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hi,
while in vi, we use /string to look for the particular string. after that operation, the particular string is highlighted in yellow color.
how do i take the highlight off?
thanks so much.

Hi,
when using vi editor, why do i automatically create swap file. this is very hard on me as on some systems i do not have remove file permission and swap file is only readable. it always happens...

hi,
i have had it with windows. i downloaded ubuntu desktop edition on my c drive. i downloaded it on windows. when starting, it asks me if i want to start windows or ubuntu.
i have a question?...

this is very helpful thanks.

hi,
i am aa unix amateur and i am using tsh, csh and bash most of the time.
i have been looking over the net to find a summary of the differences in command syntax for example:
in csh and tsh you...

linux ubuntu GNU/Linux.

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no,unfortunately. no error or anything but no output.
i am really...

i got putty installed on windows xp.

awk '$2==$4' FS=\t filename
this is the only one which gave an output but displays both lines.

i tried awk '$2==$4' filename
awk ' $2==$4 ' filename
awk...

my file contains:
march 2008 january 2008
march 1920 march 2002

awk ' $2==$4 ' filename
no output.

so sorry, by ID i did not mean unix network id.
i meant id as in class number or a 10 digit phone number.
how to display a patter of number within a file?

but anyways, i have putty installed on...

i have a file, let's call it file.

march 2008 january 2008
march 1920 march 2002

i want to output the first line, not the second as you can see the second line has different numbers.

Raj,
thanks for the effort buddy.
unfortunately there is no output on the screen despite the fact that some files do have
4 digit numbers.
doesn't work.

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how can i list all files in my home directory that have a 4 digit id number, the line number where the id is located and the id itself not printing the entire line?

thank you.

is i want to sort or delete lines etc etc to a file, how do i save the changes.

example i do sort file > file
when i do cat file, all data is erased.
thanks.

perfect. thanks.

if i have a file test and have a number(123)456-7899
how do i delete this without deleting all digits in the file.
parentheses isn't necessary.

thanks anbu,
but if i were to add a line : doing"today"here to my file test,
it won't print that line out since the double quote isn't at the end of sentence.

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Hello,
i have a file called test

hello1
"how" are you4
good"bye"
good7bye

i am trying to print all lines from test that either end with a digit or contain a double quote character anywhere...

#!/bin/bash
filename=~/.animals $1 $2
is_in_file=`grep $name $filename`
if [ -n "$is_in_file" ]; then
echo $is_in_file | cut -d= -f2
else
echo " $1=$2" >> $filename

not...

i made this script

zoo.sh:

#!/bin/bash
filename=~/.animals
echo -n "Enter an animal name: "
read name
is_in_file=`grep $name $filename`
if [ -n "$is_in_file" ]; then
...