9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
In the below directory I am trying to delete all lines with a .bam extention that have the pattern IonCode_ followed by an even number. I am also trying to delete all lines with a .fastq extention that have the pattern IonCode_ followed by an odd number. I was going to use find but can see all... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
6 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have written a script that returns the line number of the pattern i want and i stored the line number in a variable.Now i want to delete all the lines in a file above this line number which is stored in a variable.
i am using sed '1,$getlinenumberd' > file1.txt which is not working(wrog... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: learninguser235
5 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have written a script that returns the line number of the pattern i want and i stored the line number in a variable(getlinenumber).Now i want to delete all the lines in a file above this line number which is stored in a variable.
i am using sed '1,$getlinenumberd' > file1.txt which is... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: learninguser235
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
What I'm trying to do is delete every blank line upto a certain number, so for instance I only want to delete the first 4 empty lines within a file, I know how to delete every line with:
sed '/^$/d'
But I can't figure out how to limit it to only the first 4 occourances
I though it... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: duonut
5 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am using the following command to delete a line from the file by line number:
line_number=14
sed "${line_number}d" inputfilename > newfilename
Is there a way to modify this command to specify the range of lines to be deleted, lets say from line 14 till line 5 ?
I tried using the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: aoussenko
5 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with ~200K lines, I need to delete 4K lines in it. There is no range.
I do have the line numbers of the lines which I want to be deleted.
I did tried using
> cat del.lines
sed '510d;12d;219d;......;3999d' file
> source del.lines
Word too long.
I even tried... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: novice_man
2 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have file with 10000 records and i need to delete the lines in single shot based on line number range say from 10 to 51 , 53 to 59 , 105 to 107, 311 to 592 etc... between range works fine for me but how to achive for above case? please help
sed '10,51 {d}' infile > outfile (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: zooby
5 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
E.g. the file is like this:
I want to delete all lines that begin with a number larger than 2, ignoring the lines that doesn't begin with a number!
PS:'2' is actually a variable that can have a lot of values:b:i bet you got it (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: hakermania
10 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have been googling, but cannot find that works for me.
I have a text file tmp.out with contents:
sadfsdf sdfosuidhfousdhof soduhf osdfu osudfhosudhfd
sdfgsdfg
asdfiojhsdf asdoludhflsdjfhskldjfhsdjdlfsjdhnlj h sdja
ouahsdjdafkljsa
oljhljh
I have another file... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: ChicagoBlues
11 Replies