General :: Loop Append Text To Text Files?
Jan 15, 2010
may be an advanced question but I need to know how to do this. Here at work I am in charge of recruiting and we have about 1,000 resumes in already. All of the resumes are in a .pdf format. I need to rename every .pdf in the following format:{firstnameLastname}.pdfThe only way I know how to do this is to convert all the .pdf files to text, extract the name out of the first few lines of text, import into excel, and then use VBA to rename the files in mass:Here is my logic so far:~Deskop/a = houses all the .pdfresumesOpen terminal: Code: cd ~/Desktop/afor f in *.pdf; do pdftotext -raw $f; done That will convert all of the preceding resumes into text filesNow I would like to append the name of the text file into the last line of the text file. So, for example, for Resume1.txt, I want to append "Resume1.txt" to the last line within Resume1.txt. So after I run the command I open Resume1.txt and on the last line within I want to see "Resume1.txt" on the last line, at the end of the resume.How can I do this? I would like to use a loop and have the terminal append the filename to the body of the text file until all of the have been appended.
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Mar 19, 2010
I'm doing an assignment for school, and while we have not yet learned regular expressions, my teacher would like us to use AWK to append text to certain lines in a file. What we've had to do is creating a listing of all links and directories in the /etc folder and place them in a text file. From this, we were to cut the first field (Permissions) and the ninth field (filename) and create another text file. Now the part that I'm struggling with is this and I'm not sure if I should be using sed or awk. We're supposed to ADD the text "DIR" to the beginning of any line that is a directory, and "LNK" to any that is a link, like so:
DIRdrwxr-xr-x redhat-lsb
DIRdrwxr-xr-x rhgb
LNKlrwxrwxrwx rnDIRc.key
DIRdrwxr-xr-x rpm
Obviously, I realize that the first character in the permissions denotes what sort of file it is, hence when I created my text file I used
ls -l | grep "^d" > file.txt
and
ls -l | grep "^l" >> file.txt
I'd like to learn how to properly do this, but struggling through pages on the internet hasn't been helping, nor has the --help command. Therefore, while I would like the answer, I'd also like to know what the heck I'm doing For example, I know I could delete lines with regex using d/[STUFF I WANT TO DELETE]/g (To get rid of all occurences) and I can substitute using s/foo/bar But I'm unaware of anyway to ADD text upon certain occurences, let alone two different circumstances.
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Apr 21, 2010
Currently, when I'm searching text in files of my PHP project, I use this line :
Code:
grep -r 'myTextToFind' *
But now, I would like to search only in ".lang" files. How can I do that ?
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Nov 5, 2010
Using sed, I am trying to append four commas ',,,,' at the end of lines containing the pattern 'Response' in a text file with lines such as these:
6,Pulse,50,254968,14886,NA,,,,
7,Picture,8,265157,0,1,15045,2,0,15000
7,Response,1,271553,6396,1
7,Pulse,50,274969,9812,NA,,,,
8,Picture,1,290232,0,1,15045,2,0,15000
8,Pulse,50,294969,4737,NA,,,,
[Code].....
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Jan 22, 2010
I have 2 text files : file1.txt and file2.txt
cat file1.txt
15 this is a sentence containing various words and spaces
34 this is a another sentence containing various words and spaces
cat file2.txt
2 this is sentence1file2
6 this is sentence2file2
54 this is sentence3file2
I would like to join these 2 files. The result should look as follows :
cat joinedfile.txt
2 this is sentence1file2
6 this is sentence2file2
15 this is a sentence containing various words and spaces
34 this is a another sentence containing various words and spaces
54 this is sentence3file2
==> so the joined file must be sorted on the first number. Any ideas how this can be achieved ?
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Dec 2, 2009
I want to append some text to the file, files are mostly big, more then 100 mb. I found the cat command, so I can create a new txt file and then append it to the original file with it. Two questions:
1. Can I append text to the file instead of creating the new file and then appending it to the original file? eg:
Code:
cat file.avi "some text" > newfile.avi
2. cat takes several seconds to execute the merging files together, it seems that it is reading the original file first, is there a way skip the reading and just append the file?
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Aug 14, 2010
I need to run ./pythonScript keyword one time for each keyword in a text file, how can I do this from a gnome terminal? (without having to modify the pythonScript)
pseudo code:
for each keyword in file:
./pythonScript keyword
waitfor(pythonScript to finish)
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Jun 1, 2010
Can I use sed to include a text file in the beginning of other text files inside a folder and its subfolders? So it should be recursive.
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Nov 6, 2010
Say I have a text file like:
Code:
1
3
4
How would I use ksh to put the number '2' into the second line of that file?Okay it's not bash, it's ksh because this computer is OpenBSD
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Jan 14, 2010
I am trying to append text to the beginning of a file. This is what I have so far.
Code:
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$date=date("m-d-Y g:i:s a");
[code]....
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Nov 5, 2009
I would like to write a text user interface (TUI) to adjust some text config files etc. Is there a tool or application for creating TUIs like this. I�m talking about those types of config tools which you see executed at first boot.
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Aug 30, 2010
How do you append text to an entry in an existing file? For example, lets say I have a file called "env.logon" in /home/myself/bin that contains the following text:
PATH=/bin:/sbin If I wanted to add, via command line, ":/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" to the PATH= and I
used the "echo" command (echo "PATH=:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin) it would create a second entry and my file would look like:
PATH=/bin:/sbin
PATH=:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
What I want is for it to look like:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Is there a way to get this result via command line?
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Apr 15, 2009
I am thinking of appending something to each line in a text file with Java. I prefer not write a new file with content appended from the old one.That 'something' would probably be Time Stamp when the file is created (which is same for each line).I am not sure Java provide some easy way for it or not
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Mar 16, 2010
So I have file which looks something like this:
cat .opera/operaprefs.ini
Code:
[User Prefs]
Language Files Directory=
[code]...
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Mar 11, 2010
if you execute :
#!/bin/bash
echo "some textstring" >> logfile.txt
then the string "some textstring " will be APPENDED to logfile.txt Is there a redirect way that in stead of appended, the string will be INSERTED at the top of the logfile.txt file ? If this cannot be done by redirecting, what would be the best way to insert the test-string at the top of the logfile ?
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Jul 17, 2009
I was trying to install GTK+-2.8.20, so I installed it's necessary dependencies in this order:
pkg-config-0.23
glib-2.20.4
pango-1.24.4
jpeg library
tiff library
cairo
And I was about to install the last dependency: ATK (Accessability Toolkit).I opened the Archive Manager to extract the "atk-1.26.0.tar.gz" file (yes, I'm still switching from Windows so I'm fond of GUI), but I noticed all the text in that window was boxes, like the □ type box for every letter of text.So instead I thought it wouldn't be a big deal, because the terminal and regular windows weren't screwed up.I opened a text file in gedit (reference to commands in terminal, such as how to extract files via terminal), but yet again all of the text was □-like boxes.
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Oct 28, 2010
EDIT1: I should note that I was trying to do this in PERL, not sure if other alternatives are more simple?EDIT2: I should note that for text file 3 (reference), it's a long list of MANY cnp_id values and their corresponoding chr, start, and end values. So, the code will have to take the cnp_id from text file 1 and/or 2 and search through textfile 3 (reference) to match on the cnp_id and then take the corresponding chr, start, and end values and add to the relevant line in the output.EDIT3: Sorry, I should mention that the text file entries are all tab-delimited.I have 3 text files:File 1:Columns represent sample IDs (sample_id) and rows represent CNP IDs (cnp_id). Cells represents the confidence level (confidence) for each sample and CNP.Quote:
cnp_idP5E6_SNP6.0_JHP5_010408.CELP5E11reh_SNP6.0_JHP5_011808.CELP7C7_SNP6.0_JHP7_021208.CEL ... etc.
CNP100.0044798340.0027929510.00305613
[code]...
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Nov 2, 2010
I am trying to store the results of my code to a separate text file.But the problem is, as my results comes from a loop, my text file shows only the last result, not all of them.Like if the loop runs 5 time the text file shows the result for the 5th step.But i need to store all of them (1 to 5).Can I use awk to print the output field and store to another file and creat a new line so that the next output field goes to a new line?(just an idea, dont know).
#!/bin/basth
for (( i=1; i<=5; i++))
do
./file.exe > output.txt
done
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May 25, 2011
How do you convert Open Office (ODT) documents to Text files?
I have made a report using libre office. Now I wish to continue editing the document using lyx (latex front end). So the ODT file needs to be saved as some .tex file.
I don't see an option to do this in File menu (export/save as). So is there any other plugin to do this?
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May 18, 2011
Can anyone point me to a well working peace of software (free will be preferred) that can convert text-files into pdf.
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Jul 14, 2010
I want the difference of two text files(a.txt & b.txt) into a third text file(c.txt). i.e. New or Differert rows of a.txt compared to b.txt
a.txt>
10128|10153|999999
10343|10153|000
10345|10153|3846
10351|10153|3846
b.txt>
10128|10153|999999
10343|10153|3853
10345|10153|3853
10349|10153|3853
c.txt should be like>
10343|10153|000
10351|10153|3846
I tried comm,but man says that the files have to be sorted in order to use comm. I dont want to sort the files.
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Nov 23, 2010
find text within files? detailed at Code: man grep
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Aug 9, 2010
Some pdf readers for windows allow you to highlight and type notes into PDF files. The pdf readers that I've seen for Linux only allow you to read pdfs. Are there any that allow you to highlight text and add notes?
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Jan 24, 2010
I'm needing to read the Adam's Assembly Tutorials, that are old EDIT *.txt files, I'm on Linux and I need to read this files.What can I do?Is there any GUI editor that can read the files?There is any way to convert them into another file that is more modern1?
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Nov 5, 2010
Is there a way, besides writing a PERL program, to read each line one by one in file A and tell if this line also exists in file B? Can this be done via a shell script?
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Nov 10, 2010
i am working in gcc compiler i am opening a file using file pointer writing in the file ,entering the text from keyboard tell me the end of file indicator after entering the text
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Mar 22, 2011
Combine multiple text files into one text file?
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Sep 17, 2009
Is there anyway to delete certain paragraphs within a text file and then insert the paragraph into another text file.I just cannot figure out how to remove the specific lines from the file and then insert them into another file at a certain line within that new file. Thanks again
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Jul 8, 2010
I have a many directories each with about 20 html files inside. All the files have .html ext. What I'm hoping is possible is from command line to find some text in each one and replace it with some other text.
Basically what I want to replace is;
/awstats/
with
awstats/
I can do this easily with dreamweaver or some other application but because I have 960 pages total to do I'm hoping to do it this way.
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Jan 24, 2010
What is a good way to do it? I have been trying to do it using sed.
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