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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
OSX
I have been grinding my teeth on a portion of code. I am building a bash script that edits a html email template. In the template, I have place holders for SED (or whatever program is appropriate) to use as anchors for find and replace, with user defined corresponding html code. The HTML code... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sudo
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Unix Forums,
I am hoping you can help me with a pattern matching problem.
What am I trying to do?
I want to replace multiple lines of a text file (that match a multi-line pattern) with a single line of text. These patterns can span several lines and do not always have the same number of... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: thefang
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings All,
I would like to find all occurences of a pattern and delete a substring from the all matching lines EXCEPT the first. For example:
1234::group:user1,user2,user3,blah1,blah2,blah3
2222::othergroup:user9,user8
4444::othergroup2:user3,blah,blah,user1
1234::group3:user5,user1
... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: jacksolm
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I know sed and awk has options to give range of line numbers, but
I need to replace pattern in specific lines
Something like
sed -e '1s,14s,26s/pattern/new pattern/' file name
Can somebody help me in this....
I am fine with see/awk/perl
Thank you in advance (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: dani777
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5. Programming
Hi,
I need to join every alternate line in a file
for eg:input file
$ cat abc
abc
def
ghi
jkloutput
abc def
ghi jklcode i wrote for this
$ cat add_line.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $count=1;
#my $line=undef;
my @mem_line;
my $i=0;
my $x=0; (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sam05121988
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi friends,
This is sed & awk type question.
I have a text file which has numbers spread all over the file. I want to sum the series of numbers whenever i find it and produce an output file with the sum. For example
###start of input text file ####
abc
def
ghi
1
2
3
4
kjld
random... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaaliakahn
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I need to delete lines from a file which are after pattern1 and between pattern 2 and patter3, as below:
aaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbb
pattern1
cdededed
ddededed
pattern2
fefefefe <-----Delete this line
efefefef <-----Delete this line
pattern3
adsffdsd
huaserew
Please can you suggest... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: vk2012
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to use sed or awk to delete single lines in a file. By single, I mean lines that are not touching any other lines (just one line with white space above and below).
Example:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
I want it to look like: (6 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Input:
hello hello
hello hello
monkey
donkey
hello hello
drink
dance
drink
Output should be:
hello hello
monkey
donkey
drink
dance (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: cola
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm new to Unix. I want to read the all the lines from a text file and write the alternate lines into another file. Please give me a shell script solution.
file1
-----
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
newfile(it should contain the alternate lines from the file1)
-------
one... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: pstanand
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