1. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Trying to delete a directory or a file using a pattern-selective deletion (using “*” and “?” ) (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to delete/replace the the odd occurance of a pattern say newline character "\n" a,b,c,d e,f g, h, i, j, k, l m,n 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 the output should be a,b,c,de,f g, h, i, j, k, lm,n 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need RegEx to delete text block delimited by "^--" and "^request saved" if the block contained the pattern "FAILED:No air,rail,hotel or car" in the following. Many thanks in advance! company_id=9292 queue_id=72 internationalOnly=0 Building XML... ABC123 Adding passenger first=First ... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all. I am a beginner UNIX user who is using UNIX to work on a bioinformatics project for my university. I have a bit of a complicated issue in trying to use sed (or awk) to "find and replace" bases (letters) in a genetics data spreadsheet (converted to a text file, can be either... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am under the gun on a project and am not very good at scripting. I have to make a modification to thousands of C programs to basically replace the #pragma statement. I don't want to have to do it manually. Here is an example of what I need done. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I... (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All. I didnt know how to put this question as but i want to delete my values following string_X but need to retain the data in it. I hope the following might help me in conveying my doubt. My sequence looks like this. >string_1 CAJW010000001... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have a large sequence of format sat_1_g3_g_0_8540 . A 1 15501 . . . ID=sat_1_g3_g_0_8540;parentName=sat_1_g3_g_0_8540;Al=sat_1_g2_g_0_8540; sat_1_g3_g_2_8510 . C 1 25501 . . . ... (11 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All This might be a weird query but its related to deleting specific details in database. Bascially I had built a database using a set of files seq1 of 300 mb seq2 of 200 mb seq3 of 350 mb seq4 of 300 mb and after building the database i realized that i didn't need the whole data.... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have the following data: 2860377|"DATA1"|"DATA2"|"65343"|"DATA2"|"DATA4"|"11"|"DATA5"|"DATA6"|"65343"|"DATA7"|"0"|"8"|"1"|"NEGATIVE" 32340377|"DATA1"|"DATA2"|"65343"|"DATA2"|"DATA4"|"11"|"DATA5"|"DATA6"|"65343"|"DATA7"|"0"|"8"|"1"|"NEG-DID"... (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I have a table which looks like this id | name | length | clone | null 1 | string 1 | 12345643 | string 1 | NULL | 2 | string 2 | 2345612 | string 2 | NULL | 3 | string 3 | 3421556 | string 3 | NULL | 4 | string 4 | 1236742 | string 4 | NULL | 5 | string 5 | 2312677 | string 5 | NULL |... (2 Replies)