I'm trying to use the following command to do a batch find and replace in all commonly named files through a file hierarchy
which works fine except for a substitution involving parenthesis.
As a specific example I'm trying to sub "G(d)" with "G('d,'p)."
The interpreter seems to just ignore the parentheses and not finding the string "Gd" simply does nothing. I can't just find/replace "d" as the character appears throughout the file.
Hi
I would like to replace a comma in parentheses to a semicolon for example. Other commas outside () stay unchanged. How can I do this?
aaaa,bbb,ccc,ddd(eee,fff,ggg),hhh,iii
to
aaaa,bbb,ccc,ddd(eee;fff;ggg),hhh,iii
Thanks (5 Replies)
Let's say I'm trying to match potentially multiple sets of parentheses. Is there a way in a regular expression to force a match of closing parentheses specifically in the number of the opening parentheses?
For example, if the string is "((foo bar))", I want to be able to say "match any number of... (7 Replies)
Hi Expert,
Could you please explain why below two perl code get different result?
Thanks a lot.
sub test{
return (2,3,4,5,6,3,4,50);
}
($a,$b)=(test); # 3,6
($a,$b)=test; # 2,3 (2 Replies)
Hi,
I tried to adapt bartus's solution to my problem, without success. I want to replace all the occurences of this:
with:
, where something can contain an arbitrary number of balanced parens and brakets.
Any ideas ?
Best, (1 Reply)
Hi,
Please could someone advise, how I can resolve this issue with my find and replace command :
perl -i -npe "s#RLM_LICENSE.*#RLM_LICENSE=$TEAM_TOP/licenses/abc.demo.lic#;" environment.properties
$TEAM_TOP is an environment varible within my system.
when i run this perl command from... (1 Reply)
Hello Folks,
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Find;
open F,shift or die $!;
my %ip=map/(\S+)\s+(\S+)/,<F>;
close F;
find sub{
if( -f ){
local @ARGV=($_);
local $^I="";
while( <> ){
!/#/ && s/(\w+)\.fs\.rich\.us/$ip{$1}/g;
print;
}
}... (8 Replies)
Can someone help me with a sed command:
There will be multiple occurences in a file that look like this:
MyFunction(12c34r5)
and I need to replace that with just the 12c34r5 for every occurrence. The text between the parentheses will be different on each occurrence, so I can't search for that.... (4 Replies)
Hi!
I have a directory full of .plist type files from which I need to delete a line. Not every file contains the line, but of course I'd like to do it recursively. The line which I want to delete is:
<string>com.apple.PhotoBooth</string>
and looks like this in its native habitat:
... (9 Replies)
Hi,
Can somebody tell whats wrong with "find and replace perl code".
I wanted to find "\n".write(status,data" and replace with "\n",data" in multipls files.
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @files = <*.c>;
foreach $fileName (@files) {
print "$fileName\n";
my $searchStr0 =... (4 Replies)
Trying to find and replace one string with another string in a file
#!/usr/bin/perl
$csd_table_path = "/file.ntab";
$find_str = '--bundle_type=021';
$repl_str = '--bundle_type=021 --target=/dev/disk1s2';
if( system("/usr/bin/perl -p -i -e 's/$find_str/$repl_str/' $csd_table_path")... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cillmor
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replace
REPLACE(1) MySQL Database System REPLACE(1)NAME
replace - a string-replacement utility
SYNOPSIS
replace arguments
DESCRIPTION
The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the standard input.
Note
The replace utility is deprecated as of MySQL 5.7.18 and is removed in MySQL 8.0.
Invoke replace in one of the following ways:
shell> replace from to [from to] ... -- file_name [file_name] ...
shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file_name
from represents a string to look for and to represents its replacement. There can be one or more pairs of strings.
Use the -- option to indicate where the string-replacement list ends and the file names begin. In this case, any file named on the command
line is modified in place, so you may want to make a copy of the original before converting it. replace prints a message indicating which
of the input files it actually modifies.
If the -- option is not given, replace reads the standard input and writes to the standard output.
replace uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. It can be used to swap strings. For example, the following command swaps
a and b in the given files, file1 and file2:
shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...
replace supports the following options.
o -?, -I
Display a help message and exit.
o -#debug_options
Enable debugging.
o -s
Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
o -v
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
o -V
Display version information and exit.
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MySQL 5.7 06/07/2018 REPLACE(1)