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Assigning system command's output to variable

I want to run the system command in an awk script and get its output stored in a variable. I've …

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Split one file into multiple files based on delimiter

I have one file with -| as delimiter after each section...need to create separate files for each section using …

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Using awk to remove the Byte-order mark

How would an awk script (presumably a one-liner) for removing a BOM look like? Specification: print every line after the …

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How to add text at the end of each line in unix

I am doing certain text processing operations and finally able to get a file something like this india sudan japan …

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What are the differences between Perl, Python, AWK and sed?

just want to know what are the main differences among them? and the power of each language (where it's better …

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How to save the output of this awk command to file?

I wanna save this command to another text: awk '{print $2}' it extract's from text. now i wanna save …

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Remove all text before colon

I have a file containing a certain number of lines. Each line looks like this: TF_list_to_test10004/Nus_…

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Printing only the first field in a string

I have a date as 12/12/2013 14:32 I want to convert it into only 12/12/2013. The string can be 1/1/2013 12:32 or 1/10/2013 23:41 I need only …

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How to get the first column of every line from a CSV file?

How do get the first column of every line in an input CSV file and output to a new file? …

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Is there a Unix utility to prepend timestamps to stdin?

I ended up writing a quick little script for this in Python, but I was wondering if there was a …

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