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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove the text between all curly brackets from text file? Post 303019878 by MadeInGermany on Monday 9th of July 2018 01:38:59 PM
Old 07-09-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by wbport
Do you have the option to output your PGN file without computer annotation?
Pardon? What is PGN?
--
Another sed solution that will save some memory, by only reading the needed lines into the input buffer.
Written as a multi-liner (better readable):
Code:
sed '
 :loop
 /{/{
  s/{[^{}]*}//
  t loop
  $!N; $!b loop
 }
' infile

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distccmon-text(1)					      General Commands Manual						 distccmon-text(1)

NAME
distccmon-text - Displays current compilation jobs in text form. SYNTAX
distccmon-text [DELAY] DESCRIPTION
Displays current compilation jobs in text form. distccmon-text must be run on the client machine, with the same setting for DISTCC_DIR (or home directory) as the user running the distcc client. OPTIONS
DELAY repeatedly updates after delay (fractional) seconds. OUTPUT FORMAT
The output of distccmon-text contains one line for each job currently being compiled. Each line contains the following columns: PID ID of the distcc client process. STATE Identifies the phase of operation. In order these may be "Startup", "Blocked", "Connected", "Preprocess", "Conect", "Send", "Receive" and "Done". FILE The input filename, if known. HOST[SLOT] The compile hostname. May be followed in square brackets by the slot index for that host. When a delay is specified, each block of output is terminated by a blank line. EXAMPLES
To display currently active jobs (updated every second): distccmon-text 1 To display the status once: distccmon-text AUTHORS
distcc was written by Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>, with the co-operation of many scholars including Wayne Davison, Frerich Raabe, Dimitri Papadopoulos and others noted in the NEWS file. Please report bugs to <distcc@lists.samba.org>. SEE ALSO
distccd(1), ccache(1), gcc(1), make(1) http://code.google.com/p/distcc/ http://ccache.samba.org/ 2 October 2004 distccmon-text(1)
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