08-25-2008
sed 's/[ ]*([^)]*)[ ]*/ /g'
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I have a line
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hey,
Im just wondering is there away to get sed to read from a variable
eg
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what's the code for delete everything before
sssss
asdf
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Just want to know why when I do the following in sed, the required is not extracted.
echo "ab01cde234" | sed 's/*$//'
result: ab01cde (Which is correct)
echo "ab01cde234" |sed 's/.*\(*\)$/\1/'
result: blank (was expecting 234)
or
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Hi fellow linux-ers,
I have a quick question for you. I have the following text, which I would like to modify:
10 121E(121) 16 Jan
34S 132E 24 Feb
42 176E(176) 18 Sep
21S 164E 25 May
15 171W(-171) 09 Jul
How can I do the following 2 modifications using sed and/or awk?
1. in 1st column,... (1 Reply)
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Hi all,
While doing some checks I found a kind of interesting arithmetic factorial chart with sed, sharing this may be simple but thought to share,
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Hi,
Below is my input file:
Long list of significant figure
1.757E-4
7.51E-3
5.634E-5
.
.
.
Desired output file:
0.0001757
0.00751
0.00005634
.
.
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Hi Guys,
Could you please kindly explain what exactly the below SED command will do ?
I am quite confused and i assumed that,
sed 's/*$/ /'
1. It will remove tab and extra spaces .. with single space.
The issue is if it is removing tab then it should be Î right ..
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Discussion started by: Nandy
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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)