Are those file names?
If so, you could do something like this:
This should work on reasonably modern shells.
If you have a specific shell in mind, it may be written a little differently, but this should work for general purposes. It may also fail if you have thousands of files in this directory...
Hi,
I need to pass a space bar or an enter key in a script for it to return control to my script. How do I do this.
For example the spacebar ascii value is 127, how do I tell the script to run this command. (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a string : -
ICFFHASMTAAMPFINCL22082006000002548789632
and i want to add delimiter after certain charater position through a script, eg. ICFFH,ASMTAAMPF,INCL,22082006,000002548789632.
I have tried and am able to achieve it through cut-paste. But i don't want to use cut paste as it... (6 Replies)
hi all
i have input file like this abc.txt
filename.out:
<TAB>ABC<TAB>9
<TAB>AKC<TAB>1
filename1.out:
<TAB>XYZ<TAB>1
<TAB>XYN<TAB>4
and i am trying to replace \n\t with \t so that output will be like this:
filename.out:<TAB>ABC<TAB>9<TAB>AKC<TAB>1... (5 Replies)
I have two files.
Each file has one line with 2500 charaters in it and both lines should be the same, but thay are not.
I need to compare the two lines and find where the differences are. So what I need to do is compare each character one at a time to find out whats different. (4 Replies)
its again sed question. i have line -
sed "s/$old/$new/g" "$f" > $TFILE && mv $TFILE "$f"
working well if
old="myoldfile"
new="mynewfile"
but if i want
old="/home/shailesh/1test/"
new="/home/shailesh/workspace/"
it gives error like
sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unknown option to... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I wanted to replace one word with another word pl help me to solve the same.
example:-
I wanted to replace RXOTX with RXOTRX in a perticuler file with hole.
Regards,
Ramesh (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file which is delimeted with the character '. i need to replace this character with the same character and also a new line.
Can anyone please help me with the tr command for this.
Many thanks
Karan (11 Replies)
Hi,
i am running a shell script where i have assigned a variable to the value passed.
so my variable is
var1="investment/portfolio/run.job"
now i want to assign another variable var2 as
"investment-portfolio-run.out"
how can i do it using awk or something else....
thanks (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I've read lots of posts about tr and sed and such, I haven't been able to get out of this one.
I have a file, like this:
1
,
Jelle
2
,
SandraThe only thing it needs to do is delete the enter between the number and the name.
So, it needs to replace \n,\n with ,
... (7 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a file ...it's like a xml file.
File 1:
<tag1> Value11</tag1><tag2>value12</tag2>
<tag1>Value21</tag1>
...... Continues
Now what I want as output is
Value11|value12
Value21||
......Continues
This is just learning purpose. I tried reading each line, then parsing... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anupam_Halder
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
rpl
RPL(1) BSD General Commands Manual RPL(1)NAME
rpl -- replace strings in files
SYNOPSIS
rpl [-LhiwbqvsRepfdt] [-xSUFFIX] <old_string> <new_string> <target_file ...>
DESCRIPTION
Basic usage is to specify two strings and one or more filenames or directories on the command line. The first string is the string to
replace, and the second string is the replacement string.
-h, --help
A short help text.
-L, --license
Show the license and exit.
-xSUFFIX
Search only files ending with SUFFIX, e.g. ``.txt''. May be specified multiple times.
-i, --ignore-case
Ignore the case of old_string.
-w, --whole-words
Make old_string match only on word boundaries.
-b, --backup
Move the original files to filename~ before replacing them.
-q, --quiet
Quiet mode.
-v, --verbose
Verbose mode.
-s, --dry-run
Simulation mode, no files are changed.
-R, --recursive
Recurse into subdirectories.
-e, --escape
Expand escape sequences in old_string and new_string. Examples of escape sequences are '
' (new-line), ' ' (tab), 'x42' (hexadec-
imal number 42), '