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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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3answers
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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6answers
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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 ...