06-22-2018
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I need to select the 3 lines above as well as below a search string, including the search string.
I have been trying various combinations using sed command without any success.
Can anuone help please.
Thanking (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to count the number of 2 specific characters in a very large file. I'd like to avoid using gsub because its taking too long.
I was thinking something like:
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Any ideas would be great. (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey All
Can any one please suggest the procedure to search a part of line in a very large file in which log entries are entered with very high speed.
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
are there any basic commands that can display lines 99 - 101 of the /etc/passwd file?
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
i have a really big file, and i want to remove a specific line.
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#!/bin/bash
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am attempting to insert multiple lines of text into a specific place in a text file based on the lines above or below it.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
testfile.csv
0","1125209",,"689202CBx18888",,"49",,,"NONMC",,,,,"01112010",,,,,,,"MTM-
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testfile.csv looks like above format
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
This could be a really dummy question.
I have a log text file.
What unix command to extract line from specific string to another specific string.
Is it something similar to?:
more +/"string" file_name
Thanks (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
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M END
> <ID>
1
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C00002
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
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Discussion started by: Allie_gastrator
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HEAD(1) User Commands HEAD(1)
NAME
head - output the first part of files
SYNOPSIS
head [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With
no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --bytes=[-]N
print the first N bytes of each file; with the leading `-', print all but the last N bytes of each file
-n, --lines=[-]N
print the first N lines instead of the first 10; with the leading `-', print all but the last N lines of each file
-q, --quiet, --silent
never print headers giving file names
-v, --verbose
always print headers giving file names
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
N may have a multiplier suffix: b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P,
E, Z, Y.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report head bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for head is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and head programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'head invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 HEAD(1)