General :: Use AWK To Print Out First Few Lines Of A Text File?
Jul 27, 2011I have a few rather large text files, and I need a way to look at the first three lines of each. Is there a way to do this using awk?
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Programming :: Remove Lines In A Text File Based On Another Text File?
Jan 28, 2009I have a text file called file1.txt containing many lines eg.
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6
Then i have another text file called file2.txt contains
3
5
6
Is there a command to remove the lines in file1.txt based on the keywords in file2.txt? note: It should remove line3,line5,line6 based on 3,5,6
General :: Grep Multiple Lines From A Text File
Jun 17, 2009I have a list of words that I want to grep in many files to see which ones have it and which ones dont. in the text file I have all the words listed line by line, ex: list.txt:
check
try this
word1
word2
open space
list ..
I want to grep each line one by one. like I want it to
grep "check" *.log
grep "try this" *.log
grep "word1" *.log .. etc how can I do this?
and maybe write the output to a file.
General :: Show Specific Lines In A Text File?
Feb 3, 2011I have created a text file in Linux, and I only want to show certain users. Here is my text file:
usr user tty Limbo?
11 12:06:13 APW no
12 12:06:13 APW no
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General :: Remove Lone Lines From A Text File?
Jul 6, 2011anyone has ideas how to remove lone lines from a text file?
If I have a file that is like this:
-----------------------------------
line 1
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Programming :: Adding Lines Of Text To Beginning Of Text File
Jan 19, 2009I need to insert 3-4 lines of text to the beginning of a text file. The file is a largish MYSQL dump, the result of a backup shell script. This shell script should insert the required text.I've wrestled with sed, but lost.
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Mar 17, 2011Trying to remove lines from a syslog text file that have duplicate strings
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then a few lines down
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got the same thing in terms of a u: number but the issue is I need to remove duplicates and just leave one and the file has multiple duplicates of different u: numbers and it's 14,000 lines long. can anyone tell me if I can use awk? sed? or sort for something like this to? removing lines that have a certain string in there that's a duplicate.
General :: Sed - Append Four Commas ',,,,' At The End Of Lines Containing The Pattern 'Response' In A Text File
Nov 5, 2010Using 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,,,,
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General :: Print Some Results In Text File Using Script
Feb 27, 2011I am writing a script which would just print following kind of result into a text file (result.txt)
Code:
XYZ test Results
ID: <unique-id> Date: <date>
-------------------------------------------------
| Task | Result | Time |
-------------------------------------------------
| <task1> | <Result1> | <time1> |
| | | |
-------------------------------------------------
AD No: <adn> Generated Date: <tdate>
Above all the values of <something> are dynamic or predefined.
General :: How To Print Part Of Text File In Bold And Color
Jul 6, 2011I have a procedure say X
output of X is :
Fund name: Mutual
NAV is: 1234
So I appended this output into a file using shellscript. But now my requirement is changed. The part of output like Fund name and 1234 should be in bold. How can I do this using shell script.
Programming :: Add Comma To End Of Lines In Text File?
Aug 21, 2010I have a plain text file with 360 lines of varying length text. How do I add a comma or other symbol to the end of each line so that I can convert the file to csv format that I can open in a spreadsheet (45 rows, 8 columns). That means each 8 lines of text forms 8 columns, with 45 rows.
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Sep 6, 2010I am creating my own address book Python program and I want to create a nction that removes some specified entries. The code looks like this now.
Code:
def remove():
delentry= raw_input('Enter the entry name to delete: ')
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Ubuntu :: Remove Duplicate Lines From A Text File?
Dec 16, 2010Contained within each of these 67 text files is about 1 million urls. Yes. I have 67 text files that contain 1 million lines of urls each. I am sure I am swimming in duplicates. I tried opening one text file and clicking sort ----->remove duplicates. Now Gedit is not responding my processor is maxed out to 100% and I think I am finally ready to delve into some command line code. Can anyone give me idiot proof instructions on how to sort the duplicates out of each one of these 67 text files? How about no duplicates across all 67?
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Feb 17, 2011how can I set the cat command to read specified lines of a text file,like if I have a text file with 100 lines, who can I say cat only line 23 to 42?
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Jul 7, 2011I need to chop of the top 30ish lines of several log files until a line starting with "Initialization completed."The trouble is that it's not always the same amount of lines that need to be deleted, and they don't always contain the same information, which is why I would need to delete everything priorhe line starting with "Initialization completed."Right now I have a little script I wrote based on looping each file through several "grep -v" commands with each known pattern of lines I want to ignore, but it is tedious and I have to inspect each file afterwards to make sure nothing is left from above "Initialization completed
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Mar 11, 2011For example, I have a text file with data which lists numerical values from two separate individuals
Code:
Person A
100
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Ubuntu :: Remove Duplicate Lines In Plain Text File?
Apr 14, 2010i have a big file of random numbers i generated at some point in time, after working with it with different things(how fun that was)... i want to remove duplicate lines and i'm not sure i'm doing this right
heres the command
Code:
sort random.txt | uniq -u > rand-shorter.txt
the file is pretty big, everything on a new line. i found the command on a web site so i'm sure its correct(bit of a command line in linux newbie)
can anyone confirm if this will remove lines duplicate lines (keeping one copy) and dump what is left in a file named rand-shorter.txt?
EDIT: i think its actually working, just taking a reallllly long time (on an old pen 4 from 2000)
Programming :: (BASH) How To Read Multiple Lines From Text File
Mar 11, 2011For example, I have a text file with data which lists numerical values from two separate individuals
Code:
Person A
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
1100
1200
Person B
1200
1100
1000
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
How would I go about reading the values for each Person, then being able to perform mathematical equations for each Person (finding the sum for example)?
Ubuntu :: Create A Script To Count The Number Of Lines From A Text File?
Dec 17, 2010I need to create a script to count the number of lines from a text file . The output must be put on another text file (no_lines.txt) and in this file i need to generate from the script this output :"File $FILE has $NO_LINES lines ".
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Feb 23, 2010This should be simple but I can't seem to find what I am looking for.I want to search a text file for the existence of certain strings and execute a command if they exist, something along the lines of:
if <string> exists
command
or
if <any member of this list exists>
command
I know how to manually search a file with grep, cat, etc., but the "if this exists" part eludes me.
General :: Replace Several Lines In A File With Other Lines In Another File?
Oct 26, 2009I have this massive table file with some data in it and I want to replace some lines that are wrong with the correct ones that are in another table file of the same format. The wrong lines are not all together in a block but randomly distributed so I need to make a loop checking if the line is in the other file and if it is, replace it. I want to try and do it with sed or awk but I don't really know how to....
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Sep 17, 2009Is there anyway to delete certain paragraphs within a text file and then insert the paragraph into another text file.I just cannot figure out how to remove the specific lines from the file and then insert them into another file at a certain line within that new file. Thanks again
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May 2, 2010i am on processing text tasks And i found that if you assign a text to a variable is chomp'ed automatically the newline
Code:
variable=$(cat file.txt)
The problem is i can only access the items/lines using:
Code:
for line in $variable
do
echo $line
# Other commands
done
how do i convert this to an indexed array. More importantly, how do i get access to individual $line[0], ..., $line[n] Another thing, if the file.txt, has lines with spaces it is a mess using the for...in..., but echoing prints line by line...o_0
General :: Set More Lines To Scroll Backwards, In Text Mode?
Dec 27, 2010I want to scroll back 10000+ lines in text mode linux terminal. As there is an unlimit option in gnome-terminal, so I guess if this is also possible in text mode?
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Jul 21, 2011in the shell. how do i compare 2 text files and change matching lines in one of the files ?
example:
cat file_1.txt
line_1
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General :: Sed - Replacing Only Text With Several Specific Lines Excluded
Jun 17, 2010As much as I didn't want to ask a sed question, especially considering there's already one on this page I've looked as best I could and cant find the solution. Id like to use sed to replace occurrences of a pattern but exclude two or 3 specific lines that are not consecutive. For example I know with 1,10 i could exclude the first 10 lines, what is the syntax if I just wanted to exclude line 3 and 7. The sed command I'm working with right now is for rearranging Ethernets.
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules | sed -e '/'"$found1fullmac"'/!s/eth1/'"found1eth"'/' > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
I would like to replace $found1fullmac with two variables representing line numbers to exclude from the replacement.
General :: Splitting Text Files Into Parts With 2000 Lines
Sep 7, 2010I am facing a problem while splitting a text file, I need to split a file into some parts and each split file should have 2000 lines, when I do it through "split" command the mother file is kept intact but as per my requirement I need to cut mother file into some parts thus it should not be kept intact.
Example:
file size
motherfile.txt 5000 lines.
after split
motherfile.txt 2000 lines.
childfile1.txt 2000 lines.
childfile2.txt 1000 lines.
General :: Cups Generic Text Only Doesn't Print 255 Characters?
Dec 26, 2010I configured cups and I managed to print successfully with generic text only but my problem is that the printout always comes out as 80 columns. anything more than 80 colums wraps on the next page. I tried changing the pagesize at the textonly.ppd but it didn't work.my textonly.ppd is
*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%
*% Text-only printer definition
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General :: Command Line - Print A Group Of Text Matching A Regex?
Sep 22, 2011I'd like to print only few groups from text matching a regex. How can I do that in the Linux command line?
What other tools for text processing are there in Linux?