1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Happy New Year!!! I'm trying to cut out some text in a data file where I only want the first line and the last line. For example. 1. Colin Was here <<-- Text I want to cut out 2. THIS IS THE TEXT I WANT TO CUT <- CUT THIS OUT 3. OUT BECAUSE IT'S NO GOOD TO ME <- CUT THIS OUT 4. I... (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can anyone tell me what the charachter maximum on a username is in SunOs 5.6. Thanks Mark (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have this problem of separating 10 consecutive lines from a file, say starting from 21 to 30... I have used a filter like this.. head -n 30 myfile | tail -n 10 Is there a simpler way than this? (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI All, I want to cut 5 lines after a pattern using sed or awk. can any one tell me how to do it ? (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file named Mani.txt. The contents are like this cat Mani.txt -------------------------------------------------------- Hi there how r u My Name is Mani Bye ------------------------------------------------------------ I want to cut the first and last lines from the file... (15 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, Is there a way to cut the lines that have been "head" Here is what i m trying to do Please advice there is file name dummy.txt now i am trying to head this file 4 time by using a loop and every time this file is head with different values e.g in first instance it will... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Please see the following code, between "status" and "OK" exists many spaces, I want to get status OK . how to ignore multi spaces? If tab exists in the spaces, how to ignore it ? Is there other commands can replace cut? $ echo 'drv status OK'| cut... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi. I am not sure how to solve this problem and if it is possible to do so with scripting. :wall: Let's say I have this data: A 12345 12360 A 12359 12380 A 12381 12390 A 12400 12450 A 12451 12460 B 23456 23460 B 23470 23480 B 23477 23505 I wan't each line to be compared in this... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Oracle Linux 6.4 In a directory I have more than 300 files with the extension .log I want the first 5 and last 5 lines of these .log files to be printed on screen with each file's name. Expected output : Printing first 5 and last 5 lines of FX_WT_Feb8_2014.log !! Authentication... (7 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to remove columns 81-97 from a line that can be as long as 114 characters. Because a number of lines might not have under 80 characters, using the cut command following by paste could be a problem. While sed might work, is there some other utility that could do this more easily? ... (9 Replies)