Is there a convenient method to find a text pattern that extends over several lines? In this case:
Empty line
LineConsistingOfSingleWord
Preferably to return the line number where the pattern occurs to determine the first such after a known line number. In other words, in order to extract a block of text from within a file.
I am trying to edit a print file.
For every occurence of the ^L form feed character I need to remove 5 blank lines after it but still keep the ^L.
I am a rare user of sed and am ok with the basics but am struggling with this.
How do yo find a pattern with sed or awk and then:
- add a # at the beginning of the line containing it
- and add a # at the beginning of the following 2 lines, too?
Say, I want to comment out the line containing "which 0launch" and the two lines following it:
if [ -x "`which 0launch`" ]; then
exec 0launch http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer -S
fi
Expected result:
#if [ -x "`which 0launch`" ]; then
# exec 0launch http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer -S
#fi
I need this because I do not want to comment out every line containing "fi", just the "fi" of this specific if statement.
I need to grep a pattern which can be present in one line or could be split in 2 lines.Normal grep wont work in this case. Can anyone please help on this?There are 100's of files in which i need to search for this pattern so time is also a constrain.
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foo
foo
foo 0.00 0.00 0.00 pattern
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I 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.
Im tryng to replace in specific column and line number within a file where its 3erd column contain the same string in all lines.
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My goal is to replace only first and last ocurrences of "Normal player", with the following desired output:
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Im not sure how to use the "IF" and "AND" conditions together. I�ve tryed with the code below, but the script replaces the string for every line.
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how to replace values for specific column in first and last lines within same AWK script, without taking reference data in other columns?
I have such a file(test.txt):
abc 123 456
abc 256 145
axd 125 225
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I have a file with a number of strings like the ones below
string1#m1asdfe23easdf23wefas
string2#mfaaeb2vr1rhserh
anotherstring#ji89ensrsegr
anotherone#m1ynmdt324nsdt
I'm trying to delete everything after #** so that
string1#maasdfeaveasdfawefas
string2#mfaaebvrserhserh
becomes
string1#ma
string2#mf
tried sed 's/#..*//g' but as you all will know it returns string1, string2 etc.
I want to go through a log file and find pattern1 and then a pattern2 only after pattern 1.So for example I want to know howManyRecords was in 13:30.I figured I grep for "start time for the job" and then only after that (and before the next occurence of that) grep for "howManyRecords". Is this a sane way?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have to enhance the behaviour of a backup script written in perl. I don't need to change it, what I need to do is to create a bash script that does some checks like file name and file size, execute the backup script then check if the backup files match the original files.Here's how I try to do it:
- read the files from the original files folder
- store them in an array
- search in the array the files that have a specific file extension
- store the file names that match the search pattern (I know the backup script skips some files so I can hardcode the search pattern)
- run the backup script
- read the files from the backup folder
- store them in an array
- compare the original files name and size stored in an array with those from the backup folder
- send a report email
I have to use sed with this problem, and sed is extremely complicated, they could probably teach a whole class on this entire function.
Here's an example to show what I need to do:
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how would I say that every line before I reach the first match of "sweet" should be deleted so that the output will look like: Code...
I have 8 files, and each contains around 2000 lines. I want to search the particular word in these files between line number 1500 to 2500.
The output should look like:
sample_1.txt :
1510:declare var testing
sample_2.txt :
1610:declare var testing
sample_7.txt :
1610:declare var testing
sample_10.txt :
1710:declare var testing
Is it possible to use grep for this task?
I have a file called test. It has the following contents.Code:there youI want the output to be.Code:replaced youI am trying to use the sed command to replace every occurance of "hey newline there" with "replaced". I tried the following naive apporach.Code:sed 's/heythere/replace/' testThis gives a result containing the same data as the test file.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUsing 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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I want to remove duplicate or multiple similar lines from multiple files. I.e. if I have four files file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt and file4.txt and would like to find and remove similar lines from all these files keeping only one line from these similar lines. I only that uniq can be used to remove similar lines from a sorted file.
View 9 Replies View RelatedA function by name abc is called in many files. I want to copy all the lines with the function call to an output file.A simple grep on function name doesn't help me as the function call is spanning across multiple lines as follows:
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
How do you remove parts of strings using python? Such as, if I have something like:
Code:
erme1 sdifskenklsd
erme2 sdfjksliel
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wher i wil find rhce dumps of new pattern.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm writing a bash script to search html files, and when I find any occurrence of an img src tag like this:
<img src="123-picture-normal.jpg" alt="some random user entered text" border="0">
I want to add a second line below it that looks like:
<img src="123-picture-thumbnail.jpg" alt="some random user entered text" border="0">
All I need to do is duplicate the line but replace "normal" with "thumbnail"
Each file can have multiple img src tags with different numbered jpgs.
I have a feeling this is a job for sed, but I'm struggling with it. Any ideas?
I need to add some text using sed before and after the matching pattern. Does any one have any clue?e.g.cat /my/file | sed -e "s/first pattern/New Pattern/g" . /my/file.bakNow I need a result like New Pattern
View 7 Replies View Relatedif the given pattern exists in the file with the very next line starting and endingwith the same pattern , delete the line that starts and ends with the given pattern.So upon running on this file
hai people<PATTERN> we had
<PATTERN>a lot of fun<PATTERN>
writing scripts
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I am trying to split a pattern in perl and so far I cannot get it to work. I have a pattern that looks like this:
76|2455311|2455312|00:00:00|00:00:00|Once|0|Donkey | |
I always need to print out the 8th field. So in this case donkey. Here is what I have so far:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
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I'm working on a backup script which takes the following input:
Code:
RevBackup.sh <options> <source> <target>
The problem I'm having is that the source and target might contain spaces in the path. ie. /home/eRJe/My Documents
I would like the script to ignore " " (backslash-space) as being a delimiter. how could I do this without stopping a normal space from being a delimiter?
I could do this with IFS. But so far I have only found info about setting a delimiter and not to "ignore" one
yes, this is a homework question, but no - I'm not trying to get anyone to do it for me. I think that I am really close, but can't quite get one small aspect to work. in gawk, I want to include a variable name in the search string, but the below code doesn't work.
read -p 'Login name please? ' uLogName
userID=$(gawk -F: '/"$uLogName"/{print $3}' /etc/passwd)
echo $userID
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I'm looking for a solution of pattern detection in the logs and then allows to send me an email notification if it detects the previously specified term.I use already Logwatch, but I do not know if it is possible to configure it for that use.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAny solution using awk/sed/regexp or other standard linux utility (this is for a mix of RH versions)? I am dealing with some very large application log files. I want to see everything that has been written to the log since the last application restart.
For an example take a log file like this:
Code:
# cat test.log
1 msg
2 msg
3 restart 1
4 msg
5 restart 2
6 msg
The following command is close to what I want:
Code:
# awk '/restart/,G' test.log
3 restart 1
4 msg
5 restart 2
6 msg
But the awk command grabs the first restart not the last. If it was working the way I wanted I would see something like this:
Code:
# awk '/restart/,G' test.log
5 restart 2
6 msg
So, I need something in that search pattern that says look for the last occurrence. I know how to do this with a pipe line - I could reverse the file and then do a similar awk and reverse back, or I could find the number associated with the last restart and then use that in the awk search. But these just take too long because the file is too big.
I am new to perl and not able to understand all the pattern matching.
I using this script to send the status to another Nagios server using ncsa. Nsca don't transmit "()" So I need to remove them before sending.
Currently I am using
Code:
for the string
Quote:
This is working fine but its is not working when there is change inside the bracket for e.g (6290)
I want to change this code to work for any change with in the brackets.
I have the following command that greps "/etc/cron.allow" and displays the following 9 lines of $file grep -A 9 "/etc/cron.allow" $file On the other hand I would like to grep a file for a certain text display the next couple of lines and stop when i hit a specified word or blank or pattern.Basically I would like my grep to end when the shell hits a blank, certain key word or pattern specified in command.
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