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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file that includes strings with special characters, eg
file1
line: 1 - special 1
line: = 4
line; -3
etc
How can I grep the lines of file1 from file2, line by line?
I used fgrep and egrep to grep a particular line and worked fine, but when I used:
cat file1|while read line;do... (2 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a BASH script where I would like to identify all the lines of a text file that match specific pattern, and then erase them one by one. The ultimate goal will be to identify all the lines matching the pattern, and then for each line identified prompt the user whether or not to erase... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi! i've been reading you guys for some time, now there is something I couldn't find here,
I'm trying to purge some data for my thesis but my measurements have some gaps in the third columns.
The solution is simple,
-Erase those lines where the third column is empty
¿How?
example... (1 Reply)
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi Experts,
here is a background to my problem :
I am exporting data from teradata using fastexport utility, as varchar data.
This pads additional two bytes (2 places as seen in notepad) in the resultset.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I have a rather unusual problem, which i have not faced till now. I have a script which exports some paths to a text file. The script runs fine but when i check the output file i can see some junk characters ^M appended at end of lines and random places. I am not able to figure... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have an oracle database, I am trying to query the database and route it to file.
But the records instead of coming in a single line, are coming in three lines.
Can you please help me.. in this..
sqlplus -s $SRMUserid/$SRMPassword@$SRMServer<< EOF >log.out;
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I know this should be simple, but I've been manning sed awk grep and find and am stupidly stumped :(
I'm trying to use sed (or awk, find, etc) to find 4 characters on the second line of a file.txt 44-47 characters in. I can find lots of sed things for lines, but not characters. (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello friendz,
dfl;g435hkd.fg
..this is what I am getting. I want to print strings without junk chars.
I want to exactly like this... dflg435hkd.fg ...need some specific operators also. for example, dot or comma should allow.
plz help me out ya!
~Balan:confused: (1 Reply)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to delete all the files with line number less than 100 in a directory. Thank you. (5 Replies)
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I know this has been asked previously on this forum...But I think I have a different scenario to present.
I ahve a file tht looks like this (note:there are control Z and other chars tht are not visible on line with anme bowers)
BB7118450 6004718 BIANCALANA =HEI
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