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Text between two tags
I wanna retrieve whatever is between these two tags – <tr> </tr> – from an html doc.
Now I don't have any specific html requirements that would warrant for an html parser. I just plain ...
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4answers
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Joining two files with unique identifier
I have two files with approximately 12900 and 4400 entries respectively, that I want to join. The files contain location information for all landbased weather observing stations around the globe.
The ...
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2answers
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How do I delete the first n lines of an ascii file using shell commands?
I have multiple files that contain ascii text information in the first 5-10 lines, followed by well-tabulated matrix information. In a shell script, I want to remove these first few lines of text so ...
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4answers
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How to prepend a license header recursively for all .h and .cpp files in a directory
I'm trying to add a license header to all header files and source files in a project directory using a for loop. This is not working, is there any other approach using sed?
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4answers
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Tool to create text files from a template
I have to regularly create 100+ text files from templates.
I currently use an overly complicated shell script. I think there is a smarter way to handle this, but I don't know how.
I have a "database" ...
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3answers
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How to search and replace text in all php-files in a directory and it's subdirectories
I am looking for a shell script that recursively traverses all .php files in a directory and performs a search & replace of a particular text pattern.
The search pattern is quite long ( > 5000 ...
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2answers
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Find all files with a Python Shebang
I'm trying to run a PEP8 check against a large source tree. The tree is comprised of a mix of files in various languages. The idea is to check all the Python scripts without having to explicitly list ...
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5answers
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Bash iterate over a list of strings
I have this bash script:
for opt in string1 string2 string3 ... string99
do somestuff
It works, but I would like to replace the explicit listing of my strings with a file which actually contains ...
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2answers
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Remove complete line in text files based on Tags
For example :
01.txt, 02.txt, 03.txt and 04.txt has following values.
HDR|A|B|C|D|F|||||||
DTL|1|2|3|4|5|||||||||||
DTL|5|6|7|8|9|||||||||||
TLR|A|B|C|D|F|||||||
I have to remove complete lines ...
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1answer
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Reading the contents of the file and splitting using ksh
We're using a ksh script for installing one product.
I've another config file, I'd need to read this configuration file from my main script
Content of the Configuration file:
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vote
1answer
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Reading two files into an IFS while loop — Is there a way to get a zero diff result in this case?
I have a text file full of several hundred lines of sequences like this:
b 29.
b 52.
c 84.
c 83.
c 94.
c 93.
c 61.
b 38.
c 81.
c 92.
c 28.
c 37.
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read file record by record and do transformation to the subsequent record based on above record and write into another file
Data file is fixed length file, and I want to read the file record by record and do transformations to the subsequent records based on the prior records (and write the results into another file).
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