I am not trying to rub anything in. The way we learn how to do things is to try to do it on our own. Then, if we get stuck, ask for help figuring out what doesn't work. Or, if we get something that works, but would like to make it more portable, more efficient, or faster; ask for suggestions for improvements. Study the suggestions you get. If you don't understand how or why it works, look at the manual page on your system for that utility and try to figure it out again. If you still don't understand, ask for an explanation describing how the code you don't understand works.
If you don't try to do something on your own before asking for a solution from someone else, you'll never learn how to do it on yourself. We are here to help you learn how to solve problems; not to act as your unpaid programming staff.
And, it is always a good idea to tell us what operating system and shell you're using. Many utilities have different options and capabilities on different systems. And various shells have various extensions to the features required by the standards.
On a slightly different, but very closely related, topic: How would you approach this problem if the strings you were comparing were in files instead of in shell variables?
And, with the shell you are using, what is the difference between the results produced by the three commands:
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I am trying to parse iostat output for io issues..
I want to print all lines including second occurance of 'extended' till EOF(end of file). Can we do that using awk or sed one liners or do we need a script for it? (1 Reply)
Ok so I can use awk to match a pattern and print the whole line with print $0. Is there any way to just tell awk to print every line of output when the pattern matches?
I'm having it wait for the word error and then print that entire line. But what I actually need to see is all the following... (9 Replies)
I am using Solaris, I want to print
3 lines before pattern match
pattern
5 lines after pattern match
Pattern is abcd to be searched in a.txt. Looking for the solution in sed/awk/perl. Thanks ..
Input File a.txt:
=================
1
2
3
abcd
4
5
6
7
8 (7 Replies)
Hi, I have this file.
close
block3c
block3b
block3a
open
close
block2b
block2a
open
close
block1a
open
and I need :
open
block3a
block3b
block3c
close (1 Reply)
I need to print the lines that do not match a pattern. I tried using grep -v and sed -n '/pattern/!p', but both of them are not working as I am passing the pattern as variable and it can be null some times.
Example
........ abcd......
.........abcd......
.........abcd......... (4 Replies)
I am getting the varible value from a grep command as:
var=$(grep "Group" File1.txt | sed 's/Group Name*//g;s/,//g;s/://g;s/-//g')
which leaves me the value of $var=xyz.
now i want to append $var value in the begining of all the lines present in the file. Can u please suggest?
Input file:
1... (10 Replies)
URGENT HELP IS NEEDED!!
I am looking to move matching lines (01 - 07) from File1 and 77 tab the matching string from File2, to File3.txt. I am almost done but
- Currently, script is not printing lines to File3.txt in order.
- Also the matching lines are not moving out of File1.txt
... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a file contains two columns. I need to print the lines after “xxx” so i'm trying to match "xxx" & cut the lines after that. I'm trying with the grep & cut command, if there any simple way to extract this please help me.
Sample file :
name id
AAA 123
AAB 124
AAC 125... (4 Replies)
I have input file as below I need to check for a pattern and if it is there in file then I need to print all the lines below BEGIN and END keyword. Could you please help me how to get this in AIX using sed or awk.
Input file:
ABC
******** BEGIN *****
My name is Amit.
I am learning unix.... (8 Replies)