Programming :: Shell Script To Delete Part Text Of A Line If Pattern Matches?
Apr 12, 2010
I am trying to create a shell script, on taking a input file as parameter, which need to do 3 things
1) create a copy of existing file.
2) add a new line to the copied file.
3) strip off all the absolute paths inside the copied file
The first 2 points are straight forward. but i am finding it difficult to acheive the 3rd point. myself not very good with awk and sed. but gave it a shot in vain. For example, the input script consists of below,
PROGRAM=`/usr/bin/basename $0`
HOST=`/usr/bin/uname -n`
echo Start $PROGRAM `/usr/bin/date` |
/usr/bin/tee -a $LOG
The output of the script should look like,
PROGRAM=`basename $0`
HOST=`uname -n`
echo Start $PROGRAM `date` |
tee -a $LOG
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Jan 13, 2010
I have to delete a certain line of text from the a textfile via ubuntu's shell scripting.I have done research, and it seems that most people advocate the usage of sed /d option. sed makes does not edit the text file. Hence, most options I discovered involved the use of a temporary variable/textfile and then overwriting the old file with the temporary new file. Is there anyway whereby I can bypass the use of temporary storage containers? I hope there is any magical combination of commands to edit the file directly.
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Feb 24, 2010
I want to search a file for a particular pattern and if pattern found replace the line with new text. i am using awk 'match($0,"pattern") != 0 {print $0} ' filename to check if the pattern exists.how do i get the line number of the pattern and delete that line and replace the line with my new text?
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Apr 1, 2011
if the given pattern exists in the file with the very next line starting and endingwith the same pattern , delete the line that starts and ends with the given pattern.So upon running on this file
hai people<PATTERN> we had
<PATTERN>a lot of fun<PATTERN>
writing scripts
[code]....
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Mar 27, 2011
I have a question about sed programming, actually a one-liner for which I cannot find a solution, right now. I need to delete a line matching a specific pattern only if it is the last line. In practice, I would put together the following:
Code:
#
# This deletes the last line of a file
[code]...
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Sep 16, 2010
I have such a file(test.txt):
abc 123 456
abc 256 145
axd 125 225
[code]...
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Jun 29, 2010
I have a file like so:
Code:
one
two
three
four
I would like to insert prior to the word "three" all items from this second file with the following contents:
Code:
four
three
two
one
Now my issue is, and I have been using both sed and awk currently, that after the second line of the new file is read there will of course now be 2 copies of the word "three" but I would like to only insert the final 2 words, ie "two" and "one" prior to only the first occurrence of the word "three" so final file will look like:
Code:
one
two
four
[code]....
So here there is now only one of each word from the second file joined to make the new file. For simple code I have tried something like the following:
Code:
while read line
do
awk -v n=$line '!f && /three/{print n;f++}1' file1 > tmp_file
mv tmp_file file1
done < file2
Now this works but seems very clumsy to me. There is obviously a better sed and / or awk out there.
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Jun 16, 2011
I have an interesting problem, sed '/pattern/{n;p;}' file, doesn't seem to be catching all of the matches in my file. As an example of this see below.test:
Turn
Turn
Turn
[code]....
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Apr 1, 2009
Was wondering if any perl guru's could help me with a quick log file adjustment. I have a text file that looks like so (tabs and newlines are revealed so you can see what separates the data):
There are maybe 100 lines of text in this file at any given time. I need to delete all duplicate lines only looking at the first bit of text prior to the first tab. It doesn't matter which one gets deleted as long as there are no two lines that begin with that same text at the beginning before the first tab. So in this example, either the fist line "1234" or the last line "1234" would need to be deleted. I already have code in my script that opens the files - I just need the code to read the text into an array and the part that would find matches based on the above criteria, and make the deletions.
If it would be easier, I can even do a system call and use SED (v4.1.5) and/or AWK (3.1.5) instead.
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Oct 16, 2010
i have a file containing contents as
1 2 3
2 2 3
11 2 3
now i want to delete the line which first column content is 1. so, if i pass the parametere 1 to function delete_row. is should remove the first row as
2 2 3
11 2 3
and then write the contents in file.
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Jan 20, 2010
got a textfile with : as delimiters in between fields. e.g.1:2:3:4:5:6Thomas Cruise:Johnavid:Peter:Betty:JaneThe names may or may not contain white spaces.I am required to substitute any one of these names in the file with a new one inputted by user.e.g. to change John to Johnny, David to Beckham, etc. without touching any of the other names in the same line. Just one at a time.So here's the sed expression I was trying out with:
sed -i "s/<(.:.:)David>/$1Beckham/" names.txt
I also tried:
sed -i "s/<(.*)David>/<1Beckham>/" names.txt
[code]....
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Jan 18, 2010
I have found many information about how to delete/grab a line in a text file including delete line with match a pattern but I did not find info about how to delete a line which match a pattern of a particular column only.
for example mydata.txt:
id type x y z
1 6 0.474611 0.227223 0.583947
[code]....
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Jul 22, 2010
I have requirement to delete some log files from a directory if a string"deletethisfile" is found.Then restart the application servers.1. Search for the string ?deletethisfile? in server.log file under a directory, If found 2. Stop that particular server.3. Delete the log file 4. Restart the server.
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Apr 18, 2011
Just using shell scripting, how can I insert text into the middle of a file name. The file has a predictable pattern, let's say 3 letters and 3 numbers and I want to insert text in the middle of those 2 patterns. Say ABC123 is the file name. As a result, the file name should be ABC.blah.123
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Mar 20, 2011
I'm new to the shell scripting. can any one help in creating shell script for matching the content of the specific variable with file. it should remove that line from the file if line is containing same value as variable and keep the other content as it is.i used grep -v for accomplishing the same. But grep will remove the pattern which is similar.For eg. Assume file "test" contain datas :aaffif i used grep -v command for the pattern "a" to this file this will remove content "aa" from the file. I want the pattern only "a" should remove from the file, if it is existing. otherwise it should throw alert content not exists.
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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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Jan 17, 2011
To put it simply I want the egrep command to return matches for a group rather than the whole pattern itself.For example:
Code:
egrep "reals([0-9]+?m[0-9]+?.[0-9]{3}s)" tmp
returns
"real 0m1.001s"
But I want it to return just "0m1.001s", the portion is the group. I can just apply egrep to whatever the first command returns but is there an easier way to do it?
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May 3, 2010
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.
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Apr 8, 2011
i need to add this line nameserver 208.67.122.221 from ISP before the first nameserver already exists in resolv.conf in all workstations i know
Code:
sed '/nameserver/ i
ameserver 208.67.122.221'
but that insert it on every line after nameserver not only before the first one
Code:
# blah blah
# blah blah
domain mydom.com
[code]....
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Dec 15, 2009
Here's the actual line of code, which exists in a bash script:
Code:
I want to replace instances like this:
Code:
with this:
Code:
Using this:
Code:
Which works great when there's only ONE of the pattern on the line. But in a case like the "actual line" I posted first, where there are two patterns, separated by a slash, only ONE gets replaced
Watch:
Code:
Why? There must be (among many other things) something I'm not knowing about sed, that's causing this.
-- I'm currently using the ~ (tilde) as the separator in the sed command. It doesn't matter, I've used / ~ and % with no difference.
-- As a test, I tried putting a different character(s) in the middle of the original pattern instead of the / but that made no difference.
-- I've come up with various similar but slightly different regexs that will do this replacement, but they all have had this same result.
-- I tried the sed single-quoted, double-quoted, and unquoted; the latter fails to execute, and the formers both work as described here: wrong.
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Oct 19, 2010
I have this complex log file filled with entries like
test1-G1/0/0-100-QOS-7001923-ROUTING (ClassMap)
Action: Resolved New
sysName: test1.local
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May 14, 2010
How do i run a part of code on exit in a shell script?Suppose i have four echo statements like the following:
echo "Stmt 1"
echo "Stmt 2"
....some code goes here...
[code]...
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Mar 17, 2011
I have a tab-delimited txt file as below. It is part of the original file.Quote:
##Hello
##Welcome
#C1 C2 C3
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Feb 12, 2010
My rquirement is I have a flat file with lot of lines on it.example:
line1
line2
line3
[code]....
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Sep 12, 2010
I currently have 3 files with floating point data that I wish to have in a single file with the format:
Code:
F1 F1 F3 Output
a1 b1 c1 a1 b1 c1
a2 b2 c2 a2 b2 c2
a3 b3 c3 a3 b3 c3
a4 b4 c4 a4 b4 c4
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Oct 18, 2010
I have two txt files containing x and y coordinates: xcoord.txt & ycoord.txt. I need to open them; read them line by line to get each coordinate; then each time I need to update Xs and Ys parameters inside another file called "dc.in" with the grabbed values.
Finally each time I need to run two exe files ( dc_2002 and st_vac) and produce corresponding output for each Xs and Ys ( dc.in is an input file for this exe files)
I have written the following code but it does not work:
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Nov 25, 2010
How can I replace one instance of a word in a text file with a piece of text that spreads several lines ? I know sed or awk is the way to go but don't know that how I can introduce new paragraphs using these tools
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May 3, 2010
a sed command to add a text before line number in text file? I have text file with 500 lines, and i want to add 3 more lines with text after line 300, OR before line 302, isn't no problem.
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Jul 7, 2011
bash 3.1.17(2) I'm trying do write a shell script which must operate on each line of an ASCII text file. So, all the code must be inside a loop, and inside the loop, the first thing should be to read the next line from the file. I have the bash read command. But it reads from stdin. Any way to make read from a file?
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Jul 6, 2010
I'm a bit new to Python programming and hoped that someone might be able to help with a problem I'm having. What I essentially want to do is to combine two text files line for line. I know how to do this in a bash script so to give you a better idea here's the code for that:
Code:
This is basically for adding on values to the end of a CSV file that uses ';' as the delimiter. So say file1 said:
And file2 said:
Then running this command would create merged_file1_and_file2 which would be:
The code I'm using at the moment is:
Code:
As I'm sure any experienced python programmer will see, this prints out the first line of the file "csvraw" and then all of the lines of "stamps" and then the remainder of "csvraw".
What I'd like to do is something like: (pseudo code, I know it's not python ;-))
Code:
Is this possible? I've tried googling and my Python Pocket Reference hasn't been much help. I've looked at pickling but that doesn't seem appropriate.
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