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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Sed command to replace a line in a file using line number from the output of a pipe.
Is it possible to replace a whole line piped from someother command into a file at paritcular line...
here is some basic execution flow..
the line number is 412
lineNo=412
Now i have a line... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vivek d r
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
my requirement is,
consider a file output
cat output
blah sdjfhjkd jsdfhjksdh
sdfs 23423 sdfsdf sdf"sdfsdf"sdfsdf"""""dsf
hellow there
this doesnt look good
et cetc etc
etcetera
i want to replace a line of line number 4 ("this doesnt look good") with some other line
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vivek d r
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
my file has thousands of line but let me show what i want to achieve... here is one line from that file
cat fileName.txt
(2,'','user3002,user3003','USER_DATA_SINGLE',1,0,0,'BACKUP',2,NULL,0,450,NULL,NULL,'','2011-05-10... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: vivek d r
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Does anyone know how to use awk to act like grep from a particular line number to the end of file? I am using Solaris 10 and I don't have any GNU products installed.
Say I want to print all occurrences of red starting at line 3 to the end of file.
EXAMPLE FILE:
red
green
red
red... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: thibodc
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all,
I am trying to extract a number from a line in one file (task 1), duplicate another file (task 2) and replace all instances of the strings 300, in duplicated with the extracted number (task 3). Here is what I have tried so far:
for ((k=1;k<4;k++)); do
temp=`sed -n "${k}p"... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mnaqvi
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I wrote an awk script to analyse file A.
I call the script with files A and B. File A has lines like:
000000033100001
000000036100001
000000039100001
The first 9 characters are interpreted as a line number;
for each line number found I want to output this line number of file B.
... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: kpg
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Alright, I'm sure there's a more efficient way to do this... I'm not an expert by any means. What I'm trying to do is search a file for lines that match the two input words (first name, last name) in order to remove that line. The removal part is what I'm struggling with. Here is my code:
echo... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: lazypeterson
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys,
I want to do pattern matching with awk or sed but I don't know how. here's what I want:
I have a line number for a pattern that I have already found using grep, and I know a pattern like "---" that happens a few lines above that certain line number. I want to print out the chunk... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: alirezan
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
may someone easily help me on this :
I want to insert a text in a specific line number like :
linenumb2start=`cat memory_map.dld | nl -ba | egrep -i "label" | cut -f1`
line2insert=`expr $linenumb2start + 2`
and now I need to replace something like {} with {comment} at... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: homefp
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have to update last line of a text file with the number of lines in that file. This last line will have text such as 0.0000 and I should replace this with number lines. If lines are 20 then it should be replaced with 00020. Any sed or awk cmd help would be appreciated (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bmkux
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