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Old 07-09-2005
To manipulate a specific line
Hi,
I would like to cut a specific line from a text file and then manipulate the text in that line.
For eg. below is "tmp" file.
-----------------
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 4 events were processed for customer 315 and will be correctly resolved when 315MERGE is run:
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 ISA ContainerID Event
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU178050 VD
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU178050 AE
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU738873 VD
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU738873 AE
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In the above file, I am able to get the line no (line no: 2) of the searching string "events were processed for customer", then I would like to cut the lines in the file starting from 3rd line.

Below is my script:
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#!/bin/ksh
nm=`grep -n "events were processed for customer" tmp |cut -c1-2`
echo $nm

Can anybody help me in this.


cheers,
dhiman.

Edit - ZB - Font still to large.... removed superflous SIZE tags...
Last edited by zazzybob; 07-09-2005 at 08:06 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-09-2005
Hmm... so you want to find the line that includes the text "events were processed" and then display all lines that appear below that matched line?
Code:
$ nm=`grep -n "events were processed" tmpfile`
$ echo $nm
2:Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 4 events were processed for customer 315 and will be correctly resolved when 315MERGE is run:
$ sed -n "$(( `echo $nm | cut -d: -f1` + 1 )),$ p" tmpfile
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 ISA ContainerID Event
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU178050 VD
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU178050 AE
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU738873 VD
Tue 07/05/05 00:27:34.333 000005225 PONU738873 AE
$

Cheers
ZB
# 3  
Old 07-10-2005
for gun sed
Code:
sed '0,/events were processed/d' tmpfile

 
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