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Need to make multiple multiline replacements in file
I have a file with multiple "paragraphs" like this:
<type>TRANS</type>
<attributes/>
<specification_method>rep_name</specification_method>
<trans_object_id/&...
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How to add content to a file before the last } character using Busybox utilities?
There is a file with contents
{
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Smith",
"is_alive": true,
"age": 27,
"address": {
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print characters between a specific pattern containing <>
i am asking for your help please.
I reviewed a lot of sources and did some testing with awk and sed, but i can't get it to work. Below is a snippet of a config file which i could get an output via ...
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Find all lines between two patterns, EXCLUSIVE of the second pattern?
Consider that I have the file listed below. I need to select all lines from every instance of the regex pattern Word A to before the regex pattern Word D.
Word A
Word B
Word C
Word D
Word E
Word F
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Grep a log file for SQL queries and their execution time
I have an application log file that also captures the execution time for each executed SQL statement, like below:-
Sample logs:
I 2023-11-15 07:18:00.743Z 1760463 37 ZVRwqItu6aw-b8eejMLI_gAAAAU 1@...
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Filtering out values in a column that are zero
I have the following dataset:
071,36,035,08422,46217,00000,1,A,Broadalbin village (pt.),New York,18,46,46,46,45,45,44,46,44,46,43,43
071,36,045,29322,56209,00000,1,A,Glen Park village (pt.),New York,...
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Grep Multiple Pattern located in different lines and print in the same line
I'm trying to find a way to grep information in the file that located in the different lines and one of the pattern is contain pattern of date and time.
below is the input
unwantedtext unwantedtext ...
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How do I use grep, awk, or sed to get a substring of a line up until a string literal?
I am trying to process a text file and omit a certain string literal if it occurs at the end of the line. E.g.:
Source:
ABC 123
DEF, characters I don't want
GHI, these characters are ok
Desired ...
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Find files matching one pattern, but not another, using grep, awk or sed [duplicate]
I need to locate .php and .pl files that do not contain one string (e.g. aaa), but do contain another (e.g. bbb).
I'm currently using this command:
find /path/ \( -iname '*.php*' -or -name '*.pl*' \) -...
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Replace the last half in every line of a file with corresponding part in another file
I have two files A and B. Every line in both files is considered an item. The format of every item is fixed, consisting of a key and description, separated by a space. as shown in the example below.
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grep from a specific value to specific value
For example, I have a file with data:
[2023-03-21 12:27:19 +0000] some_data
[2023-03-21 12:27:19 +0000] some_data
[2023-03-22 12:27:19 +0000] some_data
[2023-03-23 12:27:19 +0000] some_data
[2023-03-...
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Select all the text or characters between 2 text patterns that are repeating
Following is the sample .log file (there can be more lines in this)
2022 User abc (iii)
2023 defaa <party> ttt
2222221 User def (bbb)
20222 defaa <accoun> ttt
2222 User dddd (aaa)
3333 ...
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Extract first word from txt file before ending with "/" sign in linux which contains "db" word in txt line
I have abc.txt file which contains two lines. I want to extract first word in line which contains db word in particular line.
abc.txt:
XYZ/db_abc.sql
ijkl/tables/table_name/tl_abc.sql
When I tried ...
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"grep -A" but with some lines removed
The problem
The output of grep -A 4 davidson file.txt gives me:
davidson 0 27 |r|= 0.00244 e= [-0.04073962 0.42777949 0.44157777 0.45997235 0.45997235 0.51613738
0.55005554 0.5538866 0....
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How to keep previous and current line if the previous line contains common text?
How to keep previous and current line if the previous line contains common text?
I have a main file like this:
Hello_world
Anna
Frank
Jeremy
Hello_earth
Jessie
James
I would want 3 output files like ...
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