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I am so sorry..
yes, i would prefer explanation..so, please provide...

It is printing line 13-31 ,,73-91,,133-151 etc whereas i want to print from line 34-74, 94-134 etc...
A quick reply would be of great help

Not exactly. this is the reason i am asking you so that i can change the parameter so that it can work as per my requirement...

Can you please describe how it is working?

First 14 lines has to be deleted. Actually no.s quoted by me can vary. As an e.g we can take that i want to print lines no 34-74 then 94-134 then 154 -174 and so on.

i.e. i want to print fixed...

Hello,

I have file of more than 10000 lines.

I want to delete 40 lines after every 20 lines.

e.g from a huge file, i want to delete line no from 34 - 74, then 94 - 134 etc and so on.
...

Hi, your awk command is running fine. Can you please explain how it is working so that I can modify it further if i want to change field separator.

Both the codes are not fulfilling my requirement. Codes are reversing all the alphabets irrespective of field separator.

e.g. my file has
abc & def & ghi

required output : ghi & def & abc
...

Hello,

I have a file:
xandyandz
x & y & z
x*y*z*a

I require output as:
zandyandx
z & y & x
a*z*y*x

here all lines have different field seperator (and & * )based on that i want to...

Hi Michael, can you please explain what it is doing specially section -e 'x' ??

Hello Binlib,
I got your idea & now i am fetching line no and reducing that to 1 and then running sed command. its working fine...
thanks!!!

Hello dcwayx,
I could not get awk command posted by...

Hello,

I have few lines to be inserted in file_lines_to_insert.
In another file final_file, I have to add lines from above file file_lines_to_insert before a particular pattern.

e.g.
$ cat...

Hello Scrutinizer,

I have almost same requirement as of this post. Just one change, I want to insert these lines before a pattern of file1.
Can you pl. tell me how can I do it?

Hi,
Seeing your error, seems you have not put a space between expr and ${old}. Use below command.
a1=`expr $old / 50`

Hi
You can also use:
grep -w '1\.' inputfile

It will search the exact pattern "1." and capable of filter "1" also if present.

Its working perfectly in linux. Thanks a lot!!

If possible, Can you suggest something which is compatible in solaris also as this is not running is solaris :(

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I want to delete a line between selected lines using sed:
e.g. : Between "bus" to "pins", delete lines conaining "signal" word.
Input :

bus
direction
signal new
signal old
pins
signal ok...

Thanks drl,

Its working fine when my files are named with file.
Can you tell me the procedure/code from where i can give the name of my files as arguments?

thanks once again
priyanka

Actually my need is that any line in the four files should not be same
e.g.
cat File1
neha
pg

cat file2
aru
arin

cat file3
sample
apple

cat file4
apple
neha
juice

You can use below command:
sed 's/( *[a-z]* *[A-Z]* *)//g' mycsvfile

I have four files, I need to compare these files together.
As such i know "sdiff and comm" commands but these commands compare 2 files together. If I use sdiff command then i have to compare each...

If you are using linux environment, insert below line in your script dos2unix file

If solaris, then dos2unix file > file2
\mv file2 file
actually this problem usually occurs when you are taking...

I am referring the icon tray in linux environment which holds all the icon of all the terminals opened by us

Thanks,

its working fine:)

Hello,

I am getting problem in awk command during matching (using if in awk) when there is special character "[" or "]"
I have tried by loosing the special meaning, still its not working
...