Manipulation of text by programs, scripts, etc.
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“Multipass” scripted modification of large file in-place (file-system level)?
I have just came to the problem of having to cut some lines from a large (gigabyte) sized file, and being aware of potential CPU hog trying to read it in memory, I wanted to edit it in-place ...
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3answers
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How to get data count between two strings with multiple occurences in the same file
I have the data in my file as
START-OF-FIELDS
ID
NAME
DEPT
END-OF-FIELDS
START-OF-DATA
1|joy|cs
2|sam|ec
END-OF-DATA
START-OF-FIELDS
ID
NAME
DOB
DEPT
ADDRESS
END-OF-FIELDS
START-OF-DATA
...
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2answers
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Unix command for pattern matching
I want to count the number of words and print the matched pattern lines which matches exactly with following pattern:
abc-ERROR:
The input File contains:
# abc-ERROR: xyxxkkfgfr
# def-Error: ...
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How to delete a line containing pattern which is first found after a specific pattern
I am writting a shell script to delete an entry from a specific group.
eg: file name is dest.xml
<domain id="1" group_name="group1">
<node id="ABC">
<node id="PQR">
...
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0answers
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sybase and iconv
I inherited an old Ubuntu 6.10 server running php 5.1.6 which is using sybase to connect to MSSQL. A user submitted some text containing an en-dash and crashed one of my script. It turns out sybase ...
