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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all and apologies for the silly question, but I've searched and I can't get this right.
I have a list of email addresses in a file that I need to blacklist (spam). the list is quite long and I would need to script a small routine so that I can get the following for each line in the file:
db... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I now that >> will append text to the end of the text that is already inside the file.
How to append the new text infront of the text that is already in the file.
Thanks for any input.
Regards,
Chandu (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a specific requirement to add text at the beginning and end of a plain text file. I tried to use "sed" with '1i' and '$a' flags but these required two separate "sed" commands separated with "|".
I am looking for some command/option to join these two in single command parameter.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
It is very simple to remove a hyphen from a word anywhere in that word using a simple sed command (sed -i 's/-//g' filename), but I am not able to figure out how to do this:
For example,
apple
-orange
tree
pipe-
banana-shake
dupe-
What my output should look like:
apple
orange
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Discussion started by: shoaibjameel123
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Guys,
I have serveral directories like this:
(2013) blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla)
or
(1997) blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla)
and have to rename them to something like that:
blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla) (2013)
and
blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla) (1997)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Well here goes:
I tried to write a batch file that adds a specific fixed text to each line of an already existing text file.
for the adding text infront of each line I tried this:
for /F "delims=" %%j in (list.txt) do echo.STARTTEXT\%%j >> list.txt
for adding text after each line I... (0 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Ladies and Gents,
Explanation of my question with an example:
Let's consider the script: backup_every_hour.sh
#!/bin/bash
rsync -auv $dir $backup_dir >> backup_every_hour_script.log
Each time this script is called there will be a new entry at the end of the file... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello friends,
I have a file which consists of many rows, I use a couple of commands to convert it so i can use in a database query for filtering. I need the first columns (msisdns) in a row, seperated with commas,
9855162267,4,5,2010-11-03 17:02:07.627
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, excuse me for my poor english.
My problem is that:
I have a File
i want to add to each line of that file two strings: one at the beginning of the line, one at the ending.
string1="abcd"
string2="efgh"
i want $string1 content $string2 for each line.
Is that possible? (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there an option, for cat, head, tail, or is there any way, to display a file from last line to first? For example, my file
looks like this:
aaaa
bbbb
cccc
eeee
and I would like to print or display it like this:
eeee
cccc
bbbb
aaaa
thanks (5 Replies)
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