1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Hello Firends, I have file like below. I want to remove selected blocks say abc,pqr,lst. how can i remove those blocks from file. zone abc { blah blah blah } zone xyz { blah blah blah } zone pqr { blah blah blah } (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a log file which is generated by a script which looks like this: userid: 7 starttime: Sat May 24 23:24:13 CEST 2008 endtime: Sat May 24 23:26:57 CEST 2008 total time spent: 2.73072 minutes / 163.843 seconds date: Sat Jun 7 16:09:03 CEST 2008 userid: 8 starttime: Sun May... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, This is part of a large text file I need to separate out. I'd like some help to build a shell script that will extract the text between sets of dashed lines, write that to a new file using the whole or part of the first text string as the new file name, then move on to the next one and... (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have been struggling with a script for removing duplicate messages from a shared mailbox. I would like to search for duplicate messages based on the “Message-ID” string within the messages files. I have managed to find the duplicate “Message-ID” strings and (if I would like) delete... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello again, I am wanting to remove all duplicate blocks of XML code in a file. This is an example: input: <string-array name="threeItems"> <item>item1</item> <item>item2</item> <item>item3</item> </string-array> <string-array name="twoItems"> <item>item1</item> <item>item2</item>... (19 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have 2 duplicate blocks in an inode and I want to get rid of one of them so that I can get into my pc. The message I get is Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 5997500: 12690101 12690101. All help is appreciated. Thanks (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, short story: I'm writing a script to add and remove dns records in dns files. Its on a RHEL 5.5 So far i've locked up the basic operations in a couple of functions: - validate the parameters - search for existant ip in file when adding - search for existant name records in... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I sat down yesterday to write this script and have just realised that my methodology is broken........ In essense I have..... ----------------------------------------------------------------- (This line really is in the file) Service ID: 12345 ... (7 Replies)

9. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

So, I have text files, one "fail.txt" And one "color.txt" I now want to use a command line (DOS) to remove ANY line that is PRESENT IN BOTH from each text file. Afterwards there shall be no duplicate lines. (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi folks! I have a file which contains a 1000 lines. On each line i have multiple occurrences ( 26 to be exact ) of pattern folder#/folder#. # is depicting the line number in the file some text here folder1/folder1 some text here folder1/folder1 some text here folder1/folder1 some text... (7 Replies)