Does this work?
Run this through a loop on each file.
Note that I have assumed that the text in your files is just as you are showing it (exactly the same number and location of space characters to be specific). Even if it isn't you just need to change the awk a bit.
hi, I have an xml file and I need to replace the tags with different names all at a time here is what I have
<cevalue>
<cevalue1>
<cevalue2>
<cevalue3>
<cevalue4>
<cevalue5>
and I need these like these...
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
I tried a few but... (2 Replies)
I'm writing a script which word counts the number of lines in two files. If one file is bigger than the other I'd like to edit one of the files to delete some lines to make both the same. It does not matter where in the file the lines are deleted from. It's expected that this will be ran from... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a file which looks like this
//string = "abcd"; //info
//string = "*pqrs"; //add
string = "#123"; //sub
//string = "#1234567890"
data = check(string)
//string = "#1234567890"
I want to modify this as
string = "#987"; //mult
data = check(string)
How do i do that? (1 Reply)
Hi Penchal,
I would appreciate if you can provide me a brief explanation on what you are trying to do in the commnad below.
echo "6-9-2008" | sed 's/\(.\)-\(.\)-\(.*\)/\3-0\2-0\1/g'
Thanks
Amit (1 Reply)
I have done a script using sed which replaces a string in file.
I face 2 problems, while using sed command.
1)last line of the file is missing.
2)if i am are using wild card character in the command, Its not taking the next matching pattern ie if I am giving the pattern abc*def to be replaced... (2 Replies)
hi
i had posted this earlier.. got no reply !!
how to change assigned value in a file using sed
suppose the file contains
age = 30;
how to change it to
age =50;
i tried sed 's/^age*./age =50;' filename but i am getting the o/p as
age =50; 30;
plz hlp!! (4 Replies)
I have a sed query.
There is a line which has tilde and I want to separate this line using sed.
The line is:
ABP_ETC_ROOT=~xdmadm
The query to get this line is:
sed -n '/\(.*\)~\(.*\)/p' infile
I want to get xdmadm from this line and I am using this sed command:
sed -n... (5 Replies)
Hello Im fairly familiar with using the sed command for substitution, however I have been passed a script which checks the logged on username and directory type with a sed section which I cant figure out. The sed function has me baffled and I cant find out from the man page what its trying to do... (1 Reply)
Hi all, I am trying to use SED to input lines to a file in a specific place.
So far I have;
sed '/#NewEntry/ i\Insert this line' myfile.txt
The output is printing to screen correctly but what is the best way to write it back to the file without overwriting everything?
I tried adding >... (6 Replies)
Hi all, I am trying to remove quite a lot of numbers for a file I have which looks something along the lines of;
1,2,3,4,5,6 etc
I have a list of numbers I want removing looking like;
10000
10987
16572
etc
etc
and have been trying to run;
for id in `cat list` ; do sed -i -e... (8 Replies)
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dos2unix(1) General Commands Manual dos2unix(1)NAME
dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
dos2unix
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
dos2unix a.txt b.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode. Convert c.txt from Mac to Unix
ascii format.
dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
dos2unix -k a.txt
dos2unix -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHORS
Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>
Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO unix2dos(1)mac2unix(1)1995.03.31 dos2unix v3.0 dos2unix(1)