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Extract line number of a file which is having a non zero value before a specified string
I'm having a file which contains following data
1. verification: 10 passed 0 failed
2. verification: 10 passed 0 failed
3. verification: 10 passed 1 failed
4. verification: 10 passed 3 failed
5. ...
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Replace multiple strings in a single pass
I'm looking for a way to replace placeholder strings in a template file with concrete values, with common Unix tools (bash, sed, awk, maybe perl). It is important that the replacement is done in a ...
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how to extract part of a filename before '.' or before extension
I have files in format below:
abc_asdfjhdsf_dfksfj_12345678.csv
hjjhk_hkjh_asd_asd_sd_98765498.csv
hgh_nn_25342134.exe
I want to get the value before the . and after the last _.
The result would ...
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grep to see if a line ends with a particular string
Hello I have a file that has a lot of lines that end with main.css">, and some of them are repeated.
I want to keep only one copy of these lines and delete the repeated line.
Could I use grep to ...
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How to get a string between two special characters using Shell?
I want to get a string between two special characters. For example,
/home/oracle/ggs/text.ext
I want oracle/ggs in the above string.
How can I do this using bash?
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Trim last chars from a line
I have a csv file and the lines have different length. But all of them ends with a number surrounded by a pair of braces. For example,
........{5}
........{16}
I'd like to remove the number and the ...
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Replace new line + 4x space to new line in stdout
I need join 2 lines into one in stdout - replace new line AND 4x space with one space but new line without space don't touch
tcpdump -vvv ... -l | xyz
this is output:
2014-06-06 AAA
BBB
...
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How to capture error message from executed command?
I was tasked to create an automated server hardening script and one thing that they need is a report of all the output of each command executed. I want to store the error message inside a string and ...
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Case-insensitive substring search in a shell script [closed]
I'm trying to create a script which runs a command and compares the output of that command to a certain string to see if it contains that substring, ignoring the case of the string needed to be ...
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How to split such a string into array in bash
I have problem with output of a program. I need to launch a command in bash and take its ouput (string) and split it to add new lines in certain places. The string looks like this:
battery.charge: ...
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C Shell script condition for if string contains a newline character
I'm not sure how to express this using the csh string matching syntax. I want to test whether a csh variable contains a newline. I'm basically looking for:
if ($mystr !~ <pattern for strings which ...
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How to add a string with spaces at the end of command output
I want to add a string with spaces at the end of each line of the output of ls command.
#!/bin/sh
STRING_WITH_SPACES="this should be at the end of output"
ls -lh | sed 's|$| '$STRING_WITH_SPACES'|'
...
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What does the hash in ${parameter/#pattern/string} do?
I saw the following substitution in this article:
${PWD/#$HOME/~}
How does it compare to this?
${PWD/$HOME/~}
Both seem to be the same. I don't know why the hash was included.
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Creating an array with IFS set to a different value
I am trying to construct an array and write to a file in this format, i.e. the file's content should be something like this
hero_pairscore=( askdjfh sdf,sdlkfj lksf,dfgdf,dsflkgj,asdlkf ....)
Where ...
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How can I select a beginning…ending portion of a '/' delimited string (PS1 prompt in my case)
I am customizing my PS1 prompt, specifically the $PWD part which is delimited by /'s
among several things I like having the current directory.
However if the directory is too long I'd like to have ...
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How to print strings matching a pattern with grep?
I want to get a list of strings matching the following pattern:
CLASS_NAME:"*"
where * represents any number of characters.
I tried:
grep -o CLASS_NAME:\".*\" script.js
and
grep -o ...
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How to find the difference in tokens in two strings using Unix tools?
I have two strings as below-
token1, token2, token3, token4, token5, token6, token8, token9, token10
token2, token7, token4, token3, token5, token6, token8, token10, token9
Visually, I can see ...
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bash find lines starting with string
I have a bunch of files and I want to find which one contains sequential lines starting with a certain string.
For example for the following file :
Aaaaaaaaaaaa
Baaaaaaaaaaa
Cxxxxxxxxx
Cyyyyyyyyy
...
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How to find and replace a field column value in UNIX
I have file with the value say which is delimited with |
123-|aaa|bbb|123|123.0|123-|123.01-|-123.02|123.03-|aaa|bbb|123-|aaa-|-bbb|cc-cc|123.04-|aa123-|123.05-
I need to pick the column values ...
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How to reverse a string made of digit in bash?
What is the best way to turn out digits in number?
E.g.
$ echo 123 | hook
321
$ echo 12358 | hook
85321
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Parsing process command-line arguments from pargs in a shell script
I get list of PIDs in my bash scripts (Java processes) and have to analyze their command-line arguments to determine which instance of server each PID corresponds to.
At the moment I do it that way ...
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Compare two text files and find matching lines
I have two files A and B. A looks like this (4 to 6 lines):
GAGA
CAGA
GGGT
TATT
file B is a really big file with thousands of lines, here is a short example:
AAATGTCAAGAGACAGAAATGTCAAGAGGGT
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How to remove a specific character in a string but only if there are no numbers in that line in Linux
I've been stumped with this seemingly simple-to-fix problem.. well, for a while.
Here's example output from the file I need to edit:
$cat file
George Washington
Geneva Convention
123,281,029 USD
...
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How to loop a read function in Bash Script?
I needed to remove spaces and capital letters to various strings of text like:
"My Name is Mauro" -> "my_name_is_mauro"
So I have created this bash script:lowercase_underscore.sh (call it the ...
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How to match exact string using `sed`? But not the part of it.?
I have a input file FILE1.TXT as below.
11 id1
12
13 AGE = 20
14 NAME = NAME1
15
16 id2
17
18 AGE = 30
19 NAME = NAME2
.
.
.
110 idXYZ
111
112 AGE = AGEXYZ
113 NAME = ...
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ls for cut -f string not working
I have a problem with feeding cut output to ls.
This doesn't work:
rep="S1_1000,0000-00-00c,0000-00-00d,0000-00-00e"
ls tab_yeast/{`echo $rep | cut -f2- -d','`}*.tab.gz
ls: cannot access ...
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string substitutions: all occurrences
A simple question, but I can't find the answer. the zsh documentation overwhelms me :-(
function z ()
{
echo ${1:s/the/THE}
}
$ z thethethe
THEthethe
...
How can I get all 'the' to be replaced ...
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Script to split string
@terdon's answer provides this script:
find . -type f -name "*mp3" | while read file; do
album="$(basename "$(dirname "$file")")";
filename="$(basename "$file")";
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Is there a simple way to get array of all arguments that do not begin with a hyphen?
zsh includes a powerful utility for parsing command-line options zparseopts, but for quick shell scripts and shell functions, but is there an easy way to extract the array of all command-line ...
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Add thousands separator in a number
In python
re.sub(r"(?<=.)(?=(?:...)+$)", ",", stroke )
To split a number by triplets, e.g.:
echo 123456789 | python -c 'import sys;import re; print re.sub(r"(?<=.)(?=(?:...)+$)", ",", ...
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Sed - string substitution with groupings
I have a largish directory with filenames formatted like
Some_Folder-(FOL001)-clean
what I'm trying to do is display the pattern between the brackets at the start like
FOL001 ...
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create an alias that runs a command with string replacement from arguments [duplicate]
I'm trying to write a couple of shortcut aliases to quickly navigate to the httpdocs folders of the various domains and subdomains on my server. basically so I can type something like:
$ pwd
/
$ # ...
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Match a single character in a string bash script
My issues is that I want to read a character from the stdin and compare it with a string value. If that character exists then I want to display a message. Eg, saving % into the variable $a:
$ read a
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Extract date from a variable in a different format
Let me explain you the problem
$ date +%c -d "$d"
Tue 31 Dec 2013 01:13:06 PM CET
$ date +'Today is %F' -d "$d"
Today is 2013-12-31
This solution corresponds to current date.
But I have one ...
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UNIX: How to extract date from a variable storing a UNIX DATE [duplicate]
I am facing following issue:
Input:
F=`date +%Y%m%d`
echo $F
Output:
F=20131231
But when trying this(File Name:A.sh):
C=`date`
G=`$C +%Y%m%d`
echo $C
echo $G
Output:
A.sh[6]: Tue: not ...
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Problem with sed on a array containing strings containing spaces
I have a array looking like this:
array=("(1 2 3) (123)" "2 31 (231)" "4 5 1 (451)" "(te)xt (1234)")
This array is a example. It does not look like this but its structure is the same (the strings ...
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bash - replace space with new line
How can I replace spaces with new lines on an input like:
/path/to/file /path/to/file2 /path/to/file3 /path/to/file4 /path/to/file5 etc...
To obtain the following:
/path/to/file
/path/to/file2
...
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how do I set quotes around a variable so that the programs sees them as quote marks
I am trying to get quotes around a variable to make is just like I typed it in the terminal
to get this script to work. it shows " quotes around the varibale "
but still does not see it as quotes, as ...
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Change value of a strings representing number
I have the following expression :
a="2013"
How can I change the value of a to "2012".
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Looping through commands' results, KSH script
I'd like to put two strings in two different variables.
Let's take a small example.
after a simple grep, I got this :
$ grep nl.*acc.*bas :
ABAS01=...
ABAS02=...
I'd like to have two variables, ...
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a string representation using regex (modified)
I would like to use regular expression to represent a pattern with the following type of characteristics
1) It includes a continuous sequence of digit values. The length of this sequence it at least ...
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Test variable if its string or not
I'm writing a script which will have some arguments and so I am using getopts
but i want to solve the problem with one argument.
I use a switch, for example -d, and I want the argument for -d will ...
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Bash : compare two strings with space
I am trying to write a bash script which run a command and compare the result with another string.
#!/bin/bash -x
STATUS=`/root/setup_ha show --password-file=/root/password | grep ">HA State" | ...
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splitting the string in bash script
I am new to bash script. I am taking some input from user and checking details about that.
Example:
$HOME/Documents/test/one.txt
I take the above string as an input and want to retrieve one.txt, I ...
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Automatic replacement of strings in gedit
I want to replace some strings defined by me in gedit, after a word has been completed and/or the document has been saved. For example \ðrac should be replaced with \frac
How do I do this in gedit or ...
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Transform list of files (with date) into list of dates
I have a directory where I store backups. The are in the format Complete Backup YYYY-MM-DD hh-mm-ss.tar.bz2 I have found out that you can feed a date into the date command using date --date="YY-MM-DD ...
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Comparing Indices of two strings
I have two double quoted strings of same length, that look like this:
"$con" - (consists of spaces and *'s):
* ****** *** ** * **
and ...
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Can awk use field identifiers also for shell strings (variables)?
Well, this apparently is not possible the way I'm trying it.
This alternate approach to obtain bar as a resulting string works, though:
#!/bin/bash
path1=/usr/tmp/foo/bar/baz
awk -F/ '{print $5}' ...
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Extract a sub-string out of a variable's value
I have a string in the form of segment_78787 which is stored in a variable called $ID in my shell script. I need to get the second part "78787" and assign it to another variable.
I tried like
...
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strings command printing some extra characters
I am trying to capture mysql traffic using tcpdump and converting it to text using strings command, but while capturing mysql traffic, I am getting some extra character at the end of each character. I ...
