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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I'm looking for a way (sed or awk) to delete multiple lines between blank lines containing two patterns ex:
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 15
parameter_2 = 1
parameter_3 = 0
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 15
parameter_2 = 1
parameter_3 = 0
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 16... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i have a set of similar files. i want to delete lines until certain pattern appears in those files. for a single file the following command can be used but i want to do it for all the files at a time since the number is in thousands.
awk '/PATTERN/{i++}i' file (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to use sed or awk to delete single lines in a file. By single, I mean lines that are not touching any other lines (just one line with white space above and below).
Example:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
I want it to look like: (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: slimjbe
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hey guys,
I tried searching but most 'search and replace' questions are related to one liners.
Say I have a file to be replaced that has the following:
$ cat testing.txt
TESTING
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
ENDTESTING
This is the input file: (3 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
I have a very huge file (4GB) which has duplicate lines. I want to delete duplicate lines leaving unique lines. Sort, uniq, awk '!x++' are not working as its running out of buffer space.
I dont know if this works : I want to read each line of the File in a For Loop, and want to... (16 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hiiii
I have a file which contains huge data as
a.dat:
PDE 1990 1 9 18 51 28.90 24.7500 95.2800 118.0 6.1 0.0 BURMA
event name: 010990D
time shift: 7.3000
half duration: 5.0000
latitude: 24.4200
longitude: 94.9500
depth: 129.6000
Mrr: ... (7 Replies)
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7. AIX
I have a rather large file that needs lines deleted periodically. How may I accomplish this task? Should I run into an error message "not enough disk space" AIX 5.3
Thanks (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
First of all, I know this can be more eassily done with perl or other scripting languages but, that's not the issue. I need this in sed. (or wander if it's possible )
I got a file (trace file to recreate the control file from oracle for the dba boys)
which contains
some lines
another line... (11 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Input:
a
b
b
c
d
d
I need:
a
c
I know how to get this (the lines that have duplicates) :
b
d
sort file | uniq -d
But i need opossite of this. I have searched the forum and other places as well, but have found solution for everything except this variant of the problem. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: necroman08
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I want to delete first five and last five lines in text files without opening the file and also i want to keep the same file name for all the files.
Thanks in advance!!!
Ragav (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: ragavendran31
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