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Scripting to domain allocation to server

I have two text files: file #1: domain.txt cocacola.com airtel.com pepsi.com file #2: servers.txt 192.0.53.42 , 4 # 4 domains already allocated on server 192.0.53.42 192.53.1.2 , 1 # 1 ...
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How to edit files in-place while performing operation on the values matching the searched pattern?

Given a list files containing random text and many datetimes in ISO format in it (e.g "2012-07-02T10:47:24+02:00"), how can I find all these datetimes and add 2 hours to each one ? Ideally a solution ...
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How can I find and filter a specific column in a .csv file? [duplicate]

I have .csv files with the following structure: cat,dog,mouse,pig,bird,cow,... 21,34,54,566,78,1,... 23,10,12,569,56,4,... 32,20,13,123,56,3,... 34,30,44,322,66,2,... I want to filter the column ...
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Comparing two columns with two columns

I have a file that I need to compare the values in two columns with another two columns. For examples: Item A B C D 1 201 3101 3101 201 2 3101 201 202 3101 3 3101 201 ...
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How can I split a text file into multiple text files using Perl?

I have a file ABC_TabDelim.txt that contains the following: 00:00:00:00 00:00:05:00 01SC_001.jpg 00:00:14:29 00:00:19:29 01SC_002.jpg 00:01:07:20 00:01:12:20 01SC_003.jpg 00:00:00:00 00:00:03:25 ...
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How to match 2 large file and print the difference in shell script

I have 2 files. File1 has 400k numerical records. e.g: 1 2 3 4 5 6 .. and so on File 2 also has 420k numerical records. e.g: 1 2 3 4 6 .. and so on Both these file are in unsorted manner. I want ...
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System calls, AWK, and Bringing in external inputs

awk '{ TEMPVAR="/usr/bin"; printf("%s", system("ls $TEMPVAR")); }' empty In this example I'm trying to bring in the variable TEMPVAR into the system call. How would I do this? What I'm aiming to ...
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How to implement a horizontal cat?

Standard cat concatenates files line by line (row by row, if you will). I find myself needing a horizontal cat command more and more often recently; i.e. a command that takes a list of files and ...
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How to traverse a file and extract words using their index?

The given file must not be stored in variable and then traversed due to memory size restrictions: Example: var=$(cat FILE) for i in $var do echo $i done How do you traverse all strings in a file ...
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intersection of two files according to the first column

I have two files in file A, there are sequence_numbers in the other file B, there are many columns, and the first column is sequnce numbers, I want to get a files with all the lines in the B with the ...
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Using join with two files fails on larger file sizes

I am having some issues with a script that is using join to join two files. Eaxmple input files contains lines like this: Here are the input file and the output of the join command: ...
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How to make and apply (patch) one side diff?

I want to make a shell script that updates a config file. The file present on the server has information, like various IP addresses. The new file has more code, from new configs added to the system, ...
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Text Manipulation Across multiple lines

I Have a file that has text like this: AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD 1234 5678 9012 3456 EEEE 7890 etc... And i want to match up the Alphabetic lines with the Numeric lines so they are like this: ...
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dynamic display of a running process?

I am writing a script and acording to that when i run it certain info will be displayed on the output screen. for example say the constant data displayed is: my name is mukesh. i am 27 years old ...
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To list out duplicate filenames in a listing?

bash-3.00$ cat f.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 mukesh other 102 Nov 5 18:32 f1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 mukesh other 19 Nov 5 18:32 f2.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 mukesh other 204 Nov 5 18:32 ...
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Making a simple PHP script process text in a pipe

Last week I wanted to convert some simplified Chinese characters into traditional ones. I found a deceptively nice looking shell one-liner, which today I found out was 20% error prone. So I did some ...
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Comparing files and their properties

I get information of a certain set of files in my mail every day, which looks like this: 58623208 Sep 14 20:08 blbn_blfbe_drv 57904920 Sep 14 19:54 blbn_cycmn 55814208 Sep 14 06:02 clsa_Upd 38912000 ...
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Help improving my AWK skills

This program works as I intended but I feel like I used some clumsy methods to get the out put I desired(especially with my use of print commands and variable declarations) Could some one improve ...
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2answers
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How to do a text replacement in a big folder hierarchy?

I want to search and replace some text in a large set of files excluding some instances. For each line, I want a prompt asking me if I need to replace that line or not. Something similar to vim's ...
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4answers
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Replacing text from a list of replacements. Added complication: backslashes

I have a file A that contains pairs of strings, one per line: \old1 \new1 \old2 \new2 ..... I would like to iterate over file A, and for each line perform the replacement (e.g. "\old1 -> \new1") ...
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6answers
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get numeric ASCII value for a character

I'm trying to write a shell script which asks for an ASCII character in the range A-Z or a-z and returns its equivalent numerical value. For example, the output might look like the following: ...
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7answers
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Looping through files with spaces in the names?

I wrote the following script to diff the outputs of two directores with all the same files in them as such: #!/bin/bash for file in `find . -name "*.csv"` do echo "file = $file"; diff ...