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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to remove columns 81-97 from a line that can be as long as 114 characters. Because a number of lines might not have under 80 characters, using the cut command following by paste could be a problem. While sed might work, is there some other utility that could do this more easily?
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
This could be a really dummy question.
I have a log text file.
What unix command to extract line from specific string to another specific string.
Is it something similar to?:
more +/"string" file_name
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, i have a file containing nrows and 3cols. i want to cut it in specific length and save output to individual files.
1 2 3
4 5 6
5 8 9
10 11 12
13 14 15
16 17 18
i need to cut the file say every 2 rows and save it in individual file.
01.dat contains
1 2 3
4 5 6
02.dat
7 8 9... (10 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
how do I go about cutting out the first numeric characters after the word "access"?
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
testfile.csv
0","1125209",,"689202CBx18888",,"49",,,"NONMC",,,,,"01112010",,,,,,,"MTM-
"1","",,"689202ABx19005",,"49",,,"NONMC",,,,,"01072010",,,,,,,"MTM-
testfile.csv looks like above format
if the second column is null then get 23rd column and store in a different varible .. add all the... (1 Reply)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear All,
Is there a way to cut the lines that have been "head"
Here is what i m trying to do Please advice
there is file name dummy.txt
now i am trying to head this file 4 time by using a loop and every time this file is head with different values
e.g in first instance it will... (7 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
First I have to say thank you to this community and this forum. You helped me very much builing several useful scripts.
Now, I can't get a solution the following problem, I'm stuck somehow. Maybe someone has an idea.
In short, I dump a site via lynx and pipe the output in a file. I need to... (7 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
are there any basic commands that can display lines 99 - 101 of the /etc/passwd file?
I'm thinking use of head and tail, but I forget what numbers to use and where to put /etc/passwd in the command. (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi falks,
I have the following configuration file structure:
file1:N
file2:Y
file3:Y
file4:N
......
I need to cut from the configuration file only the file with the sign "Y" in the end and copy it to some directory.
What is the best way to do it?
Thanks in advance,
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have this problem of separating 10 consecutive lines from a file, say starting from 21 to 30... I have used a filter like this..
head -n 30 myfile | tail -n 10
Is there a simpler way than this? (2 Replies)
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