[SOLVED] remove specified line from text

ted_chou12 · 02-12-2011, 12:15 AM

hi, I wish to move a specified line from a text file:

Quote:

ltoremove=5 #remove 5th line
i=1
while read line ; do
if [ $i == $ltoremove ] ; then
...
i=$(($i+1))
done < "txt.txt"

how should this actually be done? is there a shorter faster way to do this?
Thanks,
Ted

Nylex · 02-12-2011, 12:25 AM

You can do it with sed, e.g.

$ sed '5d' file

which says to delete line 5 from file. This will print the output to the terminal (rather than changing the file), so if you want to actually make the change to the file, you need to use the -i option:

$ sed -i '5d' file

This is a tutorial for sed.

ted_chou12 · 02-12-2011, 12:39 AM

so the code should look something like? (in bash script)

Quote:

sed -i '5d' file << file.txt

Thanks

Nylex · 02-12-2011, 12:47 AM

No, it should be

sed -i '5d' file.txt,

assuming that file.txt is the file you want to operate on.

ted_chou12 · 02-12-2011, 12:57 AM

thank you

ted_chou12 · 02-12-2011, 01:24 AM

Sorry again,im doing another app
How would I change a specific line completely?
I read the manual and -c is what I am looking for:
Change a line with 'c'

You can change the current line with a new line.
so line 5 in the text file would be complete replaced with a new string line.

#!/bin/sh
sed '
/WORD/ c\
Replace the current line with the line
'
where do you put the line number and the string to?
Thanks

Nylex · 02-12-2011, 01:42 AM

If you just want to replace line 5 with some other text you can do it like this:

file.txt:
1
2
3
4
5

$ sed '5c\stuff' file.txt
1
2
3
4
stuff

So, the line number goes before the 'c' and the text you want to replace that line with goes after the '\'.

Does that help?

ted_chou12 · 02-12-2011, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nylex

If you just want to replace line 5 with some other text you can do it like this:

file.txt:
1
2
3
4
5

$ sed '5c\stuff' file.txt
1
2
3
4
stuff

So, the line number goes before the 'c' and the text you want to replace that line with goes after the '\'.

Does that help?

thanks for your help!