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Works a treat, thanks very much.

I usually look at awk and feel a bit ill ;)

Good day ladies and gents,

I'm trying to write shell code that can give ignore everything else in a line bar the last character but not having much luck.

Any ideas? I have been looking at cut...

For the awk command I didn't get an error message but it didn't do what I wanted.

However, I've played around with the code you provided and I got it to work accordingly.

Thanks.

I tried the code above but it didn't trim the last 3 lines of the file.

Hi,

I'm trying to use sed to delete the last three lines of a file. I currently have:


# get the amount of lines in the file
foldernum=`wc -l File_In.txt | cut -c1-8`
# remove the lines in...

I exited shell, and started it again and got it to work, not entirely sure why it didn't work before, but it does now!

Thanks for the assistance, it does exactly what I want it to now. :b:

Gave that a try but didn't work. Thanks for the help though.



Tried echo "$VAR" | sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/.*/s%&%%g/' | sed -f - file.txt >file_processed but got the error sed: newline or...

Hi, I'm a bit of sed n00b here.

My issue is as follows:

I'm trying to pass a variable to sed so that all instances of this variable (in a text file) will be replaced with nothing. However, the...