Part of files to show in the bash.

pittopitto · 10-19-2005, 09:01 PM

Hello folks!

I don't know if I am in the right forum but I have a problem:

I have HUGE txt files, but I am interested in only a very little part of it and it is visualizable when I use this LONG command:

Code:

tail -3 name_file.txt | head -1 | head -c36 | tail -c7

but I would like to have a newline after it. The \n is not recognized in the bash.
How can I do it??

Thanks a lot

G

nilleso · 10-19-2005, 09:44 PM

use \\n

in bash `printf \n` prints "n"
`printf \\n` print a newline

cheers

nilleso · 10-19-2005, 09:48 PM

actually also have a look at cgrep

I'm a cgrep junkie

pittopitto · 10-19-2005, 10:12 PM

Thnks a lot!! It works!!

Ciao
G