I need to find in a long list of files 5 lines like:
TEXT 1
Text 2
Text 3
Text 4
Text 5
and change it with
NEW TEXT 1
Text 2
Text 3
Text 4
NEW TEXT 5
I need to that the command will match any text for the 3 lines "Text 2/3/4" and keep them in the result.
Example 2:
Initial text:
TEXT 1
Pippo
Pluto
Paperino
Text 5
Result:
NEW TEXT 1 XXXX
Pippo
Pluto
Paperino
NEW Text 5 XXXX
The matching strings are not the first and last line of text.
I tried this command, but I don't know how to copy
the text in substitution text:
sed 'N;N;N;N;N;TEXT 1.*Text 5/NEW TEXT 1.*Text 5' filename
Thanks
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I have an excel table formatted(with header row included just for reference) like so:
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
5
2
2
5
2
2
-
2
I would like it formatted as text like so:
522 522 -2
Whenever I paste into word and convert to text it prints a space in between cells that are adjacent like this (underline as space):
5_2_2_ 5_2_2 _ -_2
I also tried pasting into other text editors and VScode without success.
I have several lines of this data and it's actually longer than the example so it's fairly cumbersome to manually delete the spaces. I'm wondering if there's a way to do this in excel/word.
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I have a simple 4 column table below:
Column A Column B Column C Column D
HEAD BODY PARAGRAPH IMAGE
Headline 1 Body Text 1 Paragraph 1 Image 1
Headline 2 Body Text 2 Paragraph 2 Image 2
Headline 3 Body Text 3 Paragraph 3 Image 3
What I want is to have, all the combinations I could get out of those columns, which I can illustrate as:
Column F Column G Column H Column I
HEAD BODY PARAGRAPH IMAGE
Headline 1 Body Text 1 Paragraph 1 Image 1
Headline 1 Body Text 1 Paragraph 1 Image 2
Headline 1 Body Text 1 Paragraph 1 Image 3
Headline 2 Body Text 2 Paragraph 2 Image 1
Headline 2 Body Text 2 Paragraph 2 Image 2
Headline 2 Body Text 2 Paragraph 2 Image 3
Headline 3 Body Text 3 Paragraph 3 Image 1
Headline 3 Body Text 3 Paragraph 3 Image 2
Headline 3 Body Text 3 Paragraph 3 Image 3
etc.
Basically I want the same answer as - Excel – Multiple Columns, Different Combinations but only for 4 columns and not 3 and no VBA please.
This is possible if we think about everything as a 4 digit number, where in the example given because there are 3 options in each column, we would want a base 3 number. I am writing it up for 3, but it should be clear how to extend it. A little below, I'll indicate how to handle different numbers of options in each column.
Suppose your data appears in A1:D4. I chose to leave column E blank so I could read things easily. F1 got the following formula:
=mid(base(row()-1,3,4),1,1)
which construes the row number - 1 (1-1=0, here) as a 4 digit base 3 number and takes the first digit.
G1 has the 2nd digit: =mid(base(row()-1,3,4),2,1)
H1 has =mid(base(row()-1,3,4),3,1)
and I1 has =mid(base(row()-1,3,4),4,1)
Then select F1:I1 and drag down through row 81 (which will have 2 2 2 2).
J1 gets =index(A$2:A$4,1+F1), which gets dragged right through M1.
Then drag J1:M1 down through row 81, and you have all the ones you want.
[later you can hide columns that were work columns or build their formulas into more inscrutable ones.]
Now suppose you want to be able to handle the case where there are different numbers of options in each category. Let's assume n is the largest number of options. I'll illustrate for n=3, but again it should be generalizable.
Assuming the possibilities sit in columns J:M, In N1, I placed =if(counta(J1:M1)=4,join(",",J1:M1),""), and dragged that all the way down to keep all the things that have one thing in each category present, but the phantom entries totally blank. In O1 I put =sort(N1:N,1,false) to send the blanks to the bottom, and then for the rows until the blanks, in P1 and dragged on down place =split(O1,",").
There are some possible generalizations here where when I used numbers but you could use counts of entries in your columns, but I think this should get you pretty far. There is also a limitation in this approach that you cannot have more than 36 of any choice.
Example: file one content in file is:
5
4
3
2
1
file two:
five
four
three
two
one
I want to read from two file inputs to new file by shell script:
new file:
5 five
4 four
3 three
2 two
1 one
Read man paste:
<bash> paste file1 file2 > newfile
<bash> cat newfile
5 five
4 four
3 three
2 two
1 one
With pr :
$ pr -mts file1 file2 > outputfile
5 five
4 four
3 three
2 two
1 one
I am trying to view a csv file. The csv files contains 2 types of lines:
lines with say 15 entries (numbers or strings) separated using commas. The number of entries can vary by file, but will be fixed for all such lines in a single file.
lines containing just one large string and no commas
I was trying to use column -s, -t for easy viewing on the command line. The problem is for lines containing just one entry, column thinks of it as a member of the first column. This string is big and causes the first column to be pretty big. I am looking for a way to tell column to not format rows which have just 1 entry and just print them as is. Is this achievable using column or some other utility? I tried using tr ',' '\t', but that didn't align things nicely like column.
Example file:
asdfasgjfsgadjfasdgjafsdgfkjasgdfkjasgkdasdfagjdghfa
this,is,just,a,siiiiiiiiimple,sample,file
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
wish_column_had_some_more_options
this,is,just,a,siiiiiiiiimple,sample,file
7,6,5,4,3,2,1
column output:
asdfasgjfsgadjfasdgjafsdgfkjasgdfkjasgkdasdfagjdghfa
this is just a siiiiiiiiimple sample file
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
wish_column_had_some_more_options
this is just a siiiiiiiiimple sample file
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
tr output:
asdfasgjfsgadjfasdgjafsdgfkjasgdfkjasgkdasdfagjdghfa
this is just a siiiiiiiiimple sample file
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
wish_column_had_some_more_options
this is just a siiiiiiiiimple sample file
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
I'm totally new to vim and I know what magical things vim can do. My requirement is to append a sequence of numbers at the end of each line and I saw somebody did that before in front of me. It's just that I don't have enough time to search for the correct command, so I think post a question here should be a faster way since I'm running out of time. Sorry for being a noob but seems this is the only way I can come up with.
So the sample file content is like
1 Afghanistan
2 Albania
3 Algeria
4 American
5 Andorra
6 Angola
7 Anguilla
8 Antarctica
a list of countries, imagine it is a database table and each column is separated with tab. I already figured out a way to append tab to the end of each line, but now the problem is to add a number at the end of each line as well, and the number for each line is exactly same with its id(the first number)
I somehow think that it should be done with visual mode, but please tell me a working solution if you know. Any help is highly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Hai Lang
Open your file in vim. Press ESC if not in escape mode.
write this :%s/$/\=line('.')/
This will append the sequence of numbers at the end of each line. To add numbers in the begining do
:%s/^/\=line('.')/
Input:
1 Afghanistan
2 Albania
3 Algeria
4 American
5 Andorra
6 Angola
7 Anguilla
8 Antarctica
Keystrokes:
:%s!^\(\d\+\).*!&\t\1<CR>
Output:
1 Afghanistan 1
2 Albania 2
3 Algeria 3
4 American 4
5 Andorra 5
6 Angola 6
7 Anguilla 7
8 Antarctica 8
Par : 20
Explanation:
: : start the command
% : on all lines
s : subsititute
! : start of pattern
^ : start of line
\( : start of group
\d : digit
\+ : one or more
\) : end of group
. : any character
* : any number of those
! : end of pattern
& : replace with - whole pattern
\t : a tab
\1 : first matched group
Carriage-return : execute
You could use recordings, which are enabled by q followed by a letter, which is the bookmark for that recording.
E.g.
In normal mode go to the first line and type:
qe
^
y<space>
$
p
q (to end the recording)
Now type #e to play the recording from letter e or 20#e, which repeats #e 20 times.
You can play around with the recordings like this. Maybe also record a j, in normal mode so it takes you to the next line.