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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file that i want to take only the first part of it and discard the rest, to be accurate,I need the first 137097 lines but I cant use split because I dont have enough space on my disck. I need sth to cut the file in its place (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to insert text from one file into another file after specific term. I guess sed is the best method of doing this and I can insert a specified text string using this script but I am not sure how to modify it to insert text from another file:
#!/bin/sh
sed 's/\<VirtualHost... (17 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I want to create a file and then insert some text into it. I'm trying to create a .sh script that will create a new python file from a template.
Can someone tell me why this won't work,
touch $1 | sed -e '1i\Some test code here'
Sorry I'm quite new to all this!
Just as a side... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
without using conventional file searching commands like find etc, is it possible to locate a file if i just know that the file that i'm searching for contains a particular text like "Hello world" or something? (5 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a tab delimited text file with multiple columns (data.txt). I would like to insert a column into the text file. The column I want to insert is in a text file (column.txt). I want to insert it into the 5th column of data.txt. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I use zentyal for my server admin, which is great but zentyal auto-generates config file on boot and hence overwrites any changes made directly to config files. In order to allow multiple user access to a MS ACCESS database, I need to customise the smb.conf file and add the following line to the... (9 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
Can somebody please help me with the following script?
I'm trying to create a text file with 20 blank lines and then insert a string in line 2 but nothing is printed in the itxtfile. I can create the file with 20 blank lines but when I "tell" it to print something on the second line, it... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: goude
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am in a dire need of doing this job , please help from shell script or perl script. It will be highly appreciated.
Please have a look at the following INPUT file;
The first 14 rows are not of interest but I want them to be included in the output file as they are. From the row 14... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: digipak
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a simple question:
I need to enter some text in a text file at a certain place via perl.
I would first need to find that specific text in the file and then I would like to insert a line after that particular line.
Say I have this text file:
I am a great Perl Programmer
I... (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have written a script to start websphere server, I dont know where to put
the file in the OS . please put me the place to put the starup scripts in linux, solaris and AIX? (2 Replies)
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