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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I'm looking for a way (sed or awk) to delete multiple lines between blank lines containing two patterns ex:
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 15
parameter_2 = 1
parameter_3 = 0
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 15
parameter_2 = 1
parameter_3 = 0
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 16... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ce9888
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi Gurus,
Somebody can say me how to delete blank spaces and blank lines in a file unix, please.
Thank you for advanced. (10 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Consider a file named "testfile"
The contents of file are as below
first line added for test
second line added for test
third line added for test
fourth line added for test
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to use diff to compare two files in a Perl file. But one of the files has some blank lines at the end. So I want to delete the blank lines from the file firstly and then use diff to compare them. But I dont know how to delete the blank lines from the files. Meanwhile, the system is... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a sed pipeline:
myVar=$(cat $FILE | sed -n '/regex/,/regex/{/regex/d;p}' | sed -n '/regex/!p' | sed -e s/*:// | sed /regex/,+8d \
)
sed '/^$/d'
sed '/./!d'
And i've tried to add that in a different order rather then just on the end..Why isnt it deleting all the blank... (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have blank line in the file, I just want to remove trailing blank lines.
There are some blank lines between the lines, i don't want remove those.
Just want to delete blank lines at the end.
I used this command sed '/^$/d' infile > outfile, but it is not removing anything.
I think... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: visu
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Hello Firends,
I have file like below. I want to remove selected blocks say abc,pqr,lst. how can i remove those blocks from file.
zone abc {
blah
blah
blah }
zone xyz {
blah
blah
blah }
zone pqr {
blah
blah
blah } (4 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can anyone show me how to delete blank lines from a file.
thanks in advance (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a text file with blank lines fullfilled with spaces and others only containing the "Enter" caracter, the \012.
I would like to eliminate all them with the sed command.
Is it possible?
making: sed '/^$/d' <file should delete the blank lines but doesn't work for the lines that only... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tmxps
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi there
i'm trying to delete blank lines and or lines with spaces only from a series of files in an directory.
to do so, i'm using this:
for files in `ls /users/myname/pesop* 2>/dev/null`
do
grep -v ^$ $files > newfile
mv newfile $files
done
now, this works great for blank lines but... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vascobrito
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