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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
'Hi
I'm using the following code to extract the lines(and redirect them to a txt file) after the pattern match. But the output is inclusive of the line with pattern match.
Which option is to be used to exclude the line containing the pattern?
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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?
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Hi I just wanted to add a new line after every matching pattern:
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1: a
2:
3: b
4: c
5:
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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this is another line,
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l ;
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
got a problem here with sed on the command line.
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online xx:wer:xcv: sdf:/asdf/http:https-asdfd
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
trying to use sed in finding a matching pattern in a file then deleting
the next line only .. pattern --> <ad-content>
I tried this but it results are not what I wish
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<ad-content>
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