As a DBA, many a times we need to know what files and directories are consuming more space on our unix file system.

In this article, i will try to share to share the commands that are used to achieve … Read the rest

There are multiple ways to get the Nth line of a file but below are the most used commands.

1. Sed

Let's consider the below input file

$ cat file1

mango
apple
grapes
banana
strawberry
papaya
orange
cherry

There are several ways to read a file in loop, here are few of them with examples

consider my input file is as below

FileName: file1

File Content:

A B C
D E F
G H I
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for example, i have a text file like below

test1 test2
test3 test4
test5 test6

i want my text file to look like as below

test1,test2
test3,test4
test5,test6

use below sed function to achieve the result.

sed -e 's/\s+/,/g' old … Read the rest