anbu23 looks like it is working. the problem is that it is also deleting sub strings and not just the word. in addition, is there any option to delete spaces that come after the deleted word?
say I have a sentence: The password and the key are safe in the vault - please verify.
and after the script I should get : The and are safe in the vault - please.
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Welcome to the forum.
How do you plan to deliver the "hundreds of words I want to delete" if you "don't want to put all of them inside the quotes of sed nor inside an external file"?
Thank you RudiC, and you are right - that makes no sense. what i meant is that i don't want to manually separate the words with whatever separator is needed - but guess I can just write a script for that.
Hi,
In my korn shell script, I want to delete some particular text from a certain file...How can this be done? Is the below right?
ed $NAMES << EOF
echo "" > /dev/null
echo "${x} = " > /dev/null
echo "name = " > /dev/null
echo "adress = " > /dev/null
w
q
EOF (1 Reply)
How can i read all the unique words in a file, i used -
cat comment_file.txt | /usr/xpg6/bin/tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '/012'
and
cat comment_file.txt | /usr/xpg6/bin/tr -sdc 'A-Za-z' '/012'
but they didnt worked..... (5 Replies)
Hi, all:
I would like to search all files under "./" and its subfolders recursively to find out
those files contain both word "A" and word "B", and list the filenames finally.
How to realize that?
Cheers
JIA (18 Replies)
Morning Guys & Gals,
I am trying to figure out a way to remove lines from a file that have more than
2 identical characters in sequence..
So if for instance the list would look like ;
the output would be ;
I can't seem to get my head around perl (among many other... (7 Replies)
Hey all,
I'm doing a project currently and want to index words in a webpage.
So there would be a file with webpage content and a file with list of words, I want an output file with true and false that would show which word exists in the webpage.
example:
Webpage content data.html
... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am looking for the way to delete the block of data for example
original file
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
input file
line2
line3
original file should contain
line1
line4
line5 (3 Replies)
I have a long list of alphanumberic words (no spaces or characters) in file1.txt I need to check for the existance of each of the words from file1.txt against file2.txt and if the word is NOT in file2.txt, I need to know about it, either standard output or redirect to file3.txt
For example:... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I want to grep a log ("server.log") for words in a separate file ("white-list.txt") and generate a separate log file containing each line that uses a word from the "white-list.txt" file.
Putting that in bullet points:
Search through "server.log" for lines that contain any word... (15 Replies)
Hi there, newbie there. I've been browsing the forums hoping to find a solution that answers a problem similar to what I need, but haven't had much luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I need to delete a bunch of text between every appearance of two words in a really large file... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: lendl
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
look
look(1) General Commands Manual look(1)NAME
look - Finds lines in a sorted list
SYNOPSIS
look [-df] [-tcharacter] string [file]
The look command prints all lines in a sorted file that begin with string.
OPTIONS
Uses dictionary order; only letters, digits, tabs, and spaces are used in comparisons. Searches without regard to case; treats uppercase
and lowercase as equivalent. Ignores character and characters following it in the search string. If you specify look -tC ABCDE, the
string ABCDE would become (in effect) AB, with CDE being ignored. This option is primarily for shell scripts, in which more than one
string is being processed.
DESCRIPTION
If no file is specified, look searches in the system word list /usr/share/dict/words, with the options -df assumed by default.
The look command uses binary search.
The -d and -f options affect comparisons as in sort.
NOTES
In order to use the -f option, you must first sort file with the sort -f command; otherwise, look displays only lowercase items.
If you do not specify -f, but specify a file (such as /usr/share/dict/words) that has been sorted with sort -f, look may not produce any
output.
EXAMPLES
To search a sorted file called sortfile for all lines that begin with the string as, enter: look as sortfile To search the system word list
for all words beginning with smi, enter: look smi
This might result in: smile smirk smith smithereens Smithfield Smithson smithy smitten
FILES
System word list.
SEE ALSO
Commands: grep(1), sort(1), spell(1)look(1)