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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello experts,
I have a text file with lot of curly brackets (both opening { & closing } ). I need to delete them alongwith the text between opening & closing brackets' pair.
For ex: Input:-
59. Rh1 Qe4 {(Qf5-e4 Qd8-g8+ Kg6-f5
Qg8-h7+ Kf5-e5 Qh7-e7+ Ke5-f5 Qe7-d7+ Qe4-e6 Qd7-h7+ Qe6-g6... (6 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Trying to use sed to, in-place, remove specific text from a file. Since there are / in the text I use | to escape that character. Thank you :).
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sed: -e expression #1, char 51: unterminated `s' command (4 Replies)
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3. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions
so...
Lets assume I have a text file.
The text file contains multiple "#" symbols.
I want to replace all thos "#"s with a STRING using DOS/Batch
I want to add a certain TEXT to the end of each line.
How can I do this WITHOUT aid of sed, grep or anything linux related ? (1 Reply)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, i need to read a line from a file and count the number of times it appear in, then continuous to the second line with the same. So when i count a line i have to remove all duplicates in the file to not count it another time.
while read line
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n=$(grep -c $line File)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Consider that i have many files that have the below format:
file1
900 7777
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1100 kkkkkkk
file2
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What i would like to do is on every file to search the line that starts with... (4 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I'm trying to locate a block of text in a file, remove it and then replace with a new block.
I can find the first line number that the text starts on using grep -n. I then need to locate the ending line by searching for the string "}" that follows the line I found. Here's the steps I need to... (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all...
I want to delete the entire text of the file and want to make it zero byte..
would you please tell me the command for it.
Thanks and regards
Vijay sahu (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a shell script that will allow the typing of a value, then using that value to replace data in a text file.
I suspect I need sed.
The format of the file is:
Variable1:Value1
Variable2:Value2
The interaction would be something like:
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a text file with following content (3 lines)
filename : output.txt
first line:12/12/2008
second line:12/12/2008
third line:Y
I would like to know how we can replace 'Y' with 'N' in the 3rd line keeping 1st and 2nd lines same as what it was before.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a script that kills old sessions, I've posted here over the past few days and the script is just about perfect except I want to be given the option to exclude specified PIDs from being killed. this is the entire script:
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