hi there
i'm trying to delete blank lines and or lines with spaces only from a series of files in an directory.
to do so, i'm using this:
for files in `ls /users/myname/pesop* 2>/dev/null`
do
grep -v ^$ $files > newfile
mv newfile $files
done
now, this works great for blank lines but... (3 Replies)
can't figure out a way to delete multiple empty lines but keep single empty lines in a file, file is like this
#cat file
1
2
3
4
5
6
-
What I want is
1
2 (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have blank line in the file, I just want to remove trailing blank lines.
There are some blank lines between the lines, i don't want remove those.
Just want to delete blank lines at the end.
I used this command sed '/^$/d' infile > outfile, but it is not removing anything.
I think... (1 Reply)
I have a sed pipeline:
myVar=$(cat $FILE | sed -n '/regex/,/regex/{/regex/d;p}' | sed -n '/regex/!p' | sed -e s/*:// | sed /regex/,+8d \
)
sed '/^$/d'
sed '/./!d'
And i've tried to add that in a different order rather then just on the end..Why isnt it deleting all the blank... (2 Replies)
Hi, I've searched in this forum all day long but was not able to find enough codes to help me do a task. The only code that I can come up with is this:
sed '/ /,/ /{//p;d;}' inputfile > outputfile
I would like to sed/awk/grep a file for two patterns and then delete the lines between... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Consider a file named "testfile"
The contents of file are as below
first line added for test
second line added for test
third line added for test
fourth line added for test
fifth line added for test (5 Replies)
hey guys,
I tried searching but most 'search and replace' questions are related to one liners.
Say I have a file to be replaced that has the following:
$ cat testing.txt
TESTING
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
ENDTESTING
This is the input file: (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file and I need to delete the lines that are blank and is starting with some characters below. Something like below:
Regular Ascii File:
Line1: AGODA1 BUSAN||SK Lord Beach 4/6/2012 4/7/2012 68060
Line2: AGODA2 BUSAN||SK Beach Hotel 4/6/2012 4/7/2012 610200
Line3: ... (4 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
Somebody can say me how to delete blank spaces and blank lines in a file unix, please.
Thank you for advanced. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: systemoper
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distrib.pats
DISTRIB.PATS(5) File Formats Manual DISTRIB.PATS(5)NAME
distrib.pats - default values for Usenet Distribution header
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/news/distrib.pats is used to determine the default value of the Distribution header. It consists of a series of lines; blank
lines and lines beginning with a number sign (``#'') are ignored. All other lines consist of three fields separated by a colon:
weight:pattern:value
The first field is the weight to assign to this match. If a newsgroup matches multiple lines, the line with the heighest weight is used.
This should be an arbitrary number greater than zero. Unlike other INN files, the order of lines in this file is not important.
The second field is the name of the newsgroup or a wildmat(3)-style pattern to specify a set of newsgroups. Multiple patterns are not
allowed.
The third field is the value that should be used if this line is picked as the best match. It can be an empty string.
Programs such as inews(1) that process a user's posting should consult this file, typically by using the DDxxx routines, documented in lib-
inn(3). The intent is that all newsgroups to which an article is posted be used to index into this file, and the value with the highest
weight should be used as the value of the Distribution header, if none was specified.
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.7, dated 1996/09/06.
SEE ALSO inews(1), libinn(3).
DISTRIB.PATS(5)