I always kind of wondered this but I have a variable that I want to use in a search and replace. Basically I want to search a file for the string in my variable and replace it with something fixed but I'm unsure of the variable rule in sed. Here's generally what I have:
Not sure if $name needs to be escaped or something. This always confuses me so if someone could help that'd be awesome! Many thanks!
Hi,
How can i use sed command to modify a part of a variable containing "/" by another containing "/" like describe below:
VAR="/app/share/eai"
VAR1="/app/share"
VAR2="/data/test"
echo $VAR | sed 's/... ??? # using sed to replace $VAR1 in $VAR by $VAR2 ? (4 Replies)
I have one File named "txt_file"
# cat txt_file
<DBType>RT</DBType>
<AppType>RT</AppType>
--------------------------------------------------
I want replace "<AppType>RT</AppType>" to
<AppType>XY</AppType> in txt_file and output redirect to Newfile
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I know that I want to entirely replace line 3 in my file filename.txt. I have tried all sorts of variations of
sed 3,3,c\replacement stuff\ filename.txt with no success.
about the only thing that causes any reaction is
sed 3,3c\\ filename.txt
but it just prints out the whole file.
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Thanks to this forum I have managed to work out a solution to my problem and actually understand most of it, but one thing is confusing me and I am sure someone here can explain.
I need to insert a piece of txt into a file. This txt is
awk '{ sub(/$/,"\r"); print }' $JCL_WBB50103_EFTOUT >... (2 Replies)
<tr><td width=10% style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>Package</b></td><td width=10% valign=center style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>JTs</b></td>
This is got to be simple. I run this on the above .html file:
sed... (8 Replies)
I have a simple shell script to read create a mysql database as a particular user. Right now, I have the password set as a variable to make sure someone does not mistype the password. I want to take the hard coded password out of the file and make the user input the password twice to make they... (2 Replies)
Hi there
I am really struggling :eek: to place a value in a variable with the following loop, having run out of ideas please can someone point me in the right direction?
We first read two PIDs of a program (say calc) into an array, then we loop reading the details of those processes into a... (6 Replies)
Hi,
In the following excerpt of shell script code: I could not understand the sed syntax. Could anyone shed some light on this?
configure_ssl()
{
jboss_conf_file=$1
echo "Configuring SSL for -" ${jboss_conf_file}
isSSLSetup=`echo cat ${jboss_conf_file} | grep <Connector... (2 Replies)
Greetings!
Have a quick question for the community today; this time looking at a nifty little sed puzzle ;)
Consider the following file content to be worked through:What needs to happen is theblock should be removed up to and including the following blank line, leavingI have bits and pieces... (8 Replies)