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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing specific characters using sed Post 302749593 by vnayak on Friday 28th of December 2012 05:03:06 PM
Old 12-28-2012
Apple Replacing specific characters using sed
Hi DGPickett,

Thanks for your prompt reply and for the code. However, when I try it does
not do anything to the file I have. So I created a test document (in Pico!) which contained the following data:

Code:
^server_name:\folder\folder name\

and the sed routine did not modify to \\server_name\server_name as I would have expected.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

vnayak
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
Well, it seems almost the norm for sed type stuff, but maybe you have not been to vi/ex/sed school!
Code:
sed '
  s/^\([a-zA-Z0-9_]\{3,33\}\):/\\\\\1\\\1/
 ' in_file1 >out_file1

If you have the gnu sed, you can use -i for update in place, but I would not: disk is cheap and mistakes are expensive, so make new files.
 

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rubibtex(1)							       teTeX							       rubibtex(1)

NAME

       rubibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX using Russian letters as item names

SYNOPSIS

       rubibtex BASENAME

DESCRIPTION

       rubibtex is used to run bibtex(1) on auxiliary files with Russian characters in item names (citation keys).  It is part of the T2 package.

       rubibtex  copies the auxiliary file to /tmp, uses sed(1) to convert Cyrillic character commands to their 8-bit ASCII equivalents; runs bib-
       tex(1) on the modified file; and finally moves the original auxiliary file back (overwriting the modified file).

       rubibtex assumes that the bibtex(1) database (bib) files are encoded with the KOI8-R encoding.

FILES

       basename.aux
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BUGS

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       It may be distributed under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.1 of this license or (at your option)  any
       later version.

SEE ALSO

       bibtex(1), sed(1), <ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/T2/README>.

AUTHOR

       Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>, Vladimir Volovich <TeX@vvv.vsu.ru>.

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