And a PHP example, multiple matching lines will be displayed: <?php $file=”somefile.txt”; $searchfor=”name”; // the following line prevents the browser from parsing this as HTML. header(‘Content-Type: text/plain’); // get the file contents, assuming the file to be readable (and exist) $contents = file_get_contents($file); // escape special characters in the query $pattern = preg_quote($searchfor, “https://stackoverflow.com/”); // … Read more
In-place truncation To truncate the file in-place with sed, you can do the following: sed -i ‘50001,$ d’ filename -i means in place. d means delete. 50001,$ means the lines from 50001 to the end. You can make a backup of the file by adding an extension argument to -i, for example, .backup or .bak: … Read more
If the file should not be directly available via URL, you should put it in App_Data. For reading it, just use: var fileContents = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath(@”~/App_Data/file.txt”));
For very large files I’d do something like this string tempFile = Path.GetTempFileName(); using(var sr = new StreamReader(“file.txt”)) using(var sw = new StreamWriter(tempFile)) { string line; while((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null) { if(line != “removeme”) sw.WriteLine(line); } } File.Delete(“file.txt”); File.Move(tempFile, “file.txt”); Update I originally wrote this back in 2009 and I thought it might be … Read more
Follow these steps with Notepad++ 1- Copy the original text 2- In Notepad++, open new file, change Encoding -> pick an encoding you think the original text follows. Try as well the encoding “ANSI” as sometimes Unicode files are read as ANSI by certain programs 3- Paste 4- Then to convert to Unicode by going … Read more
But what i’ll love is to refer to the variable direclty, as i declared it in the python script.. Assuming you’re happy to change your syntax slightly, just use python and import the “config” module. # myconfig.py: var_a=”home” var_b = ‘car’ var_c = 15.5 Then do from myconfig import * And you can reference them … Read more
It should be as simple as… LOAD DATA INFILE ‘/tmp/mydata.txt’ INTO TABLE PerformanceReport; By default LOAD DATA INFILE uses tab delimited, one row per line, so should take it in just fine.
You probably want this: find . -type f -print0 | wc -l –files0-from=- If you only want the total number of lines, you could use find . -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l
Try this command: sudo gedit helloWorld.txt it, will open up a text editor to edit your file. OR sudo nano helloWorld.txt Here, you can edit your file in the terminal window.
Here’s an update for PointZeroTwo’s answer in Swift 3.0, with one quick note – in the playground testing using a simple filepath works, but in my actual app I needed to build the URL using .documentDirectory (or which ever directory you chose to use for reading and writing – make sure it’s consistent throughout your … Read more