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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a file with contents:
NAMES
John
carrey
williams
How can I get all the names and store them in seperate variables(or arrays)
please keep in mind that the no. of such names is not known.Three here is a bogus value
~thanks (4 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear all,
I have a question. I have a txt file say 4000 rows X 1800 Column. I 'd like to creat a new column as the first column which is a column of random numbers (n=4000)
thanks a lot!
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file that needs to be parsed into multiple files every time there line contains a number 1. the problem i face is the lines are random and the file size is random. an example is that on line 4, 65, 187, 202 & 209 are number 1's so there has to be file breaks between all those to create 4... (6 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a diff command that does what I want but when comparing large text/log files, it uses up all the memory I have (sometimes over 8gig of memory)
diff file1.txt file2.txt | grep '^<'| awk '{$1="";print $0}' | sed 's/^ *//'
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I have two files (A and B) and want to combine them to one by always taking 10 rows from file A and subsequently 6 lines from file B. This process shall be repeated 40 times (file A = 400 lines; file B = 240 lines).
Does anybody have an idea how to do that using perl, awk or sed?... (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have one base file, and multiple target files-- each have uniform line structure so no need to use grep to find things-- can just define sections by line number.
My question is quite simple-- can I use sed to copy a defined block of lines (say lines 5-10) from filename1.txt to overwrite an... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need some help deleting lines in a file that contain spaces. Im sure awk or sed will work but i dont know much about those commands. Any help is appreciated :D (7 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
>cat data.dat
0001 Robbert
0002 Nick
0003 Mark
.......
1000 Jarek (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
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ALLCOLORS.TXT
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blue red red red
green red red blue
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
A newbie to shell scripting.....
I need some assistance in doing the following:
I have a system generated text file(a makefile basically).
Before I can execute the make command, I need to modify one section of this generated file.
The generated section is as follows:
# INCLUDE macro... (5 Replies)
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