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That is sick stuff vgersh99...unfortunately i forgot to tell you that my input.txt is a lot longer than 3 lines, say it's 6 lines, but I still don't want to overwrite the HHH.

$ cat input.txt
RRR...

hey guys,

I tried searching but most 'search and replace' questions are related to one liners.

Say I have a file to be replaced that has the following:

$ cat testing.txt
TESTING
AAA
BBB...

Hi rdcwayx,

Appreciate your code. Much simplier then mine.

I should have been more clear. What you gave me did exactly as the code i put in my post with the exception of the second "print...

hey thanks alot Franklin...major help...thanks, I'm almost there...

I modified the following from you...


awk '
/version/ {
print $0
getline
print $0
if ($0 != "<letters>")
...

I'm trying to read an xml file and copy it line by line to another file and want to preserve the tabs.

What i'm trying to do is if I get to a certain line in the xml, I'm going to check to see if...

crap...i thought i had it but i forgot to add a small detail...please see if you guys can help me with this...

this relates to cfa's statement:

eval "grep 'something' \"\$${i}FILE\" >...

thank you ghostdog, bakunin and cfajohnson...between the three of you, i've got it taken cared of...

i'm going to take ghostdog and bakunin's suggestion of referenceing the file directly...i...

hey guys,

I'm trying to call and modify multiple files inside the for loop, i can't get it to work...

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AFILE=/dir/a_file.txt
BFILE=/dir/b_file.txt...

it's kind of funny cus i actually spent about 30 mins on google before i came back on here...

but i think i got something that will improvise...i'll post something back if it works as expected or...

it's kind of funny cus i actually spent about 30 mins on google before i came back on here...

but i think i got something that will improvise...i'll post something back if it works as expected or...

the most popular ones on distrowatch seems to be PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE and Fedora.

any tips, suggestions you can give this super newb about choosing something?

i'd like to do a dual...

inputfile:

A B C D
E F G H
1 2 3 4

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I want to read these and put them into a variable:

file=../inputfile
col2line1=`cat $file | awk '{print $2}'`

how do i extract row 2's...

hey thanks a bunch guys!!!

jim, you hit the nail in the face...

porter, it didn't work but has taught me to be more efficient...thanks!

for file in `ls *.txt`
do
sed '/s/old/new/g' $file > /tmp/tempfile.tmp
mv /tmp/tempfile.tmp $file
done

the txt files names look like "text file one.txt", "text file two.txt"

but when I run...