Bash-remove-n-match: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
mNo edit summary |
mNo edit summary |
||
Line 38: | Line 38: | ||
EOT | EOT | ||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
[[Category:Bash]] |
Latest revision as of 18:25, 17 May 2023
Really unique problem and resolution using awk found in reddit. [1]
input text1.txt has: hi 1 hi 2 hi 3 hi 4 hi 5 hello I want to delete 4 lines containing 'hi' wanted output: hi 5 hello
Unique answer:
awk '!/hi/||++n>4'
Possible alternate that would still require some work:
count=4 awk -e ' /hi [[:digit:]]+/ && s++ < ENVIRON["count"] { next }; {print}; ' << EOT hi 1 hi 2 hi 3 hi 4 hi 5 hello EOT