Both OSX and Ubuntu offer vim instead of vi, so that is probably where the difference comes from. I just tried it on RHEL5.8 (or rather CentOS 5.8) and it does not work there either...
Something to keep in mind when choosing how to pass commands to ex: When ex (and ed) are reading commands from standard input, they abort with a meaningful exit status at the first sign of trouble. However, with ex, when commands are given as an option-argument (ed doesn't support this), if there's an error, ex will prompt for another command and wait. In this case, for example, if there was no line matching /5555/, ex would not quit. Usually (but not always), this is not ideal.
Also, the output of that command depends on local settings. It may or may not print a line number. If the output is to be processed by a script, this adds unnecessary complexity (either settings need to be overridden or something downstream needs to handle both possible formats).
In my opinion, the simplicity of ed would be an asset for this task.
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I get an empty line...
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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
I tried it on Ubuntu and OSX...
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I dont have Ubuntu but the ex command works on my hpux aix solaris and rhel boxes so frankly im at a loss...
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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Both OSX and Ubuntu offer vim instead of vi, so that is probably where the difference comes from. I just tried it on RHEL5.8 (or rather CentOS 5.8) and it does not work there either...
Using an old debian where ex is ViM 7.0, I see the desired line prepended by its line number. The mystery deepens.
Perhaps it's related to your ex/vi rc file. What if you use /5555/-2p?
Hi Experts,
I am trying to get system output to capture inside awk , but not working:
Please advise if this is possible :
I am trying something like this but not working, the output is coming wrong:
echo "" | awk '{d=system ("date") ; print "Current date is:" , d }'
Thanks, (5 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
im using ls -l | xargs | awk '{what ever files here}'
im trying to get something that looks like this... (7 Replies)
I have a script problem that I am not able to solve due my very limited understanding of unix/awk.
This is the contents of test.sh
awk '{print $1}'
From the prompt if I enter:
./test.sh Hello World
I would expect to see "Hello" but all I get is a blank line. Only then if I enter "Hello... (2 Replies)
Can anyone help with this this one liner:
nawk -v RS='' '$1=$1' InputFile
What I have in the file:
0.0013985457223116
-0.0002338180925628
0.0
0.0003709430584958
-0.0005763523138347
0.0
And the output I want:
0.0013985457223116 -0.0002338180925628 0.0
0.0003709430584958... (1 Reply)
How I can rid of the following presentation du -sk /u*/oradata/TEST/*.dbf |awk '{print total+=$1} 1.28003e+06
4.35109e+06
4.36134e+06
4.4535e+06
5.47752e+06
5.48777e+06
7.52554e+06
7.73036e+06
9.06158e+06
:confused: thank you (3 Replies)
I am trying to read through a file, gather the states in that file and change it from an abbreviation to the ful text.
Can anyone provide some assistance.
Thanks!! (4 Replies)
i have a little awk script that I use looks this:
awk '{if (FNR==1){print FILENAME; print $0}else print $0}' file1...file2....fi... > bundled.
i have completely forgotten how to unbundle this. I have tried several different approaches and still can not remember how to unbundle the file bundled.... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have the following command that does 2 searches.
awk '{if ($0 ~ /STRING1/) {c++} }{if ( c == 2 ) {sub(/STRING1/,"NEWSTRING") } } { print }' FILE
How do I search up after the first search?
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I have the following error:
ls -lt | awk 'BEGIN NR > 1 { print $2, $9 }'
Syntax Error The source line is 1.
The error context is
BEGIN >>> NR <<< > 1 { print $2, $9 }
awk: 0602-500 Quitting The source line is 1.
What I want to do is ls a directory, skip the first... (3 Replies)
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