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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to remove columns 81-97 from a line that can be as long as 114 characters. Because a number of lines might not have under 80 characters, using the cut command following by paste could be a problem. While sed might work, is there some other utility that could do this more easily?
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have some sample names. The regions in red are what I want to extract.
AIB13-positive
AIB13-blank
AIB13-1116-0022999
GNX13-1521-0003532
Each of the sample names are represented as variable ${SAMPLE} within a loop. I've tried extracting the middle region with the following code... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi.
I am not sure how to solve this problem and if it is possible to do so with scripting. :wall:
Let's say I have this data:
A 12345 12360
A 12359 12380
A 12381 12390
A 12400 12450
A 12451 12460
B 23456 23460
B 23470 23480
B 23477 23505
I wan't each line to be compared in this... (5 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Please see the following code, between "status" and "OK" exists many spaces, I want to get status OK . how to ignore multi spaces? If tab exists in the spaces, how to ignore it ?
Is there other commands can replace cut?
$ echo 'drv status OK'| cut... (3 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear All,
Is there a way to cut the lines that have been "head"
Here is what i m trying to do Please advice
there is file name dummy.txt
now i am trying to head this file 4 time by using a loop and every time this file is head with different values
e.g in first instance it will... (7 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file named Mani.txt. The contents are like this
cat Mani.txt
--------------------------------------------------------
Hi there how r u
My Name is Mani
Bye
------------------------------------------------------------
I want to cut the first and last lines from the file... (15 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI All,
I want to cut 5 lines after a pattern using sed or awk. can any one tell me how to do it ? (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.
I've posted a couple of questions on my little project before, and it's been helpful, but things just keep changing on my end.
Allow me to explain.
I'm getting hundreds of .txt files, each containing the results of a database search from a newspaper. EAch file contains the news stories... (10 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey all. I have a file that I am trying to cut information out of. We have a script that shows us all of our Radio Scanners that are being used and I'm writing a script that clears all of the context off of the scanners. The script that runs shows us this information below...
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have this problem of separating 10 consecutive lines from a file, say starting from 21 to 30... I have used a filter like this..
head -n 30 myfile | tail -n 10
Is there a simpler way than this? (2 Replies)
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