It is usually best and most efficient for all parties to carefully phrase the request in the first place, cogitating all the possible ramifications e.g. difference in structures and positions in files. Better than letting drip in information droplet by droplet after a solution was found for the first but non-fitting sample.
The easiest way would be to force the long lines into several independent ones:
The logics lie in the regex: find a string of zero or more colons (parenthesized for later "back reference") then any number of non-colons, the "hope" string, non-colons again, and finally zero or more colons. Replace by the first colon if exists else the empty string (i.e. remove)
ppl,
this is my "file" with fields
orderno orderdate orderdesc telno street city
1 01/04/2006 abc 123 100 tampa
2 01/04/2006 abc 123 100 tampa
3 01/04/2006 abc 123 100 tampa
4 01/04/2006 abc ... (2 Replies)
Hi all
Iam having a text file of records seperated by "SPACE"
and another text File of Records seperated by "TAB"
i'm writing a Generic code for Extracting Duplicate Records
Iam using "cut" Command to extract data.
How Can I Neglect Delimiter And write a generic code for all cases
... (4 Replies)
Dear All
I want to search string "1000" from input file and if it found i want remove line that contain 1000 and also remove 3 line above it and 2 line below it.
INPUT FILE:
BHAT-D 2
aaa
ID CODE GS UPDATE MODE LANG MCO MCL NUMPAGES
50 ... (7 Replies)
I have a file on UNIX system from where I want to grep the list of all users associated to the particular repository.If the user's list is in single line then I fetch all list but if it is in two separate lines it doesn't.I use the below command
a=KESTREL-DEV;b=users;cat access_file|grep... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a csv file like the following:
"ABCD2","EFGH2","XXXX","1"
"ABCD2","EFGH2","XXXX","2"
I want to grep out the row which contains the value of 2 within the 4th column, so then i can use the extracted record to cut up and store into numerous variables.
Obviously when... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I know there are many questions and replies regarding grep command.
What I would like to do is a bit different.
File A:
hello world welcome to my page
this is my test site
how are you
I am fine, thank you
where have you been
I was in hospital
really hope you are fine now
Thanks,... (10 Replies)
Hello,
I have two files. All urls are space seperated.
source
http://xx.yy.zz http://df.ss.sd.xz http://09.09.090.01
http://11.22.33 http://canada.xx.yy http://01.02.03.04
http://33.44.55 http://98.87.76.65 http://russia.xx.zz
http://aa.tt.xx.zz http://1w.2e.3r.4t http://china.rr.tt
... (4 Replies)
Lets say I have a massive directory which is filled with other directories all filled with different c++ scripts and I want a listing of all the scripts that contain the string: "this string". Is there a way to use a grep search for that? I tried:
grep -lr "this string" *
but I do not... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ...
OPTIONS -e-e pattern is the same as pattern
-c Print a count of lines matched
-i Ignore case
-l Print file names, no lines
-n Print line numbers
-s Status only, no printed output
-v Select lines that do not match
EXAMPLES
grep mouse file # Find lines in file containing mouse
grep [0-9] file # Print lines containing a digit
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches one or more files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern. All the regular expressions
accepted by ed and mined are allowed. In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or 1
occurrences, and | can be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them. Parentheses can be used for grouping. If a
match is found, exit status 0 is returned. If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned. If an error is detected, exit status 2 is
returned.
SEE ALSO cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9).
GREP(1)