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.
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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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
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.
I am writing a shell script to delete a file if it exists.
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Code: BEGIN { FS="|"
OFS="|"
SUBSEP="|"
[code]...
I would like to delete a single line from a file that contains many lines passing through the same values as the two parameters. Again, I would like to delete a single line and not all those that contain parameters. How can I make bash?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have such a file(test.txt):
abc 123 456
abc 256 145
axd 125 225
[code]...
Quote:Originally Posted by topcatI would like to know how i can write a shell script to delete a line if a particular pattern exists?E.g. I have a text file with multiple lines. Say 1000s. in the following pattern.
username@email.com:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.com:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.net:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.edu:149.0.3.4:1
If the patternusername@email.com exists then the line "username@email.com:149.0.3.4:1 should be deleted from the file.I have a very similar question but I need to delete one line in a file which matches one very precise instance of a string only. Let's assume I have a file composed of thousands of lines and let's call the file chap-secrets. Let's take the following sample entries:
Code:
#USERNAME SERVER PASSWORD IP
pp pptpd blahblah *
[code]....
I have 2 external hdd in wich I have all my files. yesterday, I have copied all the files from hdd2 to hdd1 and I want to eliminate duplicates so I used FSLint to find them,now I want to make a shell script to delete all the files/entries (read from the log file) that begin with.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have 2 external hdd in wich I have all my files.... yesterday, I have copied all the files from hdd2 to hdd1 and I want to eliminate duplicates so I used FSLint to find them, now, I have a txt file that looks like this:
Code: /media/My Book/!!!MIS DOCUMENTOS/Documentos/2 sep2003-jun2009 USB/!TESIS/TESIS/TESIS CVT LABVIEW Y CODEWARRIOR/LabVIEW85RuntimeEngineFull.exe /media/My Book/HDD_Toshiba/Borrable/Pen_Drive_4GB/Tesis/Super CD de la tesis/LabView/LabVIEW85RuntimeEngineFull.exe multiplied by millions of entries...
now I want to make a shell script to delete all the files/entries (read from the log file) that begin with:
Code:
/media/My Book/HDD_Toshiba/**** Since HDD_Toshiba is the folder in hdd1 (MyBook) that contains all the files from hdd2
I am beginner in this business of shell script and I have no idea how to do the following: I would like to replace the lines of my file that contains 'CFL=' by 'CFL=0.5'. Note that I want to replace the full line meaning
View 11 Replies View RelatedI recently started shell programming and my task now is to do a menu display.Currently i am stuck whereby user will input both title and author and it will delete it.
Do i have to use sed command?
I want to access a file, and check the length of every line.After, i want to check and replace all lines with length over 10 characters, with a message.Does anyone have a clue on that?
View 1 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
[code]....
Delete this with maximum prejudice, mods.
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Code:
#
# This deletes the last line of a file
[code]...
I have made a shell script to copy and delete files through FTP.I want to first delete all txt files and then mput all txt files.
Code:
ftp ()
{
[code]....
I have a log file /var/log/messages. Now all i want is to delete the first line through script without disturbing provisioning the file.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was creating a few scripts, I am trying to create a restore script to restore files that have previously been moved to a folder I selected. When moved I stored the original path for these files all in one text file.
I want to know if anyone can tell me how to delete the line from the file after using it restore the file. I have used the grep command to search through the file "pathName" to find where the file was stored but now want to delete that same line.
I am facing a problem in Windows due to a virus called Newfolder.exe which creats files with the same name as it's parent directory and an extension .exe and this happens for every directory in the entire hierarchy in the infected pen drive. The antivirus detects them, but is sucking slow. So I thought this is a good opportunity to use the concepts of the all mighty shell script to remove those as they follow the same pattern. Say my complete path is
Code:
/home/pkd/fol1/
The virus would have created an file with complete paths
Quote:
/home/pkd/fol1.exe
If fol1 has two more directories fol11 and fol12 Then there would be two more .exe(virus created) in the following path
Quote:
/home/pkd/fol11/fol11.exe
/home/pkd/fol12/fol12.exe
I have a shell script that need to create some files:
1) backup files of user passed in file ( that will be written by this shell ).
2) temp files that the shell will create and later delete/remove.
This shell script will be used from my local dir ( I am not a super or a sysadmin ). Users of this shell will call this script to run on their local files in their respective directories. When my script runs, it errors with the following:
cp: cannot create regular file `./listfile.txt.backup': Permission denied
/home/myUser/tools/myShellScript: line 12: listfile.txt: Permission denied
for the temp I was able to avoid this error by creating the temp file in the /tmp directory. All I want is for this shell script to run, create/modify/backup files in user's local dirs.
The user dir has the following permission:
drwxr-xr-x testDir
the file that needs to be backed-up has:
-rw-r--r-- listfile.txt.
I have a log file which is continously being accessed. Now I want to delete the first line without disturbing the file.Is it possible? The Issue is the log file is being provisioned with ^@^@^@ characters in the first line occupying huge space.So I need to get rid of that. I dont have time to work with root cause but just a script to reduce this space.
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I've got a bunch of files with revision numbers as part of a legacy asset-management system:
bar.r7.js
bar.r8.js
bar.r9.js
bar.r10.js
bar.r11.js
[Code]....
I want to keep the last three of each, so in the above list the command would delete bar.r7.js, bar.r8.js and foo.r1.js.
I have 2 external hdd in wich I have all my files.... yesterday, I have copied all the files from hdd1 to hdd2 and I want to eliminate duplicates so I used FSLint to find them, now, I have a txt file that looks like this code...
now I want to make a shell script to delete all the files/entries (read from the log file) that begin with code...
I am bouncing a file across platforms (windows->solaris->mainframe), and the file is starting out with a "special" character (the registered trademark "circle R") in some of the records. This character is not in the EBCDIC character set on the MF, so it is unrecognizable. The MF developer I am working with asked if it is possible to replace the character with a specific hex value (AF) before it gets to the MF.
I was putzing around with sed, tr, etc. on the ksh command line, hoping to find an easy way to get one of them to substitute hex instead of ASCII. I have found that the usual shell utilities recognize the trademark character, so homing in on what to replace is solved. But I cannot get anything to actually substitute in the hex sequence I want. E.g. I was thinking something like...
>cat special_file | sed 's/R/AF/g'
But my version of sed does not seem to have hex "editing" capability.
I'm using sed to remove certain line in a text file based on a match with 2 variables from input. Here is how it looks like in file
Philip S:Odds:45:343
Mike Junior:Odds:3:56
I prompt for 2 inputs in variable form which is compared to the first 2 fields of the above text (: seperated). So say i enter Philip S and Odds then it should delete the entire first line.
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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example:
filename = test.txt
contents:
[foo]
test>test
test>test
test>test
[Code]....
so, in this example. I'd like to search the file for string 'foo' and delete all lines from that line until [bar] (not deleting the line with [bar])