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Sed - replace a string with a character of another line
I am trying to write a script to reformat some text. pages: page1: gui-rows: 6 items: '6': material: CAT_SPAWN_EGG buy: 999999999 sell: -1 '7': ...
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How to Replace Multiple Lines using Files on Termux
Assume I have many *.txt files on directory texts with the below contents. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus. Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque. ...
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Change column width size in command output
I have the output from a command in which some text is hidden due to the column width size; are there any commands that can help display all of the output in that column? Currently, I use the grep ...
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Appending spaces to the rest of fixed length record in UNIX Script
I have the data for about 40 characters in the record of 250 length(FIXED). But I want to append the remaining 250-40=210 characters with SPACES. How do we do in UNIX Script?
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What text editor supports positioning the cursor anywhere, even beyond the end of line?
I want an editor that can put the cursor anywhere in the text document, as if it were filled with spaces everywhere. This way I can place the cursor anywhere and type or paste right away, without the ...
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Refining Saxon outuput
As a follow-up to this question, I now have the following command: set +H && java -cp saxon-he-10.5.jar net.sf.saxon.Query -config:saxon.xml -s:rss.xml -qs:'//item/link!substring-after(., &...
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How can I simplify this?
Can you help me simplify this script? This works but I think that there is a easier way to do it, but I can't find it. The file: Car Brand:Mercedes | Country:Germany | Car Model:300 SL | Year:04-1960 ...
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Extract info in loops from specific column based on list of input
I have fileA and fileB. fileA is storing a list of names I wanted to extract from the second column of fileB. fileA: QW123 BH876 PR009 fileB: MJ194 PR009 100 PR009 IJ940 78 JG948 BH448 58 ...
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Detect odd characters in big text files
I need to check if my entire files contained only 4 characters; "A", "T", "G" and "C". I used to split the characters using sed and then grep -o and -v to ...
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busybox format date
I got a command which works perfectly on linux date -d @$(git log -1 --format=%at) '+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S' and now I'm trying to do the same formatting with busybox (v1.31.1), but it always fails with ...
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How to format columns using awk? [closed]
The file rectData.ssv contains: rectangle1;1;2 rectangle2;1;10 rect4;10;10 How could the following command be changed to align the columns: $ awk -F ";" '{ print "area of", $1,":", $2 * $3}' ...
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Regex within awk from txt file with one line
I am currently working on a script to wipe hard drives. The first script is already working and checks if there are new hard drives available. If there is a new disk available it will list it in a ...
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Search last / and print next 2 characters and whole line
I have a file abc.log abc01 /opt/app/ggs/ggs/12.1.2.1.10/dirdat/fo027146 abc02 /opt/app/ggs/ggs/12.1.2.1.10/dirdat/fb027146 abc03 /opt/app/ggs/ggs/12.1.2.1.10/dirdat/fc027146 I ...
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Get output of parts of PS in one single CSV line
I need to collect the CPU consumption of some processes that match a string but i need it on a single line separated by comman and was wondering if anyone knows if this is possible to do in one single ...
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How to write data to a csv file with comma in string values
I need to hit a database with basic select queries and write the result output in a file. using sqlcmd I execute the queries and write the results to the output csv file. While trying to open this ...
