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Manipulation of text by programs, scripts, etc.
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How to get data count between two strings with multiple occurences in the same file
I have the data in my file as
START-OF-FIELDS
ID
NAME
DEPT
END-OF-FIELDS
START-OF-DATA
1|joy|cs
2|sam|ec
END-OF-DATA
START-OF-FIELDS
ID
NAME
DOB
DEPT
ADDRESS
END-OF-FIELDS
START-OF-DATA
...
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3answers
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compare two files based on a column and print it
I have two big files of 400,000 lines. I want to compare the column 1 of the second file with column 1 of first file recursively. If they match I would like to print the whole line. It is a sorted ...
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2answers
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Split out data from a column
So at the moment I have some input email addresses and would like to separate the alias and the domain, then copy them to the end of the line. For example, from a line that has ...
0
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2answers
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Formatting quotes from the fortune to use it with conky
I'm using fortune cookie outputs in my conky script.
My fortune output is in the following format:
Text1 : Some message including( line break tags, e.g. and comma(,),=,semicolon(;) like ...
4
votes
1answer
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current spotify track in dwm status bar
I'm trying to get the current track playing in spotify into my dwm status bar. I got to the point where I get the information with this command.
enter code heredbus-send --print-reply --session ...
2
votes
1answer
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set flag to remove duplicate records from a file based on some values of the record
I have a file having the following records (pipe delimited):
SK200-10|ALBUMIN-SK|INS|SEKURE ALBUMIN 2 X ...
1
vote
1answer
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Fastest way of find and replace in large file with replacing filed present in another file
I have two files. File1 is a csv with 60 fields:
111,Check1|^/h1/h2/h3,22062014184500,20,0.....
111,Check2|^/h43/h40/h9,22062014184500,4,.....
111,Check3|^/h1/h3/h4,22062014184500,0,0,.....
File2 ...
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1answer
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Insert a line after a block of text with sed
I have text file: file.conf
### Option: LogFile
# Name of log file.
# If not set, syslog is used.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Default:
# LogFile=
### Option: LogFileSize
# Maximum size of ...
0
votes
1answer
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Remove given parts of a string with sed?
$ echo '<a href="mailto:NA?Subject=AB42525216 - FOOBAR bla bla - bla">NA</a>'
<a href="mailto:NA?Subject=AB42525216 - FOOBAR bla bla - bla">NA</a>
$ echo '<a ...
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1answer
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Python: Move lines backward in a textfile
Imagine a text file which contains random text and two unique markers
01 text text text
02 text text text
03 __DELETE_THIS_FIRST__
04 text text text
05 text text text
06 text text text
07 text text ...
0
votes
1answer
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How to print gmail inbox messages
I want to print inbox messages one by one (like cat someFile) so that I can parse the message contents.
something like printGmail InboxMesg1 | grep some | sed some
Using curl I can access the ...
2
votes
0answers
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Extracting lines around keys from a file
I have a large file with around 15 million lines. The odd lines contains the keys (but not only the keys) and the even lines are the data. That is, the file is something like:
WRTZ Tyrosine
...
0
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0answers
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Editing metadata with bash
I have a bunch of photos(jpeg, bmp, png) that I have arranged in such a manner that the metadata is in html form in a separate file.
I would like create some script to read this html file and edit ...
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0answers
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sybase and iconv
I inherited an old Ubuntu 6.10 server running php 5.1.6 which is using sybase to connect to MSSQL. A user submitted some text containing an en-dash and crashed one of my script. It turns out sybase ...
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0answers
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Need to compare column values between files and print out into new file accordingly
I need to compare the 2nd column from FileA to the 1st column in FileB. If not found, print the entire line of FileA into a new, FileC, otherwise if found then also print the entire line of FileA ...
