I needed to use "*" instead of "+". Some versions of sed may need "-r" to use extended regular expressions, in which the parens also need to modified:
Producing:
There are (too) many versions of sed, so one must know which version one is using. For example, if you were to leave the "\(", "\)" in the 3rd example, you would get an error message, "invalid reference \1", not very informative, at least not directly ... cheers, drl
Hi Dudes,
I want to replace \n with \r\n through out the file. For this I opened vi editor there tried with " s/\\n/\\r\\n/g ", with this I must be able to satisfy my requirements. But it is searching for the current line (Where cursor is). I need this for entire file. No problem if it is... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a file with the following data.
E01011U, ,E11, , , ,0
E03012U, ,E14, , , ,0
E02013U, ,E25, , , ,0
I want to change it to
('E01-01-1-U','E11' );
('E03-01-2-U','E14' );
('E02-01-3-U','E25' );
Please let me know about it .Thanks in advance. (10 Replies)
Ravi .
Pawan 19.23
sanjeeva .
I want to replace '.' into 'NULL' not the dot between 19.23 .. only single dots to NULL
how to do replacement after opening file in Vi (5 Replies)
hi
i have input file in this format
E102|0|1-23-1994|0|12-5-1994|E003|A|10450|charan,devupalli|5000
how to convert this into outfile
E102,0,1-23-1994,0,12-5-1994,E003,A,10450,charan,devupalli,5000
i wann the output in excel sheet.........that is why i am converting into csv..
but i have... (6 Replies)
Hi,
djfksdjk)))) kmmm jfdfjk))))
I want to replace the first ')' after kmmm with #.
The output would be djfksdjk)))) exists jfdfjk#)))
Can anyone help on this? (3 Replies)
Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
I'd like to be able to rename "sites/WHATEVER/files" to "sites/SOMETHINGELSE/files" within the sql dump.
This is quite easy with sed:
sed -e... (1 Reply)
Here is my file content
age=12
age=34
age=54
age=23
Hello world. This is the age result I am getting.
To day date is 23-02-2010.
From the above content I have to replace all the values after 'age=*' to age=24.
How to do it. (1 Reply)
I need to replace dashes (i.e. -) if present from positions 351-357 with zero (i.e. 0), I also need to replace dash (i.e “-“) if present between position 024-043 with zero (i.e. 0) & I replace " " (i.e. 2 space characters) if present at position 381-382 with "04". Total length of record is 413.... (11 Replies)
I need to replace the (*) in the fist of a list with numbers using sed for example >
this file contain a list
* linux
* computers
* labs
* questions
to >>>>
this file contain a list
1. linux
2. computers
3. labs
4. questions (7 Replies)
I have a csv which has lot of columns . I was looking for an awk script which would extract a column twice. for the first occurance the header and data needs to be intact but for the second occurance i want to replace the header name since it a duplicate and extract year value which is in ddmmyy... (10 Replies)
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echo
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