Alright, I think I know what I am doing with sed(which probably means I don't). But I cant figure out how to replace just the first occurance of a string. I have tried sed, ed, and grep but can't seem to figure it out. If you have any suggestions I am open to anything! (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have file with following content
...........................
..........TEST..........
..........TEST..........
.....................
.....TEST..........
.....................
.....................
.....TEST..........
I want to replace nth "TEST" with "OK" using... (4 Replies)
Hi, I've been trying to figure this one out and found a post about this on the forum here but the solution didn't seem to work for me. Basically what I have is a file that looks something like:
stuff
morestuff
0
otherthing
0
etc
I want to substitute for the 0 but what I want to... (9 Replies)
Hi,
i have string var1=NN. Based on conditions, i have to change this first N to Y or second N to Y and send the details to other process. How to do that? This is a linux machine.
Thanks,
Selva (1 Reply)
I have a record like the one given below.
010000306551~IN ~N~ |WINDWARD PK|Alpharetta|
If ~ is present more than instance in a line,then I need to delete those instances.
Any ideas?
I am working in Solaris (7 Replies)
I was told a way to do this with awk earlier today but is there a way with sed to specify the last instance of a character on a line?
You will know what character you're looking for but there could be none or one hundred instances of it on a line say and you ONLY want to specify the last one for... (3 Replies)
test.txt is the dynamic file but some of combination are fix
like below are the lines
;wonder_off =
;wonder_off = disabled
wonder_off =
wonder_off = disabled
the test.txt can content them in any order
#cat test.xt
;wonder_off =
;wonder_off = disabled
wonder_off =
wonder_off =... (5 Replies)
Suppose you have a line like this:
cn=user.blr.ou=blr.india.o=company
The line should be converted like this:
cn=user.blr,ou=blr.india,o=comapny
Was wondering how to do that using shell script.
Please use tags where appropriate, thank you (4 Replies)
Hi,
Need help on replacing every second instance of delimeter.
Scenario:
var="Name1,Value1,Name2,Value2,Name3,Value3,Name4,Value"
I want every second "," to replace with "|"
I tried like below
echo $var| sed 's/,/|/2'
But, it's not working.
Expected output:
... (4 Replies)