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3answers
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Transforming text to tabular form

I have a text file with the following structure: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff 1 2 3 4 5 6 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 ggg hhh iii jjj kkk lll 7 8 9 10 11 12 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 and I want the ...
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5answers
136 views

Split the content of a file in linux

I have a text file which has content like this: abc.tar^@xxx.tar^@yyy.tar^@ Say for example I have this content in a file named abc.txt and I want to split the content and write the first two ...
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votes
2answers
84 views

Diverting a file write to process

I have an OSX GUI application which I can't change - it writes new CVS lines to a log file when it completes a job. I'd like to work with these new lines, but they are constantly being added. Is ...
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3answers
67 views

Replace all the occurences of a term in the files contained in a folder

In a folder on my system, I have a C++ project that I'm trying to compile. This process uses some C++ idioms which are not supported by my compiler version. In particular, often inside the code it is ...
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vote
1answer
436 views

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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1answer
586 views

How to implement a horizontal cat? [duplicate]

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 ...
2
votes
1answer
315 views

Regarding generating intersection and union of two csv files

I have two csv files, there are some overlap columns between these two files. Assume one file is called as A.csv and another is called as B.csv. The intersection of A and B is called as C. I would ...
2
votes
2answers
89 views

reformat a text file to have all text on one line using CentOS 5.6

I have a 210-line block of HTML that I have stored in a HTML for debugging purposes. The HTML, as you would expect, is formatted accordingly so is stored in the file with spaces and tabs. Is it ...
3
votes
3answers
167 views

Regarding separate a single file into multiple files according to line separation

Currently, I have a plain text file, A, such as lowest priority very high significance. outstanding very novel In this file, every line contains a sentence. I want to separate this file into ...
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5answers
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How to remove duplicate lines inside a text file?

A huge (up to 2 GiB) text file of mine contains about 100 exact duplicates of every line in it (useless in my case, as the file is a CSV-like data table). What I need is to remove all the repetitions ...
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2answers
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How can I find out how many lines a text file contains without viewing it?

How can I find how many lines a text file contains without opening the file in an editor or a viewer application? Is there a handy Unix console command to see the number?
2
votes
4answers
167 views

Lines 1,2,3,4,…,n-1, n to lines n,n-1, …,4,3,2,1

I just realized that I could solve this problem by reversing line numbers from 1, 2, 3,...,n to n, n-1, ..., 3,2,1 and then use the same logic as earlier. So I want to know how can I reverse the order ...
2
votes
2answers
241 views

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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vote
1answer
586 views

remove carriage return character from large binary file

I have a large binary file ( nearly binary file ! ) which has many \r\n in it [ gets Generated in windows env and doesnt have controle over generating application ]. I want to remove \r from this ...
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3answers
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Delete the first n bytes of files

I've got an extreme problem, and all of the solutions I can imagine are complicated. According to my UNIX/Linux experience there must be an easy way. I want to delete the first 31 bytes of each file ...

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