Most unix commands and functions relative to files require the input and output files to be different. For safety reasons, but also the issue of how to process a large file at the same time you are doing something to a file.
Typical solution is of the form
But, beware of automatically over-writing your original file. If you start with 1000 records, but some part of your command does not quite work as you thought, then you might end up with zero records.
URGENT HELP IS NEEDED!!
I am looking to move matching lines (01 - 07) from File1 and 77 tab the matching string from File2, to File3.txt. I am almost done but
- Currently, script is not printing lines to File3.txt in order.
- Also the matching lines are not moving out of File1.txt
... (1 Reply)
Hi !
I am trying to remove doubbled entrys in a textfile only between delimiters.
Like that example but i dont know how to do that with sort or similar.
input:
{
aaa
aaa
}
{
aaa
aaa
}
output:
{
aaa
}
{ (8 Replies)
Hello,
I am a java programmer but want to try unix for a purpose where I need to reduce a file using its first field.. Here is the sample data:
admin;2;0;;
admission;8;0;;
aman;1;0;;
caroline;0;4;;
cook;0;4;;
cook;2;0;;
far;0;3;;
far;1;5;;
I am explaining the dataset first. There... (5 Replies)
consider i have two files
cat onlyviews1.sql
CREATE VIEW V11
AS
SELECT id,
name,
FROM
etc etc
WHERE etc etc;
CREATE VIEW V22
AS
SELECT id,
name,
FROM
etc etc
WHERE etc etc;
CREATE VIEW V33
AS (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with the lines as below:
C_10_A05_T7
C_10_A06_SP6
C_10_B05_SP6
C_10_B05_T7
C_10_B01_SP6
C_10_B01_T7
C_12_G07_SP6
C_12_G11_SP6
C_12_G11_T7
C_2_H18_T7
C_2_I02_SP6
C_2_I02_T7
C_2_I13_SP6
C_2_I17_SP6
The four segments of each line are connected by '_' symbols. I... (7 Replies)
Hello! i have a text file.. which contains the data as follows
i want to merge the declarations lines pertaining to one datatype in to a single line as follows
i've searched the forum for help.. but couldn't find much help.. how can i do this?? (1 Reply)
Hello folks
I have a question for you gurus of sed or grep (maybe awk, but I would prefer the first two)
I have a file (f1) that says:
(actually, these are not numbers but md5sum, but for simplicity, let's assume these numbers.)
1
2
3
4
5And I have a file (f2) that says
1|a
1|b
1|c
2|d... (3 Replies)
I have a file which contains data as below:
nbk1j7o pageName=/jsp/RMBS/RMBSHome.jsf
nbk1j7o pageName=/jsp/RMBS/RMBSHome.jsf
nbk1j7o pageName=/jsp/RMBS/RMBSHome.jsf
nbk1j7o pageName=/jsp/RMBS/RMBSHome.jsf
nbk1j7o pageName=/jsp/common/index.jsf
nbk1j7o pageName=/jsp/common/index.jsf
nbk1wqe... (6 Replies)
I have a log file "logreport" that contains several lines as seen below:
04:20:00 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: Agent snmpd appeared dead but responded to ping
06:38:08 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: Agent snmpd appeared dead but responded to ping
07:11:05 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: Agent snmpd appeared dead... (4 Replies)