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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Folks -
How would I go about inserting a chunk of lines (3) into a specific portion of a file?
The background is I have a script (non shell) that it executed daily, however on Sundays, I uncomment a section of code so that piece can be run as well.
So I was hoping to write a piece of... (9 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
By using sed command, How to insert a new line before the last four lines of the file.
Old Line
Old Line
NEW LINE!
Old Line
Old Line
Old Line
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have few lines to be inserted in file_lines_to_insert.
In another file final_file, I have to add lines from above file file_lines_to_insert before a particular pattern.
e.g.
$ cat file_lines_to_insert => contents are
abc
def
lkj
In another file final_file, before a... (6 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings all,
I am trying to match a string, and after that insert a few lines above that match.
The string is "Version 1.0.0". I need to insert a few lines ONLY above the first match (there are many Version numbers in the file). The rest of the matches must be ignored. The lines I need to... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a directory with several hundred files.
The file format is a space delimited row with an unknown number of columns:
A B C D E F G ...
I need to turn this format
File1 A
File1 B
File2 A
File3 A
File3 B
File3 C
...
I can use grep to display the filename next to each row of... (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys
I need to have a shell script which reads a log file and insert a part of each line into the database. Some sample lines in the file are as below.
20091112091359 MED_RQACK : user_data=60173054304,100232120,20091112091359,;ask_status=0;ask_reason=OK;msg_id=20091112091319... (5 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I need some inputs on how to open a file (file.txt) and parse the text example aaa of the file and bbb of the file and add the text zzzz once i parse (aaa and bbb) and followed by the remaining of the text as it is in the file using perl programming.
Thanks in advance (3 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I've got some problems with editing a big configuration file .. its about 2k lines long.. anyway what I need is to place certain text to certain line number.. lets say I need to place "Something" on line 980 .. "something" else on line number 1500 and so on without tempering the rest of... (12 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to insert two new lines in a file:
The file:
".....
......
ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="ulimit -S -n `ulimit -H -n`"
....
....
"
I need to add the lines:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH='$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$APACHE_HOME/modules'
DOWNLOADMODULE_CONF_PATHNAME='$APACHE_HOME/conf/DWLModule.cfg'
right... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi There
I have this file that I would like to add entries to, however, there is a "}" as the last line that I need to keep. Basically i would like to know how I can write a script that will add new lines at the second to last line position (ie always add new line above the close bracket)
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