#!/usr/bin/python
string = "some text in front From here in the middle to here at the end"
fromindex = string.index("From here")
toindex = string.index("to here")
tobeReplace = string[ fromindex : toindex + len("to here") ]
string.replace( tobeReplace , "new text")
I'm trying to delete lines from a large text file using VI.
Every line that I am wanting to delete start with 'S' - all others do not. (A list of users)
I've tried using * but doesn't seem to like it...any ideas...
Doesn't have to be VI - but I'm better with VI than sed/awk. (8 Replies)
when writing a shell script (bourne) and using a unix command like 'ls' is there anything special you need to do to use a wildcard (like *)? (3 Replies)
ok, I'm trying to write a script file that lists files with specific elements in the name into a txt file, it looks like this
ls s*.dat > file_names.txt
can't figure out whats wrong with that line, any ideas?
thanks in advance (10 Replies)
Hi All
Please excuse another straightforward question. When creating a tar archive from a directory I am attempting to use wildcards to eliminate certain filetypes (otherwise the archive gets too large). So I am looking for something along these lines.
tar -cf archive.tar * <minus all *.rst... (5 Replies)
Hello
I have this script:
#!/bin/ksh
INPUTFILE=$1
TEMPFILE=$INPUTFILE.$$
OUTPUTFILE=$INPUTFILE.new
# nr of arguments has to be 1
if
then
echo "\nUsage: $0 inputfile\n"
return 1
fi
# inputfile must exist and be readable
if
then (13 Replies)
Hi All,
Need you guys' help to achieve the following:
I have some strings and i wish to threw off the end part that's in the file path.
From:
/directoryname1/subdirectoryname1/abc.txt
/directoryname2/subdirectoryname2/defggf.txt
To:
/directoryname1/subdirectoryname1/... (7 Replies)
Is there some rule about using wildcards in path? Say I want to create a file, but one of the directories in the path is called 1433d.default and on different machines it will be called <some other string>.default
touch ~/Library/Application/*.default/myfile
In theory I thought that... (5 Replies)
I am using this code to locate and modify one particular ID in a file containing thousands of entries
sed 's/^>OldID/>NewID/g' Infile > Outfile
How can I modify the code so I can rename all old IDs to a new unique ID?
I tried this
sed 's/^>*/>NewID/g' Infile > Outfile
but it did not... (10 Replies)
These 2 websites do a GREAT job of explaining different types of wildcards. I learned about the categories of characters which I never knew about at all.
GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Guide - Wildcards
GREP (1 Reply)
to scp using windcards you use the following :
scp 'hostname:/home/username/diff_201110*' .
Enjoy ! (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: phpsnook
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
trim
textutil::trim(n) Text and string utilities, macro processing textutil::trim(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
textutil::trim - Procedures to trim strings
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2
package require textutil::trim ?0.7?
::textutil::trim::trim string ?regexp?
::textutil::trim::trimleft string ?regexp?
::textutil::trim::trimright string ?regexp?
::textutil::trim::trimPrefix string prefix
::textutil::trim::trimEmptyHeading string
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The package textutil::trim provides commands that trim strings using arbitrary regular expressions.
The complete set of procedures is described below.
::textutil::trim::trim string ?regexp?
Remove in string any leading and trailing substring according to the regular expression regexp and return the result as a new
string. This is done for all lines in the string, that is any substring between 2 newline chars, or between the beginning of the
string and a newline, or between a newline and the end of the string, or, if the string contain no newline, between the beginning
and the end of the string. The regular expression regexp defaults to "[ \t]+".
::textutil::trim::trimleft string ?regexp?
Remove in string any leading substring according to the regular expression regexp and return the result as a new string. This apply
on any line in the string, that is any substring between 2 newline chars, or between the beginning of the string and a newline, or
between a newline and the end of the string, or, if the string contain no newline, between the beginning and the end of the string.
The regular expression regexp defaults to "[ \t]+".
::textutil::trim::trimright string ?regexp?
Remove in string any trailing substring according to the regular expression regexp and return the result as a new string. This apply
on any line in the string, that is any substring between 2 newline chars, or between the beginning of the string and a newline, or
between a newline and the end of the string, or, if the string contain no newline, between the beginning and the end of the string.
The regular expression regexp defaults to "[ \t]+".
::textutil::trim::trimPrefix string prefix
Removes the prefix from the beginning of string and returns the result. The string is left unchanged if it doesn't have prefix at
its beginning.
::textutil::trim::trimEmptyHeading string
Looks for empty lines (including lines consisting of only whitespace) at the beginning of the string and removes it. The modified
string is returned as the result of the command.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category textutil
of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
SEE ALSO
regexp(n), split(n), string(n)
KEYWORDS
prefix, regular expression, string, trimming
textutil 0.7 textutil::trim(n)