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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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5answers
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Compare two files with first column and remove duplicate row from 2nd file in shell script
I will ask my question with an example. I have 2 files:
File #1:
118D FC300_R5_TP FX.B 32775 2112 6 2038 6 2112 0
118E FC300_R5_TP FX.B 32775 2136 7 ...
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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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1answer
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Find and Replace Recursive
I want to modify every file in a directory recursively.
I want to replace:
<?php
with
<?php
/**
*
* Copyright (C) MyCompany, Ltd. - All Rights Reserved
* Unauthorized copying of ...
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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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3answers
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How do I append text to the beginning and end of multiple text files in Bash?
I have a directory full of text files. My goal is to append text to the beginning and end of all of them. The text that goes at the beginning and end is the same for each file.
Based on code I got ...
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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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5answers
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List out strings which are substrings of other strings in the list
I have a list of names like so:
dog_bone
dog_collar
dragon
cool_dragon
lion
lion_trainer
dog
I need to extract out names that appear in other names like so:
dragon
lion
dog
I looked through the ...
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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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1answer
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Simple Bash Script
I have a simple problem, but unfortunately I don't know where to even start (I'm just starting out). So, what I want to do is ultimately increase my vocabulary. I got the idea to strip the most ...
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2answers
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Merging files by rows
Is it possible to copy the whole rows of File1 in a new File3 following the instruction given by File2 by using a simple bash script using sed or awk?
File1: /*two or more columns*/
AC 456324
DC ...
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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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vote
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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vote
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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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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2answers
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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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