Programming :: Delete Lines Between Match?

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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General :: Use Sed To Delete All Lines Before First Match Of A Pattern?

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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Mar 17, 2009

I'm trying to find the correct sed syntax to match from a given pattern to the end of the file and then append that pattern to the end of the file.

I was trying:

But that prints each line right after its original occurrence. I want to match the block and then append it to the end of the file.

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I know grep with "-a", "-b" as option does exist, but it needs the number of lines to be printed in advance. eg grep -b 10 "search_string" file so it will print 10 lines before a match is found.

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What is the best way to merge lines, in sed, awk or perl, that occur between certain strings? I'm new to sed scripting and I have been working on this for some time now. I have a large file (sample below) that I need to edit.

What I need looks something like this.

I'm working with a very large file so simply merging all the lines then adding a new line character before ">contig" and after "translated" won't work, at least not with sed.

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I need a substitution of a particular string (StringA) with another string (StringB). However, there may be more than one occurrence of StringA within the file, but only one instance needs to be changed, which is why I'm trying to be sure of it's positioning against something I know will be unique in the file, and will always have the same distance from the string to be replaced. So, I intend to match on a string (StringC) above the string to be substituted and then have sed go to StringA below and replace with StringB.

So far, I have had some success with the following:

Code:

... but I can't help thinking that there *has* to be a cleaner way of doing it.

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May 11, 2011

I'm trying to split a text file into various parts. Everything in between "123" and "break" (including linebreaks) goes into the splitted file.

e.g. using this text file:

This should split into 4 files. However I'm only getting 2 files: one for the line "123break" and one for "123 blah break". The two occurrences that contain linebreaks are being ignored. The .* part of my match should capture linebreaks seeing that I'm using the /s modifier shouldn't it? Even when I use the match /(123 break)/gs it still doesn't capture the first occurrence. I'm using Perl v5.12.3 (from ActiveState) on Windows XP. The text file is also in Windows format.

Code listed below.

The above code generates two files Output_1.txt and Output_2.txt which contain "123break" and "123 blah break" respectively. I want it to generate four files.

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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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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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Mar 23, 2010

I am trying to edit a print file.

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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";

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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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abc 256 145
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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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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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I have the following query:

Code:
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In table2 the datetime fields are about 1 to 2 seconds off due to the source of the data, which I cannot change.

Is it possible via a query match table1.datetime & table2.datetime by HH:MM (ie. to the minute instead of to the second)?

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I have done this before but i cant really recall now

I have a text file and i want to grep the word "interface" and 10 lines following it. I think there was some switch like grep -A or something ?

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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

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$ echo -e "AsometAhingA
somethingA
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How do you remove parts of strings using python? Such as, if I have something like:

Code:
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Jun 30, 2011

Code:
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5
6
7
8
9
10
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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
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i am having following lines in a file called test.

subscribe parser for dinesh
extend size for dinesh
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I want to delete all lines which contains the string "dinesh". Is it possible.

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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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