01-12-2002
Changing text with sed?
Hi everyone,
Having trouble with sed. I searched the board and found some stuff, but still unclear.
I have a file named "userfile" which stores the users info in this form: email:username:password:
I want the user to be able to change their password.
i tried with sed s/oldpass/newpass/g userfile and it displayed to the standard output correct. then when i checked the userfile, it was still using the old password.
Then i found the "c" flag which is change. but then i try to test sed s/oldpass/newpass/c userfile i get a message
Function s/oldpass/newpass/c cannot be parsed
Can anyone help me? im just trying to allow a user to update their password and have the changes saved in userfile.
thanks!
primal
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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
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# RPM spec-file
%install
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HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
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SEE ALSO
shtool(1), sed(1).
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