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Kudos for you, RudiC!

Yes, the offending lines become less numerous as I run the code and process again the resulting lines. It works perfect for me!

Thanks again RudiC!

Shall we close the thread?

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Here is the non-blanked out words file.

Yes, always the same words.

Worked like magic!

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Final result: approx 1200 words didn't come out with any letter blanked out out of a total of 48k. I can't see any patterns or...

That's what I would need to be incorporated into an Excel sheet.

A ransom ... has been made for the kidnapped racehorse. \t _ _ m _ nd
A third of the country's population is of mixed racial ......

Wow, RudiC, that's awesome!
A final thought: how could I add a blank space when 2 underscores are together?

Great help!

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Forget it! I figured it out...

INPUTFILE


a true … of Islam \t follower
the recent … of two CIA agents \t disappearance
The restructuring is designed to give a sharper … on key markets. \t focus
a large country house...

Hi there,
first of all this is not homework...this is a new type of exercise for practicing vocabulary with my students.
I have a file consisting of two columns, separated by a tab, each line...

input:

you you do do you you did
she got did she get did she got she gotten
are makeing making are making is making
usually have has usually usually has have...

Yes!

file contents:

you / you do / do you / you did
she got / did she get / did she got / she gotten
are makeing / making / are making / is making
usually have / has usually / usually has /...

It worked!! It worked!! Yep! :)

A long story as I am working on a Mac. First you have to install HOMEBREW brew install coreutils, change the order shuf to gshuf.
Also, you have to update your...

Yep, both scripts work...as log as the options to be shuffled are single letters/words (eg. A, B...just, never, ever...) but, what about if the options are groups or words?

Option A Option B ...

Uff, thanks rdrtx1m but I am not sure how to use this code...i am such a newbie. ...still trying to figure it out...

I promise it is not homework...on the contrary, I am a teacher.

Hi there, friends!

Writing exams again! This time my wish would be to randomize certain columns in a csv file. Given a file containing records consisting of 3 columns tab-separated:

A B C
A B...

Thanks done, perfect piece of code. Saved me headaches! :b:

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Yeah, thanks too Scrutinizer... This one...

Great solution. but could the output words be shown in new lines or separated by slashes. That would be great!!

:b:

Hi there, Unixers

I need to extract ALL the words from a text which aresurrounded by square brackets. I am using this piece of code

sed 's/.*\[\(.*\)\].*/\1/g' inputfile > outputfile

but I...

Yes, Oh, man! absolutely!
Thanx for the time you have saved me.

can't get the second bit of code to work

(btw the file's name is file

iMacAA:~ eldeingles$ sed -i "s/\[[^]]*/[ /g" file
sed: 1: "file": invalid command code f

...:wall:

Yes, Scott!

Quite near,

yeah, both pieces of code list differently the bracketed words in the text, but I would also need the text with the empty brackets, such as this:

... I met an old [ ] friend last...

Hi there, Unix Gurus

Back in September last year you helped me find a way to extract the words in brackets in a textfile to a new one...

yeah, bartus11, you nailed it!!

I just didn't guess where to put that '\t'

Wow, great!