Programming :: Sed - Delete Blank Lines Between Two Patterns?
Jul 28, 2010
I am trying to delete any blank lines within two patterns e.g.
Address: 53 HIGH STREET Cred Id :
MYTOWN
MYCOUNTY
MM12 6MM
Pay Method : Crossed Cheque
The start of my pattern is "Cred Id" and the end is "Pay Method" and I want to delete the blank lines between county and post code. I did find the code below but it doesn't seem to change anything:
sed -ne '/Cred Id/,/Pay Method/!bp' -e '/^$/b' -e -e p ll.out
I can get it to print just the range I'm interested in by doing sed -ne '/Cred Id/,/Pay Method/p'.
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Jun 16, 2010
I have a file with three consecutive blank lines. I want to delete two and keep one.Also, if anyone could direct me towards a guide on regular expressions particularly as they apply to sed, I would be grateful. I am having a hell of a time figuring out the syntax.
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Aug 13, 2010
I am trying to compare a list of patterns from one file and grep them against another file and print out only the unique patterns. Unfortunately these files are so large that they have yet to run to completion. Here's the command that I used:
Code: grep -L -f file_one.txt file_two.txt > output.output Here's some example data:
Code:
>FQ4HLCS01BMR4N
>FQ4HLCS01BZNV6
>FQ4HLCS01B40PB
>FQ4HLCS01BT43K
>FQ4HLCS01CB736
>FQ4HLCS01BU3UM
>FQ4HLCS01BBIFQ
how to increase efficiency or use another command?
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Apr 11, 2011
I have a file that goes like this:
I need to grep the lines between pattern 1 and pattern 2 and not the lines following pattern 2. Cannot use grep -A(num), as there are varying number of lines following pattern 1. Also, used awk one-liners, but results are erroneous.
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Jun 16, 2010
I have a file that I need to scan and output data between Number and End containing string 123.
Number 1:
6
7
123
1
End
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May 15, 2011
My problem is like this I have to delete all lines between two pattern match example- suppose below is the content of the file then i have to delete all lines between text1 and text2
...
text1
abc
def
ghi
[Code]....
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May 4, 2011
there is a way to add line spaces when asking for user interaction in a script. For example:
Code:
SPACE
Hello what is your name?
SPACE
SPACE
So this is asking a question but has a space/empty line at the top of the screen and 2 spaces/empty lines below. I've seen it done in a bash script using for each line/space needed
Code:
echo ""
So what does perl use?
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Mar 23, 2010
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.
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Apr 15, 2011
I have a file looks like the following:
digraph topology
{
"192.168.3.254" -> "10.1.1.11"[label="1.000", style=solid];
"192.168.3.254" -> "10.1.1.12"[label="1.000", style=solid];
[code]...
Order of these lines are random... So I cannot delete line #19, for example... And you can see that top four lines I want to delete are pairs. So there might be some clever way to detect the lines, if a line has both "1.9" and "1.11", then delete the line... I am new to perl language. The following is the code I have now... I think I just need to write some code inside the while loop checking if I want to delete the line $dotline before I write to a NEW file.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$TOPPATH = "/tmp";
$NAME = "topology";
$FILENAME = "$TOPPATH/$NAME.dot";
[code]....
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Jan 7, 2011
All I want is a command that reads one data file with several columns and prints it in another one.However, whenever the value in one specific column alters, it prints one empty line in the new file. For example, consider the file
2.54000000 2.54000000
2.54000000 2.54000000
2.54000000 2.54000000
2.54000000 2.56000000
[code]....
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Sep 16, 2010
I have such a file(test.txt):
abc 123 456
abc 256 145
axd 125 225
[code]...
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Dec 25, 2010
i have a file like this
# comments
#comments
#comments
bla bla
[code]....
i want to grep lines which do not start with # or a blank space. like
bla bla
bla bla
how do i do this? i tried grep --invert-match '^#' which gives lines not starting with # but gives me blank lines too i tried grep --invert-match '^#|^ ' which will give lines not starting with # OR not starting with blank ( which means any line including ones starting with #
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Jan 17, 2009
I have an old-address-list file which is having around 1500 entries. I need to convert this addresses in to a specific format.
The old-address-list file>
# cat old-address-list-file
dn: CN=Muhammad Hadhi K.M,OU=IT Dept,OU=Example Company H.O,DC=example,DC=com
cn: Muhammad Hadhi K.M
[code]....
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Jan 26, 2010
I've come across an unusual requirement for a service in my Ubuntu system.Simply put, I need to find a way to search for all instances of a term in a file, delete lines containing containing that term, and delete four lines below each instance of that term. ither that, or copy the entirety of a file to a new file and skip over all lines containing the term plus four below it.This sounds kinda weird, I know. Without going too far into detail, I either have to change the logfile format for a server I'm running which is a huge pain in the butt, or I can just run a script to edit an HTML report generated from said logs. (Said report is really just for managers to peruse, and I like my log format, so I'm pursuing option 2.)
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Sep 17, 2009
I am trying to delete lines of a file if they contain text that is present on another file. For example
> cat one.txt:
a
b
c
d
[code]....
I get the following output:
> ./test.sh one.txt two.txt
a
b
d
e
[code]....
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Aug 10, 2010
I am interested in using the grep method in the shell of my CentOS machine to obtain patterns from a file and use them to search through another file and highlight the patterns found. For example:
pattern file:
one
two
three
test file:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAoneAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAthreeAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Jan 20, 2009
I'm having a small issue with regex matching in Perl. I'm pretty certain it's a simple fix, but it all looks correct to me...
If I run the following:
Code:
It prints out all the lines containing a 'P', as one would expect. But when the regex is
Code:
I get zero lines printed. It seems to match only single-character patterns.
The file I'm reading is: (It has the same effect whether I leave it with Windows linebreaks or convert them to unix).
Code:
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Nov 24, 2009
How do you remove parts of strings using python? Such as, if I have something like:
Code:
erme1 sdifskenklsd
erme2 sdfjksliel
[code]....
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Nov 2, 2009
I'm trying to make a program to search for each blank line in a text archive, where blocks are separated by this blank lines. I want to write the number of the line in a new file "numblank.txt" I have this, but I think I have a problem with the "blank line" simbol.
awk '{if ($1 == /^$/) print NR }' $file1 >! numblank.tmp
where file1 is given as:
text
text
text
[code]...
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Jun 30, 2011
Code:
[root@station3 ~]# seq 10 | sed -e '1,2d' -e '1,2d'
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
We can see that sed just deletes the first three lines. How "seq 10 | sed -e '1,2d' -e '1,2d'"works?
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Jun 5, 2011
looking to delete the last 6 lines of a file with sed. figured out how to delete the last line..but i want the last six.
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Dec 21, 2010
I have a bunch of text files, all of them have a .txt extension. They are all located in subfolders of the /MyTextFiles folder (but could be anywhere, no idea what depth). If any line in any of the text files has the word "hello" I want to delete that entire line. I know sed and awk are made for this problem but I can't seem to get the syntax correct.
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Jul 20, 2010
I have a file that contains 100 ligns, i need to write a script that read 70 lignes and redirect those 70 ligns to another files and these 70ligns have to be erased in the first file
when i write this command
head -70 somefile.txt>test.txt
or
sed -n 70p somefile.txt>test.txt
i have these 70 lines in the text.txt files
but these 70 lines have to be deleted inthe first file somefile.txt
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Apr 27, 2010
i've got a file with sorted words - one on each line.How could it be possible to delete thouse lines that have words of length 1 or 2 (1-2 letters). I guess a good way it will be with AWK, n its fuction length(), but getting it, i dont know how to delete those very lines.
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Apr 14, 2010
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:
Code...
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...
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Aug 18, 2010
I am currently using a command like this to remove blank lines and lines which contain (not necessarily begin) with a #. Is there a better/simpler command?
cat /etc/apache2/default-server.conf | sed /^$/d | grep -v '#'
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Jun 17, 2011
How can I delete empty lines in OpenOffice Calc?
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Mar 21, 2011
i am having following lines in a file called test.
subscribe parser for dinesh
extend size for dinesh
subscribe parser for anish
unsubscribe parser for dinesh
extend size for arvind
I want to delete all lines which contains the string "dinesh". Is it possible.
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Jul 7, 2011
I 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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Feb 7, 2011
I have a file "test.txt" with following data
#1
aaa
#2
bbb
#3
aaa
#4
ddd
I wanted it to be displayed as
#1
aaa
#2
bbb
#4
ddd
I used awk "'!x[$0]++' test.txt > file.new"
,but it deleted #1 also.I tried using uniq command but i didn't work.
Can anyone Please let me know is there any way to do this using shell script.
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