To do this with sed I would switch delimiters. The backslash before the dollar sign in the sed command doesn't seem to be needed. On the other hand, I like superfluous double quotes around the sed argument. So my code would be:
But ksh can this with built-ins. This save launching a sed process:
Several other modern shells have borrowed this from ksh so it may work with your shell.
Im getting this error message when trying to substitute filepaths in a sed search and replace string
#!/usr/bin/ksh
ORACLE_SID=PH3
ORACLE_ADMIN=/data01/app/oracle/admin/$ORACLE_SID
DATAFILE_DIR=/asterisk/oradata/$ORACLE_SID
sed -e s/DBNAME/$ORACLE_SID/g < initPH2.ora | sed -e... (1 Reply)
Dear friends,
please give me the solution to the following query.
If a file contains multiple tags of same name, then how to get the required string between the tags, in which the string begins with "W/X"
i.e., file1.txt contains following text(please note that all the following tags are in... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I really need some help, I am using a very basic script to proess a text file. This script has been used many times but all of a sudden all on it's own it's stopped working.
The line in the script is:
sed 's/
//g' $ORGFILE > $NEWFILE
and the error is Sed: command garbled :s/
All... (3 Replies)
I have got a file job_tree.lst , which contains 1 line as below
$ cat job_tree.lst
ABC_D_EQ_XXXXX_YYYY_PRD_UX 05/08/2009 05:47 05/08/2009 05:50 IN 13412850/0
I want to get a child job string 3 characters offset from the parent job string (i.e. ABC_D_EQ_XXXXX_YYYY_PRD_UX 05/08/2009... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file1 as :
A=/home/user
B=/home/user1
C=/home/user2
D=/home/aacsms
E=/home/user1/temp
F=/home/user1/area1
and my script as:
a=`cat /home/aacsms7/file1 | grep -i e`
b=`user2`
sed 's/'$a'/"E=/home/'$b'/temp"/g' < file1 > file2
sed: command garbled:... (3 Replies)
for j in $(cat ${list_B})
do
to_replace_2=$(grep $j ${useralias}_2)
sed "s/^${j}/${to_replace_2}/p" ${entries} > ${entries}_2
mv ${entries}_2 ${entries}
done
Hi,
I've the above sed command running in a script. Its basically looping through a file and replacing its beginning of line... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
Suppose that I want to update the db.password entry in the below properties file,
db.username=admin
db.password=qhKkBno2U5GEq5k/dnmGPA== //I want this line to be replaced by: "db.password=abc/123/"
db.host=server
db.port=22
db.sid=database
However when... (2 Replies)
Hi,
First post for a noob so please go easy with me :)
I have a XML block that is originally like this:
<SETNAME>somecrap/THIS</SETNAME>
and I would like it be replaced with, in the original file:
<SETNAME>THIS</SETNAME>
I tried to use:
sed... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone,
Can anyone help me in question below?
I want to cron a job to add partition every month but get the error sed: command garbled: s/YYYYMM/ .
> echo $YYYYMON_NEW
201304
> echo $YYYYMON_OLD
201208
> echo $YYYY_MM_NEW
2013-05
This is my base script:
ALTER TABLE STS.ADMIN ADD... (1 Reply)