05-22-2007
making the changes permanent in a file
Hi Friends.
I have a file called install.data which has fields like :
XXXXX
ACVCGFFTFY UAHIUH OI
CONNECTION=tape/11/
LOCATAION=08-90-89
SIZE=90
I had to change the values of some of these variables. So i did :
grep "SIZE" instal.data | sed 's/[0-9]*/00/' ...this is working fine on command line but i want to make this change permanent in the file without redirecting it to
other file .I dont want to make the changes in the Vi editor . I need to use some command . Can you help in this ???
Thanks,
Vijayaa
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
truncate
TRUNCATE(1) User Commands TRUNCATE(1)
NAME
truncate - shrink or extend the size of a file to the specifed size
SYNOPSIS
truncate OPTION... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size
A FILE argument that does not exist is created.
If a FILE is larger than the specified size, the extra data is lost. If a FILE is shorter, it is extended and the extended part (hole)
reads as zero bytes.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-o, --io-blocks
Treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes
-r, --reference=FILE
use this FILE's size
-s, --size=SIZE
use this SIZE
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
SIZE is a number which may be followed by one of the following suffixes: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P,
E, Z, Y.
SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following modifying characters: `+' extend by, `-' reduce by, `<' at most, `>' at least, `/' round
down to multiple of, `%' round up to multiple of.
Note that the -r and -s options are mutually exclusive.
AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady.
REPORTING BUGS
Report truncate bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
dd(1), truncate(2), ftruncate(2)
The full documentation for truncate is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and truncate programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'truncate invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 TRUNCATE(1)