If it doesn't exactly what you want twiddle yourself with it. Here is how to do it:
The s-command (s is for substitute) is a simple sed-device:
s/<pattern>/<new>/
will change every first occurence of <pattern> in a line with <new>. For example:
s/dog/cat/
will change the first occurrence of the word "dog" on every line to the word "cat".
Notice that only the first occurrence is changed, hence the second "dog" still stands there. If you want every occurrence to be changed use the "g" option for the s-command:
s/dog/cat/g
This would change the second (and any other) occurrence in the second line too.
sed and awk are mighty tools and you should put much effort in learning them when you work in a Unix environment. I recommend Dale Doughertys book "sed & awk" (O'Reilly) as simply the best book i know on this topic.
I'm not very familiar with the ssh command. When I tried to set a variable and then echo its value on a remote machine via ssh, I found a problem. For example,
$ ITSME=itsme
$ ssh xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx "ITSME=itsyou; echo $ITSME"
itsme
$ ssh xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx 'ITSME=itsyou; echo $ITSME'
itsyou
$... (3 Replies)
Hi guys, I have a sed line in double quotes which works fine, but I want it to be in single quotes
here is the sed line
sed "/abc_def/s/\'.*\'/\'\${abc_def}\'/"
can some one give the equivalent to the above script in single quotes
Thanks a ton (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am using the following command to create a log file.
echo "`date` Starting the workflow" >> MYLOG_`date '+%d%m%Y'`.log
My application (Informatica) takes the above command and issues the following to the UNIX server.
sh -c "echo "`date` Starting the workflow" >> MYLOG_`date... (1 Reply)
Unix superusers,
I am new to unix but would like to learn more about grep. I am very familiar with regular expressions as i have used them for searching text files in windows based text editors. Since I am not very familiar with Unix, I dont understand when one should use GREP with the... (2 Replies)
I have one file a.txt as below.
a.txt
"aaas","111111","ewwee32e","deee333",
"aaas","111111","ewwee32e","deee333",
"aaas","111111","ewwee32e","deee333",
"aaas","111111","ewwee32e","deee333",
I want to write a script to process a.txt and want the output as below in different file as below -... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have data as
"01/22/97-"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa""aaa""aabbbbbbbbcccccc""zbcd""dddddddddeeeeeeeeefffffff"
I want to remove only the Consequitive double quotes and not the one which occurs single.
My O/P must be ... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Trying to change the prompt. I have the following code.
export PS1='
<${USER}@`hostname -s`>$ '
The hostname is not displayed
<abc@`hostname -s`>$ uname -a
AIX xyz 1 6 00F736154C00
<adcwl4h@`hostname -s`>$
If I use double quotes, then the hostname is printed properly but... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am little new to forum and new on unix side. I have a small issue below:
I am reading a file that has 5 columns something like below.
col1,col2,col3,col4,col5
Some records are having double quoted values something like below:
"value1","value2","value3","value4","value5"
I need... (8 Replies)
Hi Froum.
I have tried in vain to find a solution for this problem - I'm trying to replace any double quotes within a quoted string with a single quote, leaving everything else as is.
I have the following data:
Before:
... (32 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm unable to load the data using sql loader where there are double quotes within the double quotes As these are optionally enclosed by double quotes.
Sample Data :
"221100",138.00,"D","0019/1477","44012075","49938","49938/15043000","Television - 22" Refurbished - Airwave","Supply... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
pcresample
PCRESAMPLE(3) Library Functions Manual PCRESAMPLE(3)NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
PCRE SAMPLE PROGRAM
A simple, complete demonstration program, to get you started with using PCRE, is supplied in the file pcredemo.c in the PCRE distribution.
The program compiles the regular expression that is its first argument, and matches it against the subject string in its second argument.
No PCRE options are set, and default character tables are used. If matching succeeds, the program outputs the portion of the subject that
matched, together with the contents of any captured substrings.
If the -g option is given on the command line, the program then goes on to check for further matches of the same regular expression in the
same subject string. The logic is a little bit tricky because of the possibility of matching an empty string. Comments in the code explain
what is going on.
If PCRE is installed in the standard include and library directories for your system, you should be able to compile the demonstration pro-
gram using this command:
gcc -o pcredemo pcredemo.c -lpcre
If PCRE is installed elsewhere, you may need to add additional options to the command line. For example, on a Unix-like system that has
PCRE installed in /usr/local, you can compile the demonstration program using a command like this:
gcc -o pcredemo -I/usr/local/include pcredemo.c
-L/usr/local/lib -lpcre
Once you have compiled the demonstration program, you can run simple tests like this:
./pcredemo 'cat|dog' 'the cat sat on the mat'
./pcredemo -g 'cat|dog' 'the dog sat on the cat'
Note that there is a much more comprehensive test program, called pcretest, which supports many more facilities for testing regular expres-
sions and the PCRE library. The pcredemo program is provided as a simple coding example.
On some operating systems (e.g. Solaris), when PCRE is not installed in the standard library directory, you may get an error like this when
you try to run pcredemo:
ld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
This is caused by the way shared library support works on those systems. You need to add
-R/usr/local/lib
(for example) to the compile command to get round this problem.
AUTHOR
Philip Hazel
University Computing Service
Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
REVISION
Last updated: 23 January 2008
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 University of Cambridge.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWpcre |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for PCRE is available on http://opensolaris.org.
PCRESAMPLE(3)