the output of a pipe.
Is it possible to replace a whole line piped from someother command into a file at paritcular line...
here is some basic execution flow..
the line number is 412
lineNo=412
Now i have a line... (1 Reply)
I am looking to replace minimum password value in login.defs file. it does change , but it change the commented one also.
please
1. my script to be change 12 in the below line...
sed -i '/PASS_MIN_LEN/c\PASS_MIN_LEN 12' /etc/login.defs
action- It does change, but it change in 2 place. ... (3 Replies)