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sed + how to remove character/s that start or ended on each number

How do I remove the . character(s) that start in the beginning of each number or end on each number? Remark – perl one liner also good alternative for sed. Example input: .23.12.44.5. .233.3.3.3 ...
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5answers
202 views

How to remove multiple blank lines from a file?

I have some text-files I use to take notes in - just plain text, usually just using cat >> file. Occasionally I use a blank line or two (just return - the new-line character) to specify a new ...
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2answers
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Trimming one part if equal to another part?

I use an e-mail quote attribution string like this: On dd mmm yyyy hh:mm +hhmm, from info@example.org (Example Dot Org): where info@example.org is the sender's e-mail address and Example Dot Org is ...
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2answers
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Reordering strings in linux

How can I change lines around using the command line? e.g. I have these lines: Acct-Status-Type = Start User-Name = "37XXXXXXX" Event-Timestamp = "Apr 12 2013 15:56:55 AMT" I need to ...
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3answers
63 views

Sorting IP address according to the second field in file

in my ksh script I need to add the following task ( OS - linux/solaris ) I have the following file more test.txt /etc/backup/app 172.1.120 172.110.120 /etc/backup/app 172.1.120.12 ...
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1answer
47 views

How to transform two delimited ASCII files

These are 2 common delimited, text file transformation problems I'd like to find scripts to do (I dont know if awk or perl is best for these tasks). csh is the default shell on my Solaris10 unix ...
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3answers
169 views

awk, sed, grep, perl… which to print out in this case?

I have this syntax in a file (http response times from analog): <thead><tr><th class="x">seconds</th><th class="R">reqs</th><th ...
1
vote
3answers
261 views

linux/solaris + verify duplicate valid IP address from file

what the best way to find duplicate IP from file ( I have ksh script in this script I need to write function that check for duplicate IP ) for example if IP - 192.1926.23.52 exists twice in file - ...
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5answers
208 views

Replacing lines in files with file contents

I have several files which contain some PHP includes and I want to substitute them with the file contents. The file looks like foo <?php include("file1.php"); ?> bar baz <?php ...
2
votes
4answers
320 views

Replace all but a set of characters in a file with newline

how to delete all characters in file except numbers and "." , each word (numbers/dot) should be in new line in file see example2 the solution can be with sed or awk or ksh syntax remark - ...
0
votes
3answers
64 views

Fixing header and print

I have header starting with '>' and I want fix the header by keeping first word and removing other shown as in output.txt and print it input.txt >AGAJ01065549.1 ...
0
votes
3answers
222 views

Split and print

I have tab-demlimted text file with 50,000lines. I want to split the first column and print as shown in output.txt Input.txt rt|371443144|mb|MN556661.1| 2200443 A rt|371443344|mb|MN556645.1| ...
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votes
2answers
315 views

Replacing missing value blank space with zero

I have input.txt tab-delimited text file around 30K lines, I would like to check each row (s1..s30K lines) for missing value (i.e blank space) and fill the missing value with zero value.See out.txt ...
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vote
1answer
156 views

Combining files with 4 columns each, into 4 files for each column [closed]

So I have a bunch of text files which look like this: T1 r1 a b c d r2 d e f g ... T2 r1 h i j k r2 l m n o ... And I want to make FOUR different text files in the following ...
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5answers
151 views

frequency of occurence

I have a tab-delimited text file, that is around 3K lines long. I want to calculate frequency of data appearing in it, in 10,000 ranges. Input.txt Price 500 1500 10001 15000 17000 ...
2
votes
4answers
166 views

Output some sections of a text file [closed]

I have input like the following: >gi|481443199|gb|MH447771.1| 49 0 0 0 1 50 0 0 1 0 >gi|987078004|gb|RTYJ01067061.1| 412 0 0 1 ...
2
votes
3answers
405 views

Average rows with same first column

Given a file with two columns: Id ht 510 69 510 67 510 65 5l0 62 510 59 601 29 601 26 601 21 601 20 I need a way to coalesce all rows with the same ID into one that has an average height. In this ...
2
votes
3answers
1k views

Extracting column from comma separated text

I have a long comma-separated delimited file with 20K lines. Here's a sample: "","id","number1","number2","number3","number4","number5","number6","number7" ...
4
votes
6answers
248 views

What is the easiest way to check if column A and B values goes both ways with AWK? [closed]

What is the easiest way to check if column A and B values goes both ways? Output to check: Mike John John Mike Pamela Barbara Barbara Pamela Mike Paul Roger Paul Desired output Mike <-> ...
2
votes
3answers
81 views

Need to parse a double entry table with two pairs

I have this two-entry table resulting from a program output: Variable1 : Value1 Variable2 : Value2 Variable3 : Value3 Variable4 : Value4 Variable5 : Value5 Variable6 : Value6 ...
0
votes
2answers
168 views

Getting data from matching list

list.txt GETID_17049_knownids_1/2_Confidence_0.625_Length_2532 GETID_9248_knownids_6/10_Confidence_0.439_Length_2474 GETID_11084_knownids_3/3_Confidence_0.600_Length_1451 ...
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vote
3answers
1k views

sed/awk/perl - delete spaces between two strings/words + solaris 10

please advice how to delete the spaces between "=" to the value/string ( after the "=" character) , should be implemented by awk or sed or perl command and command must to fit for solaris OS , ( ...
3
votes
2answers
100 views

Column mismatch and substituting

input.txt (tab-delimted) TTTTOTTT00000000008 RTTTT899 5.00E-28 TTTTOTTT00000000046 RTTTWRR 3.00E-31 TTTTOTTT00000000051 2.00E-11 TTTTOTTT00000000051 7.00E-12 TTTTOTTT00000000054 ...
2
votes
2answers
189 views

Get row data for non-matching column values

I want to read the file (1600 rows) and get rows only the columns have different values (sno1, sno2, sno3 & sno4-should be not be equal value) and it should be above 50%.The example of output ...
3
votes
2answers
171 views

Print row contain maximum and minimum value

I need to read the file (contains 16K rows)and print the entire row if any of columns and all columns contains max value (100) and all columns contain min value (0).The ouput example is given ...
0
votes
1answer
322 views

Extract value from different column and replace in another column

I am a biologist, I need one more help in text file editing. I would like to get the help of computer experts ##fsdfsd ##sdd-ver gen 5.5.7 Xm Gen CDS 1 148 . + . ...
2
votes
1answer
187 views

text processing-perl

I am a biologist. I would like help of computer experts to help in text file editing. Here is what the input file looks like: ##dsfsd2 ##sdf-sdf sasg 5.6.3 gi34_ex Gen CDS 161 317 . ...
4
votes
2answers
2k views

Compare two file columns

I have long text files with space-delimited fields: cat file1.txt Id leng sal mon 25671 34343 56565 5565 44888 56565 45554 6868 23343 23423 26226 6224 77765 88688 87464 6848 66776 23343 63463 ...
3
votes
2answers
255 views

Parsing a text-file table and aggregating information

I have long text file with the following columns, space-delimited: Id Pos Ref Var Cn SF:R1 SR He Ho NC cm|371443199 22 G A R Pass:8 0 1 0 0 ...
2
votes
2answers
376 views

How can I turn ugly output into pretty, useful information?

How can I turn this ugly output into pretty, useful data? The output: /* ---------- TA#box#AbC_p ---------- */ insert_job: TA#box#AbC_p job_type: a #owner: bob permission: gx date_conditions: 1 ...
8
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6answers
728 views

Delete lines beginning with #

How do I delete lines beginning with a #, given that there can be whitespace on the left and right of the #? # Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically
3
votes
3answers
164 views

What does . match?

In working with regular expressions, I have been told that a dot character . will match everything. Except for newlines \n. Are there any other exceptions? What about the NUL character \0, or the ...
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6answers
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Is there any alternative to grep's -A -B -C switches (to print few lines before and after )?

grep -A 2 -B 3 prints 2 lines after the grep string and prints 3 lines before. grep -C 3 prints 3 Lines before and 3 lines after Unfortunately, the grep I'm using does not support these ...