i need to use sed to remove an entire line containing a pattern stored in a variable say $var1
this var1 will be a URL and will therefore contain slashes
any help would be greatly appreciated (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have the following script, but are not too sure about the syntax to complete the script.
In essence, the script must connect to a SFTP server at a client site with username and password located in a file on my server.
Then change to the appropriate directory.
Pull the data to the... (1 Reply)
I have the following:
HH:MM:SS
I want to use either % or # sign to remove :SS can somebody please provide me an example. I know how to do this in awk, but awk is too much
overhead for something this simple since I will be doing this in a loop a lot of times.
Thanks in advance to all... (2 Replies)
Hey Guys!
I have written a code which combines lots of files into one big file(.csv).
However, each of the original files had headers on the first line, and now that I've combined the files the headers are interspersed throughout the new combined data frame. For example, throughout the data... (21 Replies)
I have a binary (hex) file I need to parse to get some data which are encoded this way:
.* b4 . . . 01 12 .* af .* 83 L1 x1 x2 xL 84 L2 y1 y2 yL
By another words there is a stream of hexadecimal bytes (in my example separated by space for better readability). I need to get value stored in... (3 Replies)
I am on ubuntu 11.10 using bash scripts
I want to remove all files matching a string pattern and I am using the following code
find . -name "*$pattern*" -exec rm -f {} \;I have encountered a problem when $pattern is empty. In this case all my files in my current directory were deleted. This... (3 Replies)
Dear team,
I have a file curve.csv which is generated from oracle and each line has a comment associated with it, I want to get rid of this comment, can you please suggest me a command as how to do it
Eg,
cat curve.csv
/*data for today curve*/
/*data for text1*/ this is the header
/*data... (6 Replies)
Hi Everybody! First post! Totally noobie.
I'm using the terminal to read a poorly formatted book.
The text file contains, in the middle of paragraphs, hyphenation to split words that are supposed to be on multiple pages. It looks ve -- ry much like this.
I was hoping to use grep -v " -- "... (5 Replies)
im using the following code to grab data, but after the data in the range im specifying has been grabbed, i want to count how many instances of a particular pattern is found?
awk 'BEGIN{count=0} /parmlib.*RSP/,/seqfiles.*SSD/ {print; count++ } /103 error in ata file/ END { print count }'... (3 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)