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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete after nth occurence of string in each line Post 303025958 by baris35 on Thursday 15th of November 2018 03:45:36 PM
Old 11-15-2018
Delete after nth occurence of string in each line

Hello,
Environment:
I am under Ubuntu 18.04 bionic. I have an sql file consisting of 10K lines.
Objective:
What I am trying to attain is to remove everything coming after 2nd tab in each line. While searching for the answer, I found two answers and both gave expected result just for the first line of mysql file.

Works just first line
Code:
sed -r 'H;1h;$!d;x; s/(([^\t]*\t){2}).*/\1/' mysql

When I run below, it gives thousands of errors.
Code:
while read -r line
do
sed -r 'H;1h;$!d;x; s/(([^\t]*\t){2}).*/\1/' "$line"
done < mysql

Also this one:
Code:
while read -r line
do
awk -v RS='\t' -v ORS='\t' 'NR==1{print} NR==2{print; printf"\n";exit}' $line
done < mysql

I'd appreciate your help
Thanks
Boris
 

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IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)

NAME
"IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream" - stream-based protocols using lines of text SYNOPSIS
Most likely this class will be subclassed to implement a particular network protocol. package Net::Async::HelloWorld; use strict; use warnings; use base qw( IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream ); sub on_read_line { my $self = shift; my ( $line ) = @_; if( $line =~ m/^HELLO (.*)/ ) { my $name = $1; $self->invoke_event( on_hello => $name ); } } sub send_hello { my $self = shift; my ( $name ) = @_; $self->write_line( "HELLO $name" ); } This small example elides such details as error handling, which a real protocol implementation would be likely to contain. DESCRIPTION
EVENTS
The following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters: on_read_line $line Invoked when a new complete line of input is received. PARAMETERS
The following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure": on_read_line => CODE CODE reference for the "on_read_line" event. METHODS
$lineprotocol->write_line( $text ) Writes a line of text to the transport stream. The text will have the end-of-line marker appended to it; $text should not end with it. AUTHOR
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> perl v5.14.2 2012-10-24 IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)
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