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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Could you please help me how to search the string in a file, and when found; change the existing line to uppercase in command line?
I tried:
?whichcommand? -A "EXT" fileA | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | tee fileB
tr command simply converts entire file to uppercase but this is not what... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I'm trying to insert a new line at the before each comment line in a file.
Comment lines start with '#-----'
there are other comments with in lines but I don't want a new line there.
Example file:
blah
blah #do not insert here
#this is a comment
blah #some more
#another comment... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mudshark
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to find all rows in 1st col of one file in another file (first occurrence) and replace the 1st col of first file with the grep result (the entire line). For example search AA from file 1 in file 2 and replace in file 1 by entire line found.
File1
AA BB CC DD
BB AA CC DDFile2
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ritakadm
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am attempting to grep an exact string from a series of files within a directory and append that output to the filename when it is present in the file. I've been after this all day with no luck. Thanks for your help in advance :wall:. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: JC_1
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Right now, my code is:
s/Secondary Ins./Secondary Ins.\
1/g
It's adding a 1 as soon as it finds Secondary Ins.
Primary Ins.: MEDICARE B DMERC Secondary Ins.
1: CONTINENTAL LIFE INS
What I really want to achieve is having a 1 added on the next line that contain "Secondary Ins." It... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbeee
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
1_strings file contains
$ cat 1_strings
/home/$USER/Src
/home/Valid
/home/Review$ cat myxml
<projected value="some string" path="/home/$USER/Src">
<input 1/>
<estimate value/>
<somestring/>
</projected>
<few more lines >
<projected value="some string" path="/home/$USER/check">... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: greet_sed
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Everyone,
I just started scripting this week. I have no background in programming or scripting.
I'm working on a script to grep for a variable in a log file
Heres what the log file looks like. The x's are all random clutter
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx START: xxxxxxxxxxxx... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: rxc23816
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I know how to grep, copy and paste a string from a line. Now, what i want to do is to find a string and print a string from the line below it. To demonstrate:
Name 1: ABC Age: 3
Sex: Male
Name 2: DEF Age: 4
Sex: Male
Output:
3 Male
I know how to get "3". My biggest problem is to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kingpeejay
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've seen several examples of grep showing the filename the string was found in, but what I really need is grep to show the file details in long format (like ls -l would).
scenario is:
grep mobile_number todays_files
This will show me the string I'm after & which files they turn up in, but... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: woodstock
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all
Im performing find + grep operation that looks like this :
find . -name "*.dsp" | xargs grep -on Project.lib | grep -v ':0'
and I like to add to this one liner the possibility to replace the string " Project.lib" that found ( more then once in file ) with "Example.lib"
how can I do... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: umen
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