sed treats & as the pattern space - in other words what sed found as a match for your regular expression. & as an operator means "print the pattern space".
One workaround without doing a lot of sed hacking is to change the & character to something else, then change it back using tr:
Greetings,
I am doing something that I don't know if it is possible...
I have a file with a line looks like this:
<%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n>
and I am trying to replace this line with
<%s \n%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n>
in Shell script with sed command...
StringToReplace='%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n'... (2 Replies)
I need to do the following:
text in the format of: ADDRESS=abcd123:1111
- abcd123:1111 is different on every system.
replace with: ADDRESS=localhost:2222
sed 's/ADDRESS=<What do I use here?>/ADDRESS=localhost:2222/g'
Everything I've tried ends up with:
... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I have input file like below
Hi this is "vinoth".
Hi happy to work with 'unix'
USA(united states of America)
My script variables are below :
Dquote=Ộ
Squote=&#$567
Obrac=&^986
Cbrac=&^745
I want to read the variables in my SED command to replace the double quote,single... (9 Replies)
How can I replace the follong text including to number 7000?
cat tmp0.txt
Winston (UK) Wong
I would the 7000 to replace Winston (UK) Wong.
I fail with method below:
sed ' s /Winston\(UK\)Wong/7000 tmp0.txt' (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a text file that contains
I1SP2 *=*=Y=M=D001D
My requirement is to replace all occurrence of =* to =Z
expected o/p is I1SP2 *=Z=Y=M=D001D
I have tried with
sed 's/=*/=Z/g' file
sed 's!\=*!\=Z/g' file
sed 's!\=*!\=Z!g' file
sed 's!\=\*!\=Z!g' file
but its not... (3 Replies)
Hi all
I got test.test.test and need
test.test\.test *
I need the backslash before the last dot in the line
I tried
echo test.test.test | sed 's/\./\\./g'
but it gives me
test\.test\.test
Thanks (7 Replies)
I have a file (input) which contains are below.
Member Analytics Engine
Enterprise Manager
Dev Tutorial
I want to change contains as below by using sed command
'Member Analytics Engine';
'Enterprise Manager';
'Dev Tutorial';
First, I tried to add (') on every first line by using sed... (8 Replies)
Dear all,
I was wondering If you could help me out.
I Am using a batch script to midfy some text files.
Input:
912856
912857
912904Amongst others I use this line:
REM I want to replace all lines that start with a 6-digit Number with a ftp command "get" followed by a path and the 6-digit... (9 Replies)