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merge x and x + n lines
I am writing a script which returns 15 lines of titles and 15 lines of URLs.
title 1
title 2
title 3
*snip*
title 14
title 15
http://example.com/query?1
http://example.com/query?2
http://example.com/...
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Is a text file bigger on Windows than on Linux because of carriage return?
Let's say I have the same ASCII text file on Linux and Windows:
one
two
three
The two files will have \n and \r\n respectively as EOL character on the two OSes.
Does this mean that the file on Linux ...
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How do I print line numbers but reset line counter at empty line?
I have a file.txt containing:
this is the first
second line
not last line
fourth but first
second in list
seventh in file
seventh with nl
Normally I would just cat and pipe | it into nl like so:
$&...
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using $ arguments on the command line and providing values for them at the end
rather than write scripts for every single process I need to do, I like to just save commands in a text file and copy and paste them on the command line. Of course, some of the specifics of the ...
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Read file line by line with awk to replace characters in certain line numbers
I have got this script here. It is supposed to run the loop by reading the file LineNumbers.file line by line (each contains a line number) and then accordingly replacing 0/0 with ./. in the ...
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The & is stripped out of a password using an append sed function [duplicate]
I have a password like this it is assigned as a variable called password2
I need to
sed -i "1s/^/commit_password=$commit_password2\n/" /Downloads/sidetest11.sh
I need to write this string to the ...
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How to delete particular lines in vim editor
Suppose I have 50 lines in my vim editor and I have to delete particular lines (5,9,16,28) in a single command.
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How to remove empty lines from begin and end of file?
I would like to remove empty lines from begin and the end of file, but not remove empty lines between lines. I think sed or awk would be the solution.
Source:
1:
2:
3:line1
4:
5:line2
6:
7:
8:
...
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Dovecot add existent folder from command line
I've insert a .INBOX.test folder in my mailbox folder /home/user/Maildir but I dont see it from Thunderbird.
What i have to do for see it?!
Thanks
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How to make a continuous vertical line in vim?
I want to make a table in vim.
Making a horizontal line is easy
______________________________
For the vertical I use this
yes "|" | head -10
But the result is bad
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I want ...
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How to make text wrap with diff -y?
When I use diff -y to compare two text files with long lines of text, the result cuts off each column and I cannot read an entire line. I would like instead the text to wrap (or fold as it is also ...
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Is there a way to count the number of lines of text in a file including non-delimited ones?
The POSIX wc command counts how many POSIX lines in a file. The POSIX standard defines a line as a text string with the suffix \n. Without \n, a pure text string can't be called a line.
But to me, ...
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sed: delete all lines before matching one, including this one
TARGET
How to delete all lines in a text file before a matching one, including this one?
Input file example:
apple
pear
banana
HI_THERE
lemon
coconut
orange
Desired output:
lemon
coconut
orange
...
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1answer
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Running command on each line of output immediately [duplicate]
I found out that when I run a command which executes a software that has continuous output lines e.g. traffic monitor like tcpdump or tshark the command keeps counting numbers on screen like 4, 8, 12 ....
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How can I delete a particular file through the command line?
I'm using Ubuntu and would like to know if there is an easy way to delete a single file through the command line. In the same way you might use 'rmdir -r' to delete a whole file.
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grep stringset as a single line
Let say in a text file if I do
grep FINAL *.msg
it returns
FINAL COMPUTATIONS: Elapsed Time: 000:30:55.65; CPU Time: 000:30:26.53
FINAL COMPUTATIONS: Elapsed Time: 000:28:11.77; CPU Time: ...
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check command line arguments
I would like to check if the first command line argument ($1) has an minimum amount of 10 characters and if it is empty.
The script is called as:
./myscript.sh 2018-08-14
I tried this but it doesn'...
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1answer
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Bash script Issue parsing text in line with whitespace characters
I have a list of commands to parse through for an audit, similar to this:
1. -a *policy name=PolicyName -a *policy workflow name=PolicyWorkflow -a *policy action name=PolicyAction -s Server -b ...
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1answer
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Special content and line by line [duplicate]
commrads!
I have a file:
# cat file
'\\.\Aktiv Co. Rutoken S 00 00\USER1@R69-20180109'
'\\.\Aktiv Co. Rutoken S 00 01\USER2@R69-20180109'
and i need execute line by line:
for LINE in `cat file`
do
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How can I split a line that contains an underline with awk?
I have this line, but I want each part of it separated and I want this separation to be done with awk.
The original line is the following:
3302491505_8139829707_13970101.csv
and what I want as an ...
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1answer
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sed command to replace a word from one file with entire line of another file [closed]
I want to use the sed command (or something that works) to replace a word in a template file with a word in a line of another file.
As an example I have a file with a list of words, each word is in ...
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1answer
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fix slapcat 79 character line wrap in output
I use slapcat to do a full-text search in our very large ldap directory.
As it is easier to match what I am looking for when I don't know where to look.
The problem is that it wraps long lines
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