What are you trying to match with . in the basic regular expressions you are creating to be used as addresses in sed? What characters does a <period> in a BRE match? Each of the following sed commands will remove every line in the current sample /tmp/wrk file you now have in post #1 in this thread.
Your last script in post #3, update #3 doesn't currently use .212 or .260; but it does use the other three.
Maybe you'd like to try the following replacement for that script and see if it works any better for you:
PS: Note that editing a file a few hundred times with sed is grossly inefficient. You would probably be better off using ed or ex to edit your file once feeding global editing commands to one invocation of that editor and after all of the updates have been completed, add a w command at the end to write all of the updates back to your input file. Running ed once instead of running sed about 290 times will be MUCH faster.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-19-2018 at 10:07 PM..
Reason: Add PS.
Hi There,
I've written a script that processes a data file on our system. Basically the script reads a post code from a list file, looks in the data file for the first occurrence (using grep) and reads the line number. It then tails the data file, with the line number just read, and outputs to a... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to find a command which will allow me to remove a range of lines (2-4) from a .dat file from the command line without opening the file.
Someone mentioned using the ex command?
Does anyone have any ideas?
thanks (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I'm a little new to UNIX. How can I do remove the first and last line in a file? Say, supppose I have a file as below:
1DMA
400002BARRIE
401002CALGARY/LETHBRI
402002CARLETON
500001PORTLAND-AUBRN
501001NEW YORK, NY ... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I'm a little new to UNIX. How can I do remove the first and last line in a file? Say, supppose I have a file as below:
Code:
1DMA
400002BARRIE
401002CALGARY/LETHBRI
402002CARLETON
500001PORTLAND-AUBRN
501001NEW YORK, NY
502001BINGHAMTON, NY ... (2 Replies)
Hi
Does anybody know of a command that will enable me to remove all entries in a file that have the format (name & time)
more testfile
anthony 2003
anthonyr 2008
amorel 15:00
anthonyp 14:35
anthonyp 14:35
anthonyr 2008
ardean 13:28
arlene 2003
arlenem 08:15
arlenem 08:15... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have many files all with 1 field per line as in
12345
abcde
john.paul.net
6789101
how do I remove ceratin lines from these files.
Have tried sed but sed wrecks my head!
Many thanks in advance for any help (9 Replies)
Hi folks, I have a long string of DNA sequences, and I need to remove several lines, as well as the line directly following them. For example, here is a sample of my starting material:
>548::GY31UMJ02DLYEH rank=0007170 x=1363.5 y=471.0 length=478... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a linux server that was hacked and I have a bunch of files that sporadically contain the following lines through out the file:
<?php eval(base64_decode("Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx"));
I did't put the exact lines of the file in this post. The "Xxxx" are random letters/numbers.... (8 Replies)
GM,
I have an issue at work, which requires a simple solution. But, after multiple attempts, I have not been able to hit on the code needed.
I am assuming that sed, awk or even perl could do what I need.
I have an application that adds extra blank page feeds, for multiple reports, when... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
calendar
calendar(1) General Commands Manual calendar(1)Name
calendar - calendar reminder service
Syntax
calendar [-]
Description
The command consults the file `calendar' in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date. The com-
mand recognizes most month-day dates, such as Dec. 7, december 7, 12/7, but it does not recognize dates formatted in the following ways: 7
December or 7/12. If you give the month as * with a date, such as, * 1, that day in any month will do. On weekends, specifying tomorrow
extends through Monday.
When an argument is present, the command searches through a user's calendar file in his login directory and sends him any positive results
by Normally this is done daily under control of
The calendar file is first run through the C preprocessor, to include any other calendar files specified with the #include syntax.
Included calendars are shared by all users, and are maintained and documented by the local administration.
Options
- Functions for every user who has a calendar file in his login directory.
Restrictions
The extended idea of tomorrow does not account for holidays.
Files
calendar
/usr/lib/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates
/etc/passwd
/tmp/cal*
/lib/cpp, egrep, sed, mail as subprocesses
See Alsoat(1), cron(8), mail(1)calendar(1)