Summary: i want to open a file automatically (not by using vi) (ex. from another file) insert few characters at say 12th position to 15th position and save it ...
Summary: my problem is i want to replace a line in a file e.g i want to replace the line DBUID= (some name) with DBUID=$user variable file name is sample.ksh...
Summary: I was wondering if you could help me with a script to remove ALL the lines in a file that contain the word "BOUNDARY". I have the script like this so...
Summary: Hi I would like to insert a line to many files in a directory : for example: abc has to be inserted to files harry.pf barry.pf tom.pf The common denom...
Summary: I want to extract certain lines of a file between separators such as: ------ aaabbbb ------ aaaaa xxxxxx ------ xxxxx What utility (other than awk or ...
Summary: How can I remove a line in a file? e.g. File containing the following 307 319 352 If I wanted to remove line 319, what would be the syntax? Any alive ...
Summary: Hi, I am trying to find a way to grep for consecutive lines in a file. I need to see if a specific string appears 24 consecutive times in a log file ...
Summary: i hv written a shell script which exports data to a file and i want to filter out one particular line from that file and manipulate that line further....
Summary: How do i delete first line of a file. The file starts with page break ^L. The first line contains the page break ^L. The file may have multiple pagebr...
Summary: I want to compare lines in a file and if there is duplicate information in a certain field(s) remove it but leave the field seperators. fileA a632713,...
Summary: I want to dump all the stdout to a file, so while I am testing a program, I can get a printout of the test, for documentation. Basically just type in ...
Summary: I am sending some xml code that is produced by a script to a file, but every time i run this script the code is written to the file without overwritin...
Summary: hi, I am trying to write a script to delete few lines from the existing files. The requirement is as follows: 1. I need to grep for a pattern "abc" in...
Summary: Hello all, I have wriiten a script to create a html file on the fly. It is as shown below :- 1>echo " " > log.html 2>cat test.log >> log.html 3>echo "...
Summary: Hi, I have a header file containing a few comma-separated fields.example: (start file) emp,emp_name,location,salary,post_code,sac,le (end file) This f...
Summary: in a sed file I'd like to append the line to another file if it matches and substitutes s/abc/cat/w filename However I don't want it to create a new ...
Summary: Hi, I have a file with a HDR, some lines (number of lines can vary) and a TRL. And this set is repeating. I have to insert 2 lines just after the TRL,...
Summary: Hi guys this my sample file sample.ksh DBUID=testdatabase DBLOC=wm4r2 i want replace DBUID=testdatabase by DBUID=$myvariable (i.e myvariable=arundata...
Summary: Not to be dense, but can you clarify that for me? I'm printing to a printer called comprm, and I want the last, say, 500 lines of a file called PA851...
Summary: Hello, Recently began writing some UNIX scripts with a lot of success. One problem I have encountered that really stumps me. In an alias file, af...
Summary: Jim, Thanks for your solution. It's working if i run it from the command line; however when i put it in a file and run as the script and redirect the...
Summary: Hi, I have a file with 60 lines. I want to write from line 10-20 to one file, 21-40 to another new file, 41-60 to another new file. Can anybody please...
Summary: I would use exec (as below) to redirect all stdout and stderr to a log file. That single command eliminates redirecting on many individual commands, ...
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