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Old 08-08-2012
Shell or Perl (adding quote around path)
Hi Experts,

I have a line as below:
Code:
Text 351:2139 /opt/bo/boexi30/bobje/data/.bobj/registry/software/business objects/suite 12.0/olap intelligence/occa(o)

What I need is:
add a single quote around the path as below:
Code:
chown 351:2139 '/opt/bo/boexi30/bobje/data/.bobj/registry/software/business objects/suite 12.0/olap intelligence/occa(o)'

NOTE the space between the directory name: business objects/

Please help in this.
Last edited by apatil65; 08-09-2012 at 09:45 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 08-08-2012
Code:
$ perl -pe "s/([0-9] )/$1 \'/;s/$/\'/" input.txt
Text 351:213 '/opt/bo/boexi30/bobje/data/.bobj/registry/software/business objects/suite 12.0/olap intelligence/occa(o)'

---------- Post updated at 04:22 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:17 PM ----------

Code:
$ sed "s/\([0-9] \)/\1\'/;s/$/\'/" input.txt
Text 351:2139 '/opt/bo/boexi30/bobje/data/.bobj/registry/software/business objects/suite 12.0/olap intelligence/occa(o)'

why your output has chown ? instead of Text ?
# 3  
Old 08-08-2012
Sorry, its not chown, its text only.

---------- Post updated at 07:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:27 AM ----------

Thanks a lot.
You have taken numbers as a delimiter, But what if its:
Code:
Text 351:2139 /opt/bo/boexi30/bobje/data/.bobj/registry/software/business objects/suite 12.0/olap intelligence/occa(o)
mkdir /users/home/xbbjny5

I need single quote to whole path ?

Please help.....

---------- Post updated at 07:41 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:39 AM ----------

I got it.........!!! i did:
Code:
sed "s/\([0-9] \)/\1\'/;s/$/\'/" | sed "s/\([a-z] \)/\1\'/;s/$/\'/" abc.txt

---------- Post updated at 07:41 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:41 AM ----------

Thanks a lot Smilie

---------- Post updated at 07:44 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:41 AM ----------

Ohh no.... Smilie its wrong.....
please help...
Last edited by apatil65; 08-09-2012 at 09:46 AM.. Reason: Franklin: Please use code tags for data and code samples, zaxxon: code tags please; you already got a PM about it.
# 4  
Old 08-08-2012
Quote:
Ohh no.... its wrong.....
please help...
Please do not leave people guessing. Show a representative sample of input, desired output, attempts at a solution and specify what OS and versions being used.
Also start using code tags as you were asked by me 2 times and 1 time by Franklin52 already. Read your PMs.
# 5  
Old 08-09-2012
thanks

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