Can you use cat to send the first 25 lines of a file to the printer? I'm thinking I can pipe it with '|' but I'm not school to check printer output.
With the 'nl' used, all lines are numbered on the print out, but how does one number only the blank lines?
Thanks:) (1 Reply)
Hi,
I wnat to read a fiel line by line and store each line in a variabel, so I made a for loop:
for i in `cat file` ; do
#do sth.
done;
The problem is, that in the file, there are lines with only asterisks like this... (3 Replies)
Not sure how to do this exactly.. just want to take the first 100 lines of a file and cat it out into a second file. I know I can do a more on a file and > it into a different file, but how can I make it so only the first 100 lines get moved over? (1 Reply)
I want to cat a file with only show the line contain '/bin/bash' but don't show the line contain 'load' (don't show if the line contain 'load' and '/bin/bash' together), how to type in the command? thk a lot! (2 Replies)
I am looking for a command to take files with a specific date and cat them all into big file. I know I can use commands to list all of the files from a certain date. But I want to do that and take those files and make on large files containing all of them.
Any help would be great. This is being... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have two files
one.txt
laptop
boy
apple
two.txt
unix
linux
OS
openS
I want to split one.txt into one line each and concatenate it with the two.txt
output files
onea.txt
laptop (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have stumbled upon very unique issue. In my script I am doing cat file and then greping and cutting so as to assign the value to variable. My file is,
<mxc_tl_load_extractdata_prop.bsh>
DB_USER=test_oper
hostname=xxx
FTP_USER=test1_operate
MAIL_LIST=xxx@yyy.com... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm on a remote computer by SSH. How can I get the output of "cat file" into a file on the local computer?
I cannot use scp, because it's blocked.
something like:
ssh root@remote_maschine "cat /file" > /locale_machine/file
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Discussion started by: borsti007
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
seq
SEQ(1) FSF SEQ(1)NAME
seq - print a sequence of numbers
SYNOPSIS
seq [OPTION]... LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST INCREMENT LAST
DESCRIPTION
Print numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT.
-f, --format=FORMAT
use printf style floating-point FORMAT (default: %g)
-s, --separator=STRING
use STRING to separate numbers (default:
)
-w, --equal-width
equalize width by padding with leading zeroes
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
If FIRST or INCREMENT is omitted, it defaults to 1. FIRST, INCREMENT, and LAST are interpreted as floating point values. INCREMENT should
be positive if FIRST is smaller than LAST, and negative otherwise. When given, the FORMAT argument must contain exactly one of the printf-
style, floating point output formats %e, %f, %g
AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for seq is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and seq programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info seq
should give you access to the complete manual.
seq (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 SEQ(1)