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Extracting table of contents from PDFs
I have a reasonably large personal library with books in various formats. I have tried to organize their metadata, including a text field containing the tables of contents. At the moment I am using ...
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Aligning space separated words in columns
There is a text file, file.txt. In there is:
abc 01245
def-1 32154
ghi-3 55432
jkl 44121
mno-4 23147
pqr 897044
....
How to format this to an output like this:
abc 01245
def-1 32154
ghi-3 55432
jkl ...
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Reformat text to exact width [duplicate]
On Ubuntu, how to reformat text to fit width (except final line), adding spaces where necessary? The closest I can get is with fmt --width=64, but this does not add the spaces between words.
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Find and replace in CudaText editor
So I have dump from U-boot and I need to replace specific string in CudaText editor.
Here is mine text
e101b1e0: 30ef27d8 e792f415 9beea618 5c601de4 .'.0..........`\
e101b1f0: aeaf9d25 e1dd63e9 ...
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How can I reformat blocks of data until the end of the file is reached?
I have a file that looks like this:
# Time-averaged data for fix avetimeall
# TimeStep Number-of-rows
# Row c_gyrationchunkall
1000 3
1 2.09024e-14
2 4.88628
3 5.69321
2000 3
1 2.10518e-14
2 8.33702
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Add two delimiters after every sixth comma
I'm trying to expand on this question but can't figure out this issue:
Let's say I've got a file roll.txt:
echo "'123456789','987651234','129873645','213456789','987612345','543216789','432156789'...
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How to group matching data from first two column [closed]
I would like to group data from first two fields as per below
Sample Data:
CHECK|checkadm|block1
CHECK|checkadm|block2
CHECK|checkadm|block3
CHECK|checkadm|block4
TEST|testadm|block1
TEST|testadm|...
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How to echo a string inside a category in a ini file with quotes
I have an ini file like for example
[Admin Prefixes]
# Here you can add custom prefixes to specific players or flags that are shown when using $admin_prefix$.
# Syntax: "type" "info&...
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convert xterm256 to ansi
I have a program that will only accept ANSI color input but I have reason to feed it the output of a program that outputs xterm256 color codes. Is there a converter? I realize of course that color ...
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text processing rows to columns for a block of lines Awk
i have input file like below .i need to reformat the text as o/p mentioned.
I using the awk got from this forum but it is displayed based on the List A columns count.
Please help
awk 'BEGIN{ max=0 }
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Splitting columns in TSV into CSV
I have a TSV file with two columns in the format of
id1\tcol1,col2,col3
id2\tcol4,col5
I want to split the second column in combination with the first column to output
id1,col1
id1,col2
id1,col3
id2,...
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Indent lines of text following given rule
I was wondering how indenting recursively more and more lines of poetry following a custom rule. For instance
Let say we have:
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose ...
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Split the line into next line after a matching pattern
In the input file shown below, I am trying to find the string job_type and move the it to the next line if it matches job_type.
I tried this, but it is not working:
sed "s/[A-Z][a-z]*job_type:/\...
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awk replace column value with increment values if length equals
I have non-standard data, which I'd like to standardise
file:
d101 11001
e101 9665
f101 9663
d102 11002
e102 11003
f102 11004
g102 11005
desired output:
d101 11001
e101 12001
f101 12002
d102 11002
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If column has multiple values, copy line with each value separately
I have a file with the following format, each column separated by tabs:
C1 C2 C3
a b,c d
e f,g,h i
j k l
...
Now I need to have the number of lines according to the number of values ...
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