I have an input flat file like this with many rows:
Apr 3 13:30:02 aag8-ca-acs01-en2 CisACS_01_PassedAuth p1n5ut5s 1 0 Message-Type=Authen OK,User-Name=joe7#it.test.com,NAS- IP-Address=4.196.63.55,Caller-ID=az-4d-31-89-92-90,EAP Type=17,EAP Type Name=LEAP,Response Time=0,
Apr 3 13:30:02 aag8-ca-acs01-en2 CisACS_01_PassedAuth p1n6ut5s 1 0 Message-Type=Authen OK,User-Name=bobe#jg.test.com,NAS-IP-Address=4.197.43.55,Caller-ID=az-4d-4q-x8-92-80,EAP Type=17,EAP Type Name=LEAP,Response Time=0,
Apr 3 13:30:02 abg8-ca-acs01-en2 CisACS_01_PassedAuth p1n4ut5s 1 0 Message-Type=Authen OK,User-Name=jerry777#it.test.com,NAS-IP-Address=7.196.63.55,Caller-ID=az-4d-n6-4e-y2-90,EAP Type=17,EAP Type Name=LEAP,Response Time=0,
Apr 3 13:30:02 aca8-ca-acs01-en2 CisACS_01_PassedAuth p1n4ut5s 1 0 Message-Type=Authen OK,User-Name=frc777o.#it.test.com,NAS-IP-Address=4.196.263.55,Caller-ID=a4-4e-31-99-92-90,EAP Type=17,EAP Type Name=LEAP,Response Time=0,
Apr 3 13:30:02 aag8-ca-acs01-en2 CisACS_01_PassedAuth p1n4ut5s 1 0 Message-Type=Authen OK,User-Name=frc77#xed.test.com,NAS-IP-Address=4.136.163.55,Caller-ID=az-4d-4w-b5-s2-90,EAP Type=17,EAP Type Name=LEAP,Response Time=0,
I'm trying to grep the email addresses from input file to see if they already exist in the master file.
Master flat file looks like this:
a44e31999290;frc777o.#it.test.com;20150403
az4d4qx89280;bobe#jg.test.com;20150403
0dbgd0fed04t;rrfuf#us.test.com;20150403
28cbe9191d53;rttuu4en#us.test.com;20150403
az4d4wb5s290;frc77#xed.test.com;20150403
d89695174805;ccis6n#cn.test.com;20150403
If the email doesn't exist in master I want a simple count.
So using the examples I hope to see: count=3, because bobe#jg.test.com and frc77#xed.test.com already exist in master but the others don't.
I tried various combinations of grep, example below from last tests but it is not working.. I'm using grep within a perl script to first capture emails and then count them but all I really need is the count of emails from input file that don't exist in master.
grep -o -P '(?<=User-Name=\).*(?=,NAS-IP-)' $infile $mstr > $new_emails;
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.
I would use this approach in awk:
$ awk 'FNR==NR {FS=";"; a[$2]; next}
{FS="[,=]"; if ($4 in a) c++}
END{print c}' master file
3
This works by setting different field separators and storing / matching the emails. Then, printing the final sum.
For master file we use ; and get the 2nd field:
$ awk -F";" '{print $2}' master
frc777o.#it.test.com
bobe#jg.test.com
rrfuf#us.test.com
rttuu4en#us.test.com
frc77#xed.test.com
ccis6n#cn.test.com
For file file (the one with all the info) we use either , or = and get the 4th field:
$ awk -F[,=] '{print $4}' file
joe7#it.test.com
bobe#jg.test.com
jerry777#it.test.com
frc777o.#it.test.com
frc77#xed.test.com
Think the below does what you want as a one liner with diff and perl:
diff <( perl -F';' -anE 'say #F[1]' master | sort -u ) <( perl -pe 'm/User-Name=([^,]+),/; $_ = "$1\n"' data | sort -u ) | grep '^>' | perl -pe 's/> //;'
The diff <( command_a |sort -u ) <( command_b |sort -u) | grep '>' lets you handle the set difference of the command output.
perl -F';' -anE 'say #F[1]' just splits each line of the file on ';' and prints the second field on its own line.
perl -pe 'm/User-Name=([^,]+),/; $_ = "$1\n"' gets the specific field you wanted ignoring the surrounding key= and prints on a new line implicitly.
I have the following query on the command line, and I would like the output values to show up on single line so I can feed it to my monitoring system, I'm wondering how I can accomplish this via either perl , sed ,awk
My command line
activemq:query -QQueue=PCA --view QueueSize,ConsumerCount,EnqueueCount,DequeueCount
output
ConsumerCount = 1
QueueSize = 0
DequeueCount = 148248
EnqueueCount = 148248
Desierd output
1 0 148248 148248
Thank you
Using command line switches is fun:
perl -anwe'print "$F[2] "'
-a autosplits the line on whitespace, and also thereby strips newline. We add a space and print the last field.
Pipe it to awk:
... | awk -F= '{printf "%s",$2}'
Output, as desired:
1 0 148248 148248
Here is another one. Keeping pushing values in an array, and print the entire array at the end. This gives you a new-line at the end.
However, if your file is very huge, this will not be ideal. In that case, go with TLP's crafty one-liner.
... | perl -lane 'push #a, $F[2] }{ print "#a"'
Perl version:
... | perl -l40 -ane 'print $F[2]'
or (Perl 5.8.8)
... | perl -ne 'chomp; split /=/; print $_[1]'
Note: Since Perl 5.12.0, "split() no longer modifies #_ when called in scalar or void context", so the second version will not work for Perl >= 5.12.0, but the first version should still works.
Testing:
$ cat t00.txt
ConsumerCount = 1
QueueSize = 0
DequeueCount = 148248
EnqueueCount = 148248
$ cat t00.txt | perl -ne 'chomp; split /=/; print $_[1]'
1 0 148248 148248
$ cat t00.txt | perl -l40 -ane 'print $F[2]'
1 0 148248 148248
I'm using tcsh; I want to run some snippet from sh on the command line, which itself contains a perl snippet, which contains some strings that are to be printed.
This results in three levels of parentheses, but there are only two available — " and '.
Is there a way around?
tcsh# sh -c 'while (true); do mtr --order "SRL BGAWV M" …; hping --icmp-ts --count 12 … | perl -ne '... if (/tsrtt=(\d+)/) {print $0,"\t"…}' ; done'
To include a single quote inside of single quotes, use '\''. e.g.
perl -ne'... print $0, "\t" ...'
becomes
sh -c '... | perl -ne'\''... print $0, "\t" ...'\'''
In this particular case, an alternative is to replace
perl -ne'... print $0, "\t" ...'
with
perl -ne"... print \$0, qq{\t} ..."
so you'd get
sh -c '... | perl -ne"... print \$0, qq{\t} ..."'
I'd just write the whole thing in Perl
perl -e'
while (1) {
system("mtr", "--order", "SRL BGAWV M");
open(my $pipe, "-|", "hping", "--icmp-ts", "--count", "12");
while (<$pipe>) {
...
}
}
'
Use q/../ for single quotes and qq/.../ for double quotes within your Perl code.
For instance, print $0, qq/\t/
Another solution is doing a big and long echo, with a few arguments, all escaped with ', where the actual literal ' is gathered from the result of executing printf "'", and piping this whole echo to sh, instead of passing the string as an argument directly to sh.
This actually seems somewhat easier, because it doesn't involve escaping the whole perl snippet, basically, but only escaping the two ' that are used for perl -ne.
tcsh# echo 'while (true); do mtr --order "SRL BGAWV M" …; hping --icmp-ts --count 12 … | perl -ne' `printf "'"` '... if (/tsrtt=(\d+)/) {print $0,"\t"…}' `printf "'"` '; done' | sh
Say I have a file like so:
+jaklfjdskalfjkdsaj
fkldsjafkljdkaljfsd
-jslakflkdsalfkdls;
+sdjafkdjsakfjdskal
I only want to find and count the amount of times during this file a line that starts with - is immediately followed by a line that starts with +.
Rules:
No external scripts
Must be done from within a bash script
Must be inline
I could figure out how to do this in a Python script, for instance, but I've never had to do something this extensive in Bash.
Could anyone help me out? I figure it'll end up being grep, perl, or maybe a talented sed line -- but these are things I'm still learning.
Thank you all!
grep -A1 "^-" $file | grep "^+" | wc -l
The first grep finds all of the lines starting with -, and the -A1 causes it to also output the line after the match too.
We then grep that output for any lines starting with +. Logically:
We know the output of the first grep is only the -XXX lines and the following lines
We know that a +xxx line cannot also be a -xxx line
Therefore, any +xxx lines must be following lines, and should be counted, which we do with wc -l
Easy in Perl:
perl -lne '$c++ if $p and /^\+/; $p = /^-/ }{ print $c' FILE
awk one-liner:
awk -v FS='' '{x=x sprintf("%s", $1)}END{print gsub(/-\+/,"",x)}' file
e.g.
kent$ cat file
+jaklfjdskalfjkdsaj
fkldsjafkljdkaljfsd
-jslakflkdsalfkdls;
+sdjafkdjsakfjdskal
-
-
-
+
-
+
foo
+
kent$ awk -v FS='' '{x=x sprintf("%s", $1)}END{print gsub(/-\+/,"",x)}' file
3
Another Perl example. Not as terse as choroba's, but more transparent in how it works:
perl -e'while (<>) { $last = $cur; $cur = $_; print $last, $cur if substr($last, 0, 1) eq "-" && substr($cur, 0, 1) eq "+" }' < infile
Output:
-jslakflkdsalfkdls;
+sdjafkdjsakfjdskal
Pure bash:
unset c p
while read line ; do
[[ $line == +* && $p == 0 ]] && (( c++ ))
[[ $line == -* ]]
p=$?
done < FILE
echo $c
I have a ~23000 line SQL dump containing several databases worth of data. I need to extract a certain section of this file (i.e. the data for a single database) and place it in a new file. I know both the start and end line numbers of the data that I want.
Does anyone know a Unix command (or series of commands) to extract all lines from a file between say line 16224 and 16482 and then redirect them into a new file?
sed -n '16224,16482p;16483q' filename > newfile
From the sed manual:
p -
Print out the pattern space (to the standard output). This command is usually only used in conjunction with the -n command-line option.
n -
If auto-print is not disabled, print the pattern space, then, regardless, replace the pattern space with the next line of input. If
there is no more input then sed exits without processing any more
commands.
q -
Exit sed without processing any more commands or input.
Note that the current pattern space is printed if auto-print is not disabled with the -n option.
and
Addresses in a sed script can be in any of the following forms:
number
Specifying a line number will match only that line in the input.
An address range can be specified by specifying two addresses
separated by a comma (,). An address range matches lines starting from
where the first address matches, and continues until the second
address matches (inclusively).
sed -n '16224,16482 p' orig-data-file > new-file
Where 16224,16482 are the start line number and end line number, inclusive. This is 1-indexed. -n suppresses echoing the input as output, which you clearly don't want; the numbers indicate the range of lines to make the following command operate on; the command p prints out the relevant lines.
Quite simple using head/tail:
head -16482 in.sql | tail -258 > out.sql
using sed:
sed -n '16224,16482p' in.sql > out.sql
using awk:
awk 'NR>=16224&&NR<=16482' in.sql > out.sql
You could use 'vi' and then the following command:
:16224,16482w!/tmp/some-file
Alternatively:
cat file | head -n 16482 | tail -n 258
EDIT:- Just to add explanation, you use head -n 16482 to display first 16482 lines then use tail -n 258 to get last 258 lines out of the first output.
There is another approach with awk:
awk 'NR==16224, NR==16482' file
If the file is huge, it can be good to exit after reading the last desired line. This way, it won't read the following lines unnecessarily:
awk 'NR==16224, NR==16482-1; NR==16482 {print; exit}' file
awk 'NR==16224, NR==16482; NR==16482 {exit}' file
perl -ne 'print if 16224..16482' file.txt > new_file.txt
People trying to wrap their heads around computing an interval for the head | tail combo are overthinking it.
Here's how you get the "16224 -- 16482" range without computing anything:
cat file | head -n +16482 | tail -n +16224
Explanation:
The + instructs the head/tail command to "go up to / start from" (respectively) the specified line number as counted from the beginning of the file.
Similarly, a - instructs them to "go up to / start from" (respectively) the specified line number as counted from the end of the file
The solution shown above simply uses head first, to 'keep everything up to the top number', and then tail second, to 'keep everything from the bottom number upwards', thus defining our range of interest (with no need to compute an interval).
Standing on the shoulders of boxxar, I like this:
sed -n '<first line>,$p;<last line>q' input
e.g.
sed -n '16224,$p;16482q' input
The $ means "last line", so the first command makes sed print all lines starting with line 16224 and the second command makes sed quit after printing line 16428. (Adding 1 for the q-range in boxxar's solution does not seem to be necessary.)
I like this variant because I don't need to specify the ending line number twice. And I measured that using $ does not have detrimental effects on performance.
# print section of file based on line numbers
sed -n '16224 ,16482p' # method 1
sed '16224,16482!d' # method 2
cat dump.txt | head -16224 | tail -258
should do the trick. The downside of this approach is that you need to do the arithmetic to determine the argument for tail and to account for whether you want the 'between' to include the ending line or not.
sed -n '16224,16482p' < dump.sql
Quick and dirty:
head -16428 < file.in | tail -259 > file.out
Probably not the best way to do it but it should work.
BTW: 259 = 16482-16224+1.
I wrote a Haskell program called splitter that does exactly this: have a read through my release blog post.
You can use the program as follows:
$ cat somefile | splitter 16224-16482
And that is all that there is to it. You will need Haskell to install it. Just:
$ cabal install splitter
And you are done. I hope that you find this program useful.
Even we can do this to check at command line:
cat filename|sed 'n1,n2!d' > abc.txt
For Example:
cat foo.pl|sed '100,200!d' > abc.txt
Using ruby:
ruby -ne 'puts "#{$.}: #{$_}" if $. >= 32613500 && $. <= 32614500' < GND.rdf > GND.extract.rdf
I wanted to do the same thing from a script using a variable and achieved it by putting quotes around the $variable to separate the variable name from the p:
sed -n "$first","$count"p imagelist.txt >"$imageblock"
I wanted to split a list into separate folders and found the initial question and answer a useful step. (split command not an option on the old os I have to port code to).
Just benchmarking 3 solutions given above, that works to me:
awk
sed
"head+tail"
Credits on the 3 solutions goes to:
#boxxar
#avandeursen
#wds
#manveru
#sibaz
#SOFe
#fedorqui 'SO stop harming'
#Robin A. Meade
I'm using a huge file I find in my server:
# wc fo2debug.1.log
10421186 19448208 38795491134 fo2debug.1.log
38 Gb in 10.4 million lines.
And yes, I have a logrotate problem. : ))
Make your bets!
Getting 256 lines from the beginning of the file.
# time sed -n '1001,1256p;1256q' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
256
real 0m0,003s
user 0m0,000s
sys 0m0,004s
# time head -1256 fo2debug.1.log | tail -n +1001 | wc -l
256
real 0m0,003s
user 0m0,006s
sys 0m0,000s
# time awk 'NR==1001, NR==1256; NR==1256 {exit}' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
256
real 0m0,002s
user 0m0,004s
sys 0m0,000s
Awk won. Technical tie in second place between sed and "head+tail".
Getting 256 lines at the end of the first third of the file.
# time sed -n '3473001,3473256p;3473256q' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
256
real 0m0,265s
user 0m0,242s
sys 0m0,024s
# time head -3473256 fo2debug.1.log | tail -n +3473001 | wc -l
256
real 0m0,308s
user 0m0,313s
sys 0m0,145s
# time awk 'NR==3473001, NR==3473256; NR==3473256 {exit}' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
256
real 0m0,393s
user 0m0,326s
sys 0m0,068s
Sed won. Followed by "head+tail" and, finally, awk.
Getting 256 lines at the end of the second third of the file.
# time sed -n '6947001,6947256p;6947256q' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
A256
real 0m0,525s
user 0m0,462s
sys 0m0,064s
# time head -6947256 fo2debug.1.log | tail -n +6947001 | wc -l
256
real 0m0,615s
user 0m0,488s
sys 0m0,423s
# time awk 'NR==6947001, NR==6947256; NR==6947256 {exit}' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
256
real 0m0,779s
user 0m0,650s
sys 0m0,130s
Same results.
Sed won. Followed by "head+tail" and, finally, awk.
Getting 256 lines near the end of the file.
# time sed -n '10420001,10420256p;10420256q' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
256
real 1m50,017s
user 0m12,735s
sys 0m22,926s
# time head -10420256 fo2debug.1.log | tail -n +10420001 | wc -l
256
real 1m48,269s
user 0m42,404s
sys 0m51,015s
# time awk 'NR==10420001, NR==10420256; NR==10420256 {exit}' fo2debug.1.log | wc -l
256
real 1m49,106s
user 0m12,322s
sys 0m18,576s
And suddenly, a twist!
"Head+tail" won. Followed by awk and, finally, sed.
(some hours later...)
Sorry guys!
My analysis above ends up being an example of a basic flaw in doing an analysis.
The flaw is not knowing in depth the resources used for the analysis.
In this case, I used a log file to analyze the performance of a search for a certain number of lines within it.
Using 3 different techniques, searches were made at different points in the file, comparing the performance of the techniques at each point and checking whether the results varied depending on the point in the file where the search was made.
My mistake was to assume that there was a certain homogeneity of content in the log file.
The reality is that long lines appear more frequently at the end of the file.
Thus, the apparent conclusion that longer searches (closer to the end of the file) are better with a given technique, may be biased. In fact, this technique may be better when dealing with longer lines. What remains to be confirmed.
I was about to post the head/tail trick, but actually I'd probably just fire up emacs. ;-)
esc-x goto-line ret 16224
mark (ctrl-space)
esc-x goto-line ret 16482
esc-w
open the new output file, ctl-y
save
Let's me see what's happening.
I would use:
awk 'FNR >= 16224 && FNR <= 16482' my_file > extracted.txt
FNR contains the record (line) number of the line being read from the file.
Using ed:
ed -s infile <<<'16224,16482p'
-s suppresses diagnostic output; the actual commands are in a here-string. Specifically, 16224,16482p runs the p (print) command on the desired line address range.
I wrote a small bash script that you can run from your command line, so long as you update your PATH to include its directory (or you can place it in a directory that is already contained in the PATH).
Usage: $ pinch filename start-line end-line
#!/bin/bash
# Display line number ranges of a file to the terminal.
# Usage: $ pinch filename start-line end-line
# By Evan J. Coon
FILENAME=$1
START=$2
END=$3
ERROR="[PINCH ERROR]"
# Check that the number of arguments is 3
if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
echo "$ERROR Need three arguments: Filename Start-line End-line"
exit 1
fi
# Check that the file exists.
if [ ! -f "$FILENAME" ]; then
echo -e "$ERROR File does not exist. \n\t$FILENAME"
exit 1
fi
# Check that start-line is not greater than end-line
if [ "$START" -gt "$END" ]; then
echo -e "$ERROR Start line is greater than End line."
exit 1
fi
# Check that start-line is positive.
if [ "$START" -lt 0 ]; then
echo -e "$ERROR Start line is less than 0."
exit 1
fi
# Check that end-line is positive.
if [ "$END" -lt 0 ]; then
echo -e "$ERROR End line is less than 0."
exit 1
fi
NUMOFLINES=$(wc -l < "$FILENAME")
# Check that end-line is not greater than the number of lines in the file.
if [ "$END" -gt "$NUMOFLINES" ]; then
echo -e "$ERROR End line is greater than number of lines in file."
exit 1
fi
# The distance from the end of the file to end-line
ENDDIFF=$(( NUMOFLINES - END ))
# For larger files, this will run more quickly. If the distance from the
# end of the file to the end-line is less than the distance from the
# start of the file to the start-line, then start pinching from the
# bottom as opposed to the top.
if [ "$START" -lt "$ENDDIFF" ]; then
< "$FILENAME" head -n $END | tail -n +$START
else
< "$FILENAME" tail -n +$START | head -n $(( END-START+1 ))
fi
# Success
exit 0
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -ne '16224,16482w newfile' -e '16482q' file
or taking advantage of bash:
sed -n $'16224,16482w newfile\n16482q' file
Since we are talking about extracting lines of text from a text file, I will give an special case where you want to extract all lines that match a certain pattern.
myfile content:
=====================
line1 not needed
line2 also discarded
[Data]
first data line
second data line
=====================
sed -n '/Data/,$p' myfile
Will print the [Data] line and the remaining. If you want the text from line1 to the pattern, you type: sed -n '1,/Data/p' myfile. Furthermore, if you know two pattern (better be unique in your text), both the beginning and end line of the range can be specified with matches.
sed -n '/BEGIN_MARK/,/END_MARK/p' myfile
I've compiled some of the highest rated solutions for sed, perl, head+tail, plus my own code for awk, and focusing on performance via the pipe, while using LC_ALL=C to ensure all candidates at their fastest possible, allocating 2-second sleep gap in between.
The gaps are somewhat noticeable :
abs time awk/app speed ratio
----------------------------------
0.0672 sec : 1.00x mawk-2
0.0839 sec : 1.25x gnu-sed
0.1289 sec : 1.92x perl
0.2151 sec : 3.20x gnu-head+tail
Haven't had chance to test python or BSD variants of those utilities.
(fg && fg && fg && fg) 2>/dev/null;
echo;
( time ( pvE0 < "${m3t}"
| LC_ALL=C mawk2 '
BEGIN {
_=10420001-(\
__=10420256)^(FS="^$")
} _<NR {
print
if(__==NR) { exit }
}' ) | pvE9) | tee >(xxh128sum >&2) | LC_ALL=C gwc -lcm | lgp3 ;
sleep 2;
(fg && fg && fg && fg) 2>/dev/null
echo;
( time ( pvE0 < "${m3t}"
| LC_ALL=C gsed -n '10420001,10420256p;10420256q'
) | pvE9 ) | tee >(xxh128sum >&2) | LC_ALL=C gwc -lcm | lgp3 ;
sleep 2; (fg && fg && fg && fg) 2>/dev/null
echo
( time ( pvE0 < "${m3t}"
| LC_ALL=C perl -ne 'print if 10420001..10420256'
) | pvE9 ) | tee >(xxh128sum >&2) | LC_ALL=C gwc -lcm | lgp3 ;
sleep 2; (fg && fg && fg && fg) 2>/dev/null
echo
( time ( pvE0 < "${m3t}"
| LC_ALL=C ghead -n +10420256
| LC_ALL=C gtail -n +10420001
) | pvE9 ) | tee >(xxh128sum >&2) | LC_ALL=C gwc -lcm | lgp3 ;
in0: 1.51GiB 0:00:00 [2.31GiB/s] [2.31GiB/s] [============> ] 81%
out9: 42.5KiB 0:00:00 [64.9KiB/s] [64.9KiB/s] [ <=> ]
( pvE 0.1 in0 < "${m3t}" | LC_ALL=C mawk2 ; )
0.43s user 0.36s system 117% cpu 0.672 total
256 43487 43487
54313365c2e66a48dc1dc33595716cc8 stdin
out9: 42.5KiB 0:00:00 [51.7KiB/s] [51.7KiB/s] [ <=> ]
in0: 1.51GiB 0:00:00 [1.84GiB/s] [1.84GiB/s] [==========> ] 81%
( pvE 0.1 in0 < "${m3t}" |LC_ALL=C gsed -n '10420001,10420256p;10420256q'; )
0.68s user 0.34s system 121% cpu 0.839 total
256 43487 43487
54313365c2e66a48dc1dc33595716cc8 stdin
in0: 1.85GiB 0:00:01 [1.46GiB/s] [1.46GiB/s] [=============>] 100%
out9: 42.5KiB 0:00:01 [33.5KiB/s] [33.5KiB/s] [ <=> ]
( pvE 0.1 in0 < "${m3t}" | LC_ALL=C perl -ne 'print if 10420001..10420256'; )
1.10s user 0.44s system 119% cpu 1.289 total
256 43487 43487
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( pvE 0.1 in0 < "${m3t}"
| LC_ALL=C ghead -n +10420256
| LC_ALL=C gtail -n ; )
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The -n in the accept answers work. Here's another way in case you're inclined.
cat $filename | sed "${linenum}p;d";
This does the following:
pipe in the contents of a file (or feed in the text however you want).
sed selects the given line, prints it
d is required to delete lines, otherwise sed will assume all lines will eventually be printed. i.e., without the d, you will get all lines printed by the selected line printed twice because you have the ${linenum}p part asking for it to be printed. I'm pretty sure the -n is basically doing the same thing as the d here.
I was looking for an answer to this but I had to end up writing my own code which worked. None of the answers above were satisfactory.
Consider you have very large file and have certain line numbers that you want to print out but the numbers are not in order. You can do the following:
My relatively large file
for letter in {a..k} ; do echo $letter; done | cat -n > myfile.txt
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 d
5 e
6 f
7 g
8 h
9 i
10 j
11 k
Specific line numbers I want:
shuf -i 1-11 -n 4 > line_numbers_I_want.txt
10
11
4
9
To print these line numbers, do the following.
awk '{system("head myfile.txt -n " $0 " | tail -n 1")}' line_numbers_I_want.txt
What the above does is to head the n line then take the last line using tail
If you want your line numbers in order, sort ( is -n numeric sort) first then get the lines.
cat line_numbers_I_want.txt | sort -n | awk '{system("head myfile.txt -n " $0 " | tail -n 1")}'
4 d
9 i
10 j
11 k
Maybe, you would be so kind to give this humble script a chance ;-)
#!/usr/bin/bash
# Usage:
# body n m|-m
from=$1
to=$2
if [ $to -gt 0 ]; then
# count $from the begin of the file $to selected line
awk "NR >= $from && NR <= $to {print}"
else
# count $from the begin of the file skipping tailing $to lines
awk '
BEGIN {lines=0; from='$from'; to='$to'}
{++lines}
NR >= $from {line[lines]=$0}
END {for (i = from; i < lines + to + 1; i++) {
print line[i]
}
}'
fi
Outputs:
$ seq 20 | ./body.sh 5 15
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
$ seq 20 | ./body.sh 5 -5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
You could use sed command in your case and is pretty fast.
As mentioned lets assume the range is: between 16224 and 16482 lines
#get the lines from 16224 to 16482 and prints the values into filename.txt file
sed -n '16224 ,16482p' file.txt > filename.txt
#Additional Info to showcase other possible scenarios:
#get the 16224 th line and writes the value to filename.txt
sed -n '16224p' file.txt > filename.txt
#get the 16224 and 16300 line values only and write to filename.txt.
sed -n '16224p;16300p;' file.txt > filename.txt