I have a one-line file with no newline character at the end of the line. When i run the following:
diff oneline-file.txt any-file.txt | wc -c
I get:
Warning: missing newline character in oneline-file.txt
Why is this an error? How can i fix it? I could do this first:
echo "\n" >> oneline-file.txt
I'd rather do something that does not change the file. Thx.
Thanks to Barmar. This steered me in the right direction. Here's what I used:
diff <(sed 's/$/\n/g' oneline-file.txt) <(cat any-file.txt) | wc -c
You could pipe the result of your echo into diff, replacing the file name as an argument to diff with - (telling it to get that input from stdin).
You can use process substitution to echo the newline after the file:
diff <(cat oneline-file.txt; echo "") any-file.txt | wc -c
Related
How do I get the line count of a file from the 2nd line of the file, as the first line is header?
wc -l filename
Is there a way to set some condition into it?
Use the tail command:
tail -n +2 file | wc -l
-n +2 would print the file starting from line 2
You can use awk to count from 2nd line onwards:
awk 'NR>1{c++} END {print c}' file
Or simply use NR variable in the END block:
awk 'END {print NR-1}' file
Alternatively using BASH arithmetic subtract 1 from wc output:
echo $(( $(wc -l < file) -1 ))
Delete first line with GNU sed:
sed '1d' file | wc -l
There is no way to tweak the wc command itself. You should whether process the result of the command, or use another tool.
As suggested in other answers, if you are running Bash, a good way is to put the result of the command into an arithmetic expression like $(( $(command) - 1 )).
In case if you are searching for a portable solution, here is a Perl version:
perl -e '1 while <>; print $. - 1' < file
The variable $. holds the number of lines read since a file handle was last closed. The while loop reads all the lines from the file.
Alternately, you could just subtract 2.
echo $((`cat FILE | wc -l`-2))
Please try this one. It will be solved your problem
$ tail -n +2 filename | wc -l
I have the following bash code which loops through a text file, line by line .. im trying to prefix the work 'prefix' to each line but instead am getting this error:
rob#laptop:~/Desktop$ ./appendToFile.sh stusers.txt kp
stusers.txt
kp
./appendToFile.sh: line 11: /bin/sed: Argument list too long
115000_210org#house.com,passw0rd
This is the bash script ..
#!/bin/bash
file=$1
string=$2
echo "$file"
echo "$string"
for line in `cat $file`
do
sed -e 's/^/prefix/' $line
echo "$line"
done < $file
What am i doing wrong here?
Update:
Performing head on file dumps all the lines onto a single line of the terminal, probably related?
rob#laptop:~/Desktop$ head stusers.txt
rob#laptop:~/Desktop$ ouse.com,passw0rd
a one-line awk command should do the trick also:
awk '{print "prefix" $0}' file
Concerning your original error:
./appendToFile.sh: line 11: /bin/sed: Argument list too long
The problem is with this line of code:
sed -e 's/^/prefix/' $line
$line in this context is file name that sed is running against. To correct your code you should fix this line as such:
echo $line | sed -e 's/^/prefix/'
(Also note that your original code should not have the < $file at the end.)
William Pursell addresses this issue correctly in both of his suggestions.
However, I believe you have correctly identified that there is an issue with your original text file. dos2unix will not correct this issue, as it only strips the carriage returns Windows sticks on the end of lines. (However, if you are attempting to read a Linux file in Windows, you would get a mammoth line with no returns.)
Assuming that it is not an issue with the end of line characters in your text file, William Pursell's, Andy Lester's, or nullrevolution's answers will work.
A variation on the while read... suggestion:
while read -r line; do echo "PREFIX " $line; done < $file
This could be run directly from the shell (no need for a batch / script file):
while read -r line; do echo "kp" $line; done < stusers.txt
The entire loop can be replaced by a single sed command that operates on the entire file:
sed -e 's/^/prefix/' $file
A Perl way to do it would be:
perl -p -e's/^/prefix' filename
or
perl -p -e'$_ = "prefix $_"' filename
In either case, that reads from filename and prints the prefixed lines to STDOUT.
If you add a -i flag, then Perl will modify the file in place. You can also specify multiple filenames and Perl will magically do all of them.
Instead of the for loop, it is more appropriate to use while read...:
while read -r line; do
do
echo "$line" | sed -e 's/^/prefix/'
done < $file
But you would be much better off with the simpler:
sed -e 's/^/prefix/' $file
Use sed. Just change the word prefix.
sed -e 's/^/prefix/' file.ext
If you want to save the output in another file
sed -e 's/^/prefix/' file.ext > file_new.ext
You don't need sed, just concatenate the strings in the echo command
while IFS= read -r line; do
echo "prefix$line"
done < filename
Your loop iterates over each word in the file:
for line in `cat file`; ...
sed -i '1a\
Your Text' file1 file2 file3
A solution without sed/awk and while loops:
xargs -n1 printf "$prefix%s\n" < "$file"
In a very large file I need to find the position (line number) of a string, then extract the 2 lines above and below that string.
To do this right now - I launch vi, find the string, note it's line number, exit vi, then use sed to extract the lines surrounding that string.
Is there a way to streamline this process... ideally without having to run vi at all.
Maybe using grep like this:
grep -n -2 your_searched_for_string your_large_text_file
Will give you almost what you expect
-n : tells grep to print the line number
-2 : print 2 additional lines (and the wanted string, of course)
You can do
grep -C 2 yourSearch yourFile
To send it in a file, do
grep -C 2 yourSearch yourFile > result.txt
Use grep -n string file to find the line number without opening the file.
you can use cat -n to display the line numbers and then use awk to get the line number after a grep in order to extract line number:
cat -n FILE | grep WORD | awk '{print $1;}'
although grep already does what you mention if you give -C 2 (above/below 2 lines):
grep -C 2 WORD FILE
You can do it with grep -A and -B options, like this:
grep -B 2 -A 2 "searchstring" | sed 3d
grep will find the line and show two lines of context before and after, later remove the third one with sed.
If you want to automate this, simple you can do a Shell Script. You may try the following:
#!/bin/bash
VAL="your_search_keyword"
NUM1=`grep -n "$VAL" file.txt | cut -f1 -d ':'`
echo $NUM1 #show the line number of the matched keyword
MYNUMUP=$["NUM1"-1] #get above keyword
MYNUMDOWN=$["NUM1"+1] #get below keyword
sed -n "$MYNUMUP"p file.txt #display above keyword
sed -n "$MYNUMDOWN"p file.txt #display below keyword
The plus point of the script is you can change the keyword in VAL variable as you like and execute to get the needed output.
Here's what output looks like, basically:
? RESTRequestParamObj.cpp
? plugins/dupfields2/_DupFields.cpp
? plugins/dupfields2/_DupFields.h
I need to get the filenames from second column and pass them to rm. There's AWK script that goes like awk '{print $2}' but I was wondering if there's another solution.
If you have spaces between the ? and the filename then:
cut -c9-
If they're tabs then:
cut -f2
Placed your output in file
$> cat ./text
? RESTRequestParamObj.cpp
? plugins/dupfields2/_DupFields.cpp
? plugins/dupfields2/_DupFields.h
Edit it with sed
$> cat ./text | sed -r -e 's/(\?[\ \t]*)(.*)/\2/g'
RESTRequestParamObj.cpp
plugins/dupfields2/_DupFields.cpp
plugins/dupfields2/_DupFields.h
Sed in here is matching 2 parts of line -
? with tabs or spaces
Other characters until the end f the line
And then it changes whole line only with second part.
This might work for you:
echo "? RESTRequestParamObj.cpp" | sed -e 's/^\S\+/rm /' | sh
or using GNU sed
echo "? RESTRequestParamObj.cpp"| sed -r 's/^\S+/rm /e'
bash only solution, assuming your output comes from stdin:
while read line; do echo ${line##* }; done
use cut/perl instead
cut -f2 -t'\t'|xargs rm -rf
<your output>|perl -ne '#cols = split /\t/; print $cols[1]'|xargs rm -rf
I need to remove a line in a specified file if it has more than one word in it using a bash script in linux.
e.g. file:
$ cat testfile
This is a text
file
This line should be deleted
this-should-not.
awk 'NF<=1{print}' testfile
a word being a run of non-whitespace.
Just for fun, here's a pure bash version which doesn't call any other executable (since you asked for it in bash):
$ while read a b; do if [ -z "$b" ]; then echo $a;fi;done <testfile
awk '!/[ \t]/{print $1}' testfile
This reads "print the first element of lines that don't contain a space or a tab".
Empty lines will be output (since they don't contain more than one word).
Easy enough:
$ egrep -v '\S\s+\S' testfile
$ sed '/ /d' << EOF
> This is a text
> file
>
> This line should be deleted
> this-should-not.
> EOF
file
this-should-not.
If you want to edit files in-place (without any backups), you may also use man ed:
cat <<-'EOF' | ed -s testfile
H
,g/^[[:space:]]*/s///
,g/[[:space:]]*$/s///
,g/[[:space:]]/.d
wq
EOF
This should satisfy your needs:
cat filename | sed -n '/^\S*$/p'