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This works. But on my real dataset, I still have a problem.

The problem is that I need

sed -E -e "s/ord[^[:space:]]+//g" file.txt

With "ord" to work, too. So it needs to be "wild carded"...

Hi, I have a tab delimited text file like this one. I need to do a partial match of a particular cell and then replace matches with an empty cell. So here is a sample:
...

Hm, that doesn't seem to be working. I tried using tr with [:digit:] but with no use. Any other ideas? Sorry I am not proficient with sed

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Hi, I need to replace a character between two numbers (specifically a - to a _). The problem is that they can be *any* numbers. So, I need a one liner to turn a file like this:

1-2
3-4
55-66...

PERFECT! Thank you!

Hi, I have a tab delimited columnar file where I want to remove lines wherever two particular columns match. so for this file, I want to toss the lines where columns 1 and 2 match:
a a 1 3
a b 2 4...

Hi,

I need some help with the following: I need all lines in a file divisible by three, so for a file like this:

1
11
111

I want to add characters to make them all divisible by three...

Hi, I have a question.

I have a file that I need to do two things to.

The first thing I need to do is turn a file with lines before and after a line with the term "Acceptance" into only the...

Hi,
I have a string of letters that are upper and lower case. I would like to replace all the lowercase letters with N. Also, there are only 4 letters, so it may be easier to replace each lower...

THANK YOU AGAIN!

There was a missing curly bracket in there on the second line. I must be a real expert now ;)


NR==1
NR>1{ for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) { a[i]+=$i; }}
END { if (NR > 1) {...

Hi,
I was just helped with an excellent one liner. Now I need to know how to turn it into a script that I can call at the command line. So, this works with file script:

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for file...

Hi, Thanks!
Well, the first two columns, Iteration and Tree No are actually both not significant to me. But, I figured that whatever code would be easiest if it could be applied to all columns. ...

Hi,

I have a file with multiple tab delimited columns and I would like to have the average of each column:

Iteration Tree No Lh HMean
1000 1 -78.834717 -78.834717 ...

thanks AGAIN!

Hi there,

I have two questions. First, I was wondering how to use sed to remove two header lines or two tail lines. Here I just do the same operation twice...I'm sure there is a better way. ...

Perfect!!!
Thanks!

Hi,
I would like to take the first column of a bunch of lines and take only the 6th through 15th characters. The first column are not regular.


gbAY277147.1Ptv3.T1469 CTTGAACAT...

hm
when I use
awk '{printf( "%s\n", $1 ) }' ZZline_char > ZZline_char1

it prints each number onto a separate line. the thing is that i want the first column from two rows from ZZline_char on...

well i did this

cat ZZlinecount ZZcharcount > ZZline_char #make one file from two
awk '{printf $1 " "}' ZZline_char > ZZline_char1 #get the first column


and that WORKED...

Thanks!
I just can't believe how much you are helping me solve a major issue!!!
I have another couple of questions.
I needed to rearrange some of the columns in the datafile.
I was able to do...

and what i meant by horrify was about my horrible newbie script!!!

OK, here is something to horrify the unix programmers. here i am trying to analyze the datafile "fake", i am trying to do a couple of things

take the lines between matrix and end.
remove first...

Wow, agama, thanks!

ok, this is my first real use of awk, more or less. here goes:

/_X/ || /_Y/
means search for exactly _X or _Y
print that line, then move onto the next line
then, there...

Hi,
I have a file that looks like this:

a_X data
a_Y data
b data
c data
d_X data
d_Y data

I **want** to duplicate the lines without the _X and _Ys. In other words, I want it to look...

Hi-

I am newish to the mac osx unix interface. I want to set up top so that it always displays the username. I can use this command to do this:

top -ocpu -P ' PID COMMAND %CPU TIME ...