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
[code]...
I 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
[code]...
As 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 $found1fullmac with two variables representing line numbers to exclude from the replacement.
I have a few rather large text files, and I need a way to look at the first three lines of each. Is there a way to do this using awk?
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abc(parameter1,
parameter2,
parameter3);
So I want to copy all the three lines (till semicolon) to the output file.The problem is because there are more than 200 calls for the same function and I cannot do it manually
I have a text file called file1.txt containing many lines eg.
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6
Then i have another text file called file2.txt contains
3
5
6
Is there a command to remove the lines in file1.txt based on the keywords in file2.txt? note: It should remove line3,line5,line6 based on 3,5,6
I have a list of words that I want to grep in many files to see which ones have it and which ones dont. in the text file I have all the words listed line by line, ex: list.txt:
check
try this
word1
word2
open space
list ..
I want to grep each line one by one. like I want it to
grep "check" *.log
grep "try this" *.log
grep "word1" *.log .. etc how can I do this?
and maybe write the output to a file.
anyone has ideas how to remove lone lines from a text file?
If I have a file that is like this:
-----------------------------------
line 1
[code]...
I need to insert 3-4 lines of text to the beginning of a text file. The file is a largish MYSQL dump, the result of a backup shell script. This shell script should insert the required text.I've wrestled with sed, but lost.
View 2 Replies View RelatedTrying to remove lines from a syslog text file that have duplicate strings
Mar 10 06:51:11[http-8080-1] INFO com.MYCOMPANY.webservices.userservice.web.UserServiceController [u:2533274802474744|360] Authorize [platformI$tformIdAndOs=2533274802474744|360, userRegion=America|360]
then a few lines down
Mar 10 06:52:03 [http-8080-1] INFO com.MYCOMPANY.webservices.userservice.web.UserServiceController [u:2533274802474744|360] Authorize [platformI$tformIdAndOs=2533274802474744|360, userRegion=America|360
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.
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].....
To save on the writing of WAY to many files with very little in them, I want to put it all in one file and read a specific few lines. There will be six variables to be read at a time. Format is as such:
//Set 1
string name
5
12
[code]....
From name to 5th number is a set. The name will be of different lengths for each set. This will be a big file of probably 40+ sets. My problem lies in reading one and only one set be it set 5 or set 34. It needs to be done in C++.
I'm trying to come up with ideas for a simple way to strip a specific "entry" from a text file.I know tools like sed and perl can remove specific lines from a file but I haven't been able to come up with an elegant way to do my group of lines.In my file, the first "Location" line and the "SVNPath" line should be unique every time... but are they enough to strip out the whole set of the group plus the trailing one line of white space separating each group? Add to this, my file will grow as new entries are added (always appended to the end) but new entries will have the same formatting.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to extract specific lines from a flat file. I need lines that fall within a range of coordinates. The -F can be either ! or = If the line is in this set range I need all of the data on that line. ranges lat 36 to 39 and longitude -74 to -84
awk -F '=' '{lat=substr($2,1,2); lon=substr($2,10,3); (lat >36 && lat <39) && (lon >-74 && lon <-84); print lat"--"lon}' < net.log
example line from the flat file
K4MQF-3>APN383,VA2-2,qAR,N3HF-5:!3818.65NS07800.17W#PHG77306/W3,VA3/Clarke Mnt
I have text file with say 1000 lines.And I want to display lines numbered 100, 203 and 297 using a script/ command.How can I do this ?I can print a particular line using:sed -n '100p' file1 (where file1 is input file).
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a file which contains milion of records. It contains 12 columns seperated by "||" (delimeter).
First two fields contain first name and last name of a person. Now my requirement is to delete all those records from this file for which:
First two fields does not contain any alphabet.
For e.g i have below mentioned records in file:
gaurav||gandhi||123||456||789
#a%bcd||123abc||89|90||91
12345||@@@||89||123||234
***||!!!!||98||76||90
Now, last two lines should be removed from this file since first two fields does not contain any alphabet for these two records.
for example
else {
for fileDOC in $location/*.doc
do
[code]...
I 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.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to be able to check the contents of a text file for a specific string and remove it from the file from the command prompt. I would basically be searching through a number of files and if a specific string is found I would like it removed automatically. pretty much a find and replace, were the replace is nothing. any one got any ideas on how you would do this. I already have the search part sorted just need to be able to remove the string I don't want from the multiple files.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI 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: ')
[code]...
Contained 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?
View 7 Replies View Relatedhow 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?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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
View 3 Replies View RelatedFor example, I have a text file with data which lists numerical values from two separate individuals
Code:
Person A
100
[code]...
i 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)
For 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)?
I 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 ".
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a text file (actually a log file from a sensor) that looks like this:
Date/Time: 10.07.01 11:03:59
00 Battery Voltage 13.5 Volt
01 Reference 71
02 Wind speed 6.68 m/s
03 Wind gust 9.3 m/s
[Code]....
I want to delete every block that is not complete. If any of the above lines (Date line or lines 00 to 08)is missing I want to completely remove the block.
I have a text file which stores the list of files & dir, I want to get only file's extensions from this file & want to store it in another file.eg, below is the file's contents & from it I want to get the extensions sh, pl & h & want to store it in another file. Also I don't want directory list.
A scripts/services_restarter.sh
A scripts/svn post_commit scripts
A scripts/tmp/
[code]...
This 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.
Consider a situation in which you want to display only specific lines of contents from a file or of a command's output. Yes, we have head and tail commands. But, how to view all the lines of a file except the last one or vise versa when we don't know the count of lines in advance?
Consider this output:
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# ps au | grep bash
root 6316 0.0 0.0 4672 1440 tty1 Ss+ Apr22 0:02 -bash
root 20847 0.2 0.0 4672 1432 pts/0 Ss Apr23 0:12 -bash
root 21167 0.0 0.0 3920 660 pts/0 S+ 01:00 0:00 grep bash
Here, I don't want the last line (in italic) to be included in the result since the last line is due to "grep bash" in the devised command "ps au | grep bash". Well, we can rewrite the devised command:
Quote:
"ps au | grep bash | head -n 2"
But, again, here we are specifying the count of lines to be included. But, in the presented problem we don't know any count in advance!