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Hey Chubler_XL and agama,

Thanks for your help! Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I tried running agama's code but it doesn't seem to be doing anything to the file (weird). I tried Chubler's...

Hi folks,

I am scraping data from the Internet that has the format similar to what's on this page -- Trigger Notice Report (http://ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/trigger/2011/trig_021311.html)

The...

Fair enough Alister :-) Thanks, I'll use tr from now on :)

Thanks agama! I wonder if I can get your advice on wrapping this all up into a nice shell script. I have several of these text files that are generated through another script and land up in a folder....

'awk --version' gives 'mawk: not an option: --version'. 'man awk' gives the man page for mawk. Should I get something else?

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Hi agama, I just gave your code a try. It says awk: line 27: illegal reference to array a
.

Hello folks

I have a txt file of information about journal articles from different fields. I need to convert this information into a format that is easier for computers to manipulate for some...

Thanks to both of you. In addition, my way of doing it (from ARCHIVED: How do I convert between Unix and Mac OS or Mac OS X text files? - Knowledge Base (http://kb.iu.edu/data/agiz.html)) is awk '{...

Hello folks

I am working on a project that requires me to write a script that operates on a bunch of text files. When I try less file.txt I see a bunch of ^M's everywhere. Some Googling tells me...

Hey Linuxkid,

There are many different types of shell implementations, ranging from ksh, to csh, to bash. Most coding these days, I'm told, is done on bash (you'll get more information if you wiki...

Hi Cristoph

That takes out what I need, but again, it seems to delete parts of the script that it isn't meant to. For some reason, it removes the first 100 odd lines of script as well. I would...

Thanks Guru. I ran the awk command you suggested. It certainly removes what I wanted, but it also seems to be knocking out some other parts of the file, that are essential.

I tried presenting the...

Thanks everyone.

That works perfectly well for the filetype I mentioned. Now, the problem is that I have to take out the line immediately preceding the first pattern as well.

That is, if the...

Hey folks

I have a big file that contains junk data between the tags <point> and </point> and I need to delete it (including `<point>' and `</point>').

i.e.

a = 1
<point>
123123
2342352...

That too :-)

Thanks again.

@methyl - Thanks

@eclipseagent - My code was the same as yours and wasn't working. I finally realized that I had been forgetting to do `chmod +x <filename>'! It works now. Thanks for helping me...

Hey folks

My problem is simple. For my first stash of movies, I used a naming convention of YEAR_MOVIE_NAME__QUALITY/ for each movie folder. For example, if I had a 1080p print of Minority Report,...

Thanks. It fixes the immediate problem, but I'm curious as to why the RANDOM variable doesn't work inside the script, and I didn't fully understand the symlink explanation. Can you elaborate?

Hey guys

So I've just moved to a new machine, and reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 from scratch. I first tried
$ echo $RANDOM
in the shell. It works.
Then, when I tried the same command as a one line...

No luck. Same output

Hi folks

I'm coding on Ubuntu 9.04 standard shell.

I'm writing a script that needs to generate a random number at some point of its execution.

When I do
echo $RANDOMas a command inside...

Hello there. I am trying to write a simple script that pulls the date on which the system was last shutdown (stored in a file called 'last_shutdown') and today's date (the days only) and compares the...

Sorry I'm a complete novice and may have done something wrong. I tried exactly what you had written above. It only seems to create a folder title `{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}'.

Update
I realized...

Hi

I want to write a small script that will create folders named from `AAAA' all the way to `ZZZZ'.

That is:
`AAAA'
`AAAB'
`AAAC'
...
`AABA'
`AABB'
`AABC'
...
`ABAA'
`ABAB'
`ABAC'...

Thanks muchly :)