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Hi!

I'm trying to create a shell script to parse a file which might have multiple lines matching a pattern (i.e. containing some word).
I need to return all lines matching the pattern, but...

That's perfect

What if I want to append the variable ONLY on the the line 2 lines after the line found with the string SEPARATOR?

i.e. Output should be

Hi There!
I'm trying to write a shell script which generates a random hexadecimal number and then appends it to the end of lines XX onwards of a certain file. XX is determined by a certain string on...

its up there in my first post, as well as here below now :)

#!/bin/sh

params=$*
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0; $params \007"'

have fun!

How silly!

thanks for the correct solution!

wow! so many answers, which one to choose? :)

just another question though...when I have the choice of solving something like this using awk or sed, which one should i choose and why? is on better...

Got another sed question :)

My text block is


I need to do the following:
If (and only if) the line starting with 10002,11 is followed by a line starting with 10004,9 , insert the line...

Hi There!

My final task for today is to delete lines starting with certain numbers

for e.g., my text block is


and i want to delete all lines starting with 11 or 17 or 21

I know i can...

thanks guys!
both solutions work perfectly, although i think i'll use radoulov's coz its quite quite fast in comparison :)

cheers!

Hi There!

I have the following block of text in my input file




and in order to parse it correctly, i need to have



i.e. If a line starts with a number, ignore it else replace it with...

indeed quite difficult to understand!

could you explain what's happening there?


EDIT: didn't see yogesh had already replied...all makes sense now, thanks guys!!!

Hi There!
I have the following string



which i need to convert to



i.e. between each occurence of the delimiter ('|' in this case), i need to delete all characters from the '|' to the...

perfect...thanks for the quick reply jim!

Hi There...
I have an application which starts up many different processes under different names and I'm creating a script to tell me which processes are running (approx 30 different processes). To...

thanks for all the replies guys...they all work fine :D

now i just have to figure out which one i want to use :p

Hello again
My problem today is somewhat silly:

I have 2 running processes: lamb and lambda (which i unfortunately cant rename). I need to get the process ID alone of both of them using only ps
...

Since I'm feeling nice, here's a translation:

Hi, I'm just starting to find my way around the UNIX world and now have the following problem, I hope you guys can help (its most probably trivial for...

Suppose I have a file which has either the contents
CALLED on <date & time>
RUNNING on <date & time>or
CALLED on <date & time>
RUNNING on <date & time>
SHUTTING_DOWN on <date & time>
DOWN on...

brilliant :)

i should have read the Bash basics before starting off :P

Thanks!

i frequently have to open multiple putty windows to ssh into a unix server running HP-UX 11.23. Since i use some of the windows for dedicated processes i would like to rename them (the caption...