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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Folks,
I am a novice and need to build a script in bash. I have 2 text files data.txt file is big file, column 2 is the we need to search and delete in the output. The filter file contains the rows to be deleted.
Data.txt
state city zone
Alabama Huntsville 4
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys,
I have very large txt files (200GB) and just want to to delete the first two lines (headers). So far I used
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
PATTERN=""
sed "/$PATTERN/d" $file
In the file data is stored as
:::
:::
I need to delete only the line containing the PATTERN
pls help to point out why the above code is not working (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
I currently use the following in shell.
#!/bin/sh
while read LINE
do
perl -i -ne "$/ = ''; print if !m'Using archive: ${LINE}'ms;" "datafile"
done < "listfile"
NOTE the single quote delimiters in the expression. It's highly likely the 'LINE' may very well have characters in it... (3 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
How do I go about deleting a line in a text file. I have used grep to find a particlular word, now how do I delete the line?
so far I got:
grep -i $keyword file.txt (6 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Could someone tell me how to delete a particular text inside an existing file without opening the file?
e.g. I have a text file called mytext.txt which contains three lines of text below and I want to delete “ ;” and delete the second line “b ;” including the carriage return.
a ;
b ;
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
What command I can use to delete first line from any text file ?
Thk (5 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with which i must remove the last line of the file (the footer). I know how to copy and redirect with tail -1 etc, but how do i delete it permanentely (4 Replies)
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