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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone,
I have a microbial diversity table in the format ;k__kingdom; p__phylum, etc, somer rows have descriptions before the :k__ (like the af028349.1 below) is there a way I can get rid of this text (which is different every time) and keep all the other columns?
Thanks a bunch!
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Discussion started by: Juan Gonzalez
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have a fat file which contains something like this:
************************************************
blahblahblah
blahblahblah
Myobject1 HOME (
homecontents01 (
some junk;
)
home contents02(
some junk;
)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I am looking for the way to delete the block of data for example
original file
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
input file
line2
line3
original file should contain
line1
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a text file that looks like this:
I want to delete the last character of first column in all rows so that my output looks like this:
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi There!
I've got a tab delimited text file (output from a software) to which I would like to delete specific strings from one of the columns. I have tried several sed codes, but they do not seem to work for me. I can manage to delete a specific word, but this is of no use, as I what I want to... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI All, I need to search for a particular pattern input by the user in order to delete the line. My username.txt has
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username1@email.edu:Nemo:149.0.3.4:1
The program i written
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
example.txt
----------
this is a line i want to keep
this is another line I wish to keep
I wish to delete from here ON until I see
four new lines from here and then
I wish to keep the rest.
These are some special charcters {)#@ which
have to be deleted too
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Hi everyone,
I have text files that I want to delete lines from. I have searched through this forum for quite some time and found examples of both awk and sed. Unfortunately, I was not able to successfully do what I want. Well to some extent. I did manage to delete the first 15 lines from each... (5 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need to delete a text block inside a file, that is marked with a start and an end pattern. Eg
do not delete
not delete
<tag1>
delete everything here
here
and here
and here...
<tag2>
do not delete
do not delete....
Believe sed is able to do this job but don't get it working.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In my korn shell script, I want to delete some particular text from a certain file...How can this be done? Is the below right?
ed $NAMES << EOF
echo "" > /dev/null
echo "${x} = " > /dev/null
echo "name = " > /dev/null
echo "adress = " > /dev/null
w
q
EOF (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: n8575
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11-27-2008
from the ; to the : (but not the 
needs to be removed.