I have a text file that has links in it.
I can write a match for sed to replace the link with anything.
For example:
http://www.google.com
becomes
XxX
But what I'm after is not to replace the link with something but to remove everything else and just leave the link. I want a... (5 Replies)
hi,
how can i make use of a command in the replacement segment..
cat a | sed '/^*]\{3\}$/{
s/\(.*\)/REPLACEMENT/g
}'
suppose if I want to use a awk command in the replacement section , how to achieve that ?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Okay, title is kind of confusion, but basically, I have a lot of scripts on a server that I need to replace a ps command, however, the new ps command I'm trying to replace the current one with pipes to sed at one point. So now I am attempting to create another script that replaces that line.
... (1 Reply)
Hi:
it seems very strange.
there is a file with multiple lines. After I squeezed out the consecutive blank lines (and some other text processing), somehow the
sed '/\n/! d' file
can not generate any output, as if it can't find any line with newline.
the file is has many lines, so... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to use SED to do the following string replacement:
asd1abc to www1cda
asd2abc to www2cda
...
asd9abc to www9cda
I can use 'asd.abc' to find the orignal string, however I don't know how to generate the target string. Any suggestion?
Thanks,
... (2 Replies)
Hi can anyone help with the following:
echo "Date range on 5th May is between -010516 and 050516- please continue "| sed 's/\(.*-\)\(.*-\)\(.*$\)/\2/'
output
010516 and 050516-
What i need is to include the - to be included.
Desired output:
-010516 and 050516-
I know... (11 Replies)
In a shell script I am replacing the asterisks in a file:
sed "s/\*/"0"/g" /home/download/$COMPANY_CODE/file_new > /home/download/$COMPANY_CODE/fileI need to log which positions were replaced & position(01:20) from the line it was replaced in. I am not sure how to do so. Also, instead of... (11 Replies)
I have a workaround to the problem i m posting, however if someone wants to look at my query and respond ... i will appreciate.
This is in reference to this thread -> https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/267630-extract-between-two-exact-matched-strings.html
I have data.txt as... (11 Replies)
Hi, i have file file.txt with data like:
START
03:11:30 a
03:11:40 b
END
START
03:13:30 eee
03:13:35 fff
END
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
START
03:14:30 eee
03:15:30 fff
END
ggggggggggg
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I want the below output
START (13 Replies)
i have a large file where i want to look for any record that is is larger or smaller than 21 and if it is the case i want to report and break SED .. how can i achieve it ?
i dont want sed to scan the complete file after one non match is found. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: boncuk
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)