Showing posts with label awk command. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awk command. Show all posts

How to use awk command in linux?

Here is the list of sed commands with examples

1. list content of file myfile
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ cat myfile
apple
orange
mango

banana
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pineapple

2. delete the first line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '1d' myfile
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
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pineapple

3. delete the third line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '3d' myfile
apple
orange

banana
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pineapple

4. delete the last line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '$d' myfile
apple
orange
mango

banana
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5. delete the 2nd and 4th line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '2,4d' myfile
apple
banana
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pineapple

6. delete except the 2nd and 4th line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '2,4!d' myfile
orange
mango

7. delete the 1st and last line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '1d;$d' myfile
orange
mango

banana
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8. delete all lines beginning with character 'a'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/^a/d' myfile
orange
mango

banana
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pineapple

9. delete all lines ending with character 'e'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/e$/d' myfile
mango

banana
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10. delete all lines ending with either 'e' or 'E'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/# [eE] $/d' myfile
mango

banana
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11. delete all the blank lines
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/^$/d' myfile
apple
orange
mango
banana
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pineapple

12. delete all lines which are entirely in UPPER CASE or CAPITAL LETTER
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/^# [A-Z]*$/d' myfile
apple
orange
mango
banana
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pineapple

13. delete all lines containing the pattern 'an'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/an/d' myfile
apple

GUAVA
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pineapple

14. delete all lines not containing the pattern 'an'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/an/!d' myfile
orange
mango
banana

15. delete all lines containing the pattern 'an' or 'le'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/an\|le/d' myfile

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16. delete lines starting from 1st until meeting the PATTERN 'banana'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '1,/banana/d' myfile
GUAVA
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pineapple

17. delete lines meeting the PATTERN 'banana' till the LAST line
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/banana/,$d' myfile
apple
orange
mango

18. delete the last line only if it contains the PATTERN 'apple'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '${/apple/d;}' myfile
apple
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish