I have a school assignment, which says the following: Use the cat command, suitably modified, to show only the last paragraph in the textfile I have already checked on https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/308032/modifying-cat-command-to-number-paragraphs-and-display-last-paragraph-only, but it wasn’t very helpful. I am aware that you can do this without cat, but my school says I have to use the cat command. Thanks! 😉 Edit: I
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Use wc on all subdirectories to count the sum of lines
How can I count all lines of all files in all subdirectories with wc? man wc suggests wc -l –files0-from=-, but I do not know how to generate the list of all files as NUL-terminated names did not work. Answer You probably want this: If you only want the total number of lines, you could use
How to change a word in a file with linux shell script
I have a text file which have lots of lines I have a line in it which is: MyCar on how can I turn my car off? Answer You could use sed:
Splitting gzipped logfiles without storing the ungzipped splits on disk
I have a recurring task of splitting a set of large (about 1-2 GiB each) gzipped Apache logfiles into several parts (say chunks of 500K lines). The final files should be gzipped again to limit the disk usage. On Linux I would normally do: The resulting files files will be named xaa, xab, xac, etc So I do: The effect