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Old 08-12-2005
find and replace command in one line using one command
Hi,

I have a entry in the file as

::BSNL GUJARAT::India::OUT::NAT::REWEL::POSTPAID::919426199995

if u see this, i have the delimiter as :: ,

all i want is to replace "::" as ":"

so how to do that..

pls help

thanks
# 2  
Old 08-12-2005
Code:
echo "::BSNL GUJARAT::India::OUT::NAT::REWEL::POSTPAID::919426199995" | sed -e 's#::#:#g'

Vino
# 3  
Old 08-12-2005
Since you want to make this change ':' cannot be a legal character in the fields and so this will also work.

Code:
echo "::BSNL GUJARAT::India::OUT::NAT::REWEL::POSTPAID::919426199995" | tr -s ':'

Be aware that this change will damage your data if ':' is a legal value, for example in a date.
Last edited by reborg; 08-12-2005 at 04:44 PM..
# 4  
Old 09-04-2007
Bug use perl
by perl u can do the following

perl -pi -e 's/::/:/g' <filename>

This replaces ur '::' to ':' in the file directly.
# 5  
Old 08-20-2008
how to use sed command to find and replace a directory
i have a file.. which contains lot of paths ...

for eg.. file contains..

/usr/kk/rr/12345/1
/usr/kk/rr/12345/2
/usr/kk/rr/12345/3
/usr/kk/rr/12345/4
/usr/kk/rr/12345/5
/usr/kk/rr/12345/6
/usr/kk/rr/12345/7
/usr/kk/rr/12345/8

i want to replace /usr/kk/rr/12345/ with /usr/kk/yy/12555/

pls help
# 6  
Old 08-20-2008
$sed 's/::/:/g' source file>destination file
# 7  
Old 08-20-2008
actually u have replied for my ealier posts.. pls refer above, i am trying to rename a directory...

i can do with normal texts.. but i am not able to rename the directories pls help
 
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