I would imagine something like:
"if a line containing ":" is followed by an empty line delete both lines (the line with ":" and the empty line)"
i.e. something like in general
if a line containing regex1 is followed (immediately after) by a line containing regex2 delete both lines.
if it would be on one line I would do: sed '/regex1.*regex2/d' -->
how to spread this command on 2 lines? And consider hat in my case regex2 is an empty line ( i.e. ^$).
I have a file which has the first blank line:
sundev22$cat /t1/bin/startallocs
/t1/bin/startallocsys 123
sundev22$
Is there a command to remove this first blank line? Thanks for help -A (4 Replies)
I'm new to using sed and grep commands, but have found them extremely useful. However I am having a hard time figuring this one out:
Delete every line containing the word CEN and the next line as well.
ie. test.txt
blue
324 CEN
green
red
blue
324 CEN
green
red
blue
to produce:... (2 Replies)
I've got a report I need to make easier to read Using sh on HP-UX 11.12.
In short, I want to search for a regular expression and when found, examine the next line to see if it's blank. If so, then delete both lines. If not blank, move on to the next regexp. Repeat.
So far I've got:
... (7 Replies)
All,
I have a file which contains two entry with spaces (either one or more than one space). ex.
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_YR_END_INI.sql
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_WK_END_INI.sql
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_MTH_END_INI.sql
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_YR_END_INC.sql
now I want to... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file that I want to be able to insert a new line before every instance of a regex. I can get it to do this for each line that contains the regex, but not for each instance.
Contents of infile:
Test this 1...
Test this 2...
Test this 3... Test this 4... Test this... (2 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve.. i have a file with below contents
cat fileName
blah blah blah
.
.DROP this
REJECT that
.
--sport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
--dport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
.
.
.
more blah blah blah
--dport 3306... (14 Replies)
Hello.
I have a config file (/etc/my_config_file) which may content :
#
# port for HTTP (descriptions, SOAP, media transfer) traffic
port=8200
# network interfaces to serve, comma delimited
network_interface=eth0
# set this to the directory you want scanned.
# * if have multiple... (6 Replies)
Hi guys I am trying to figure out how to match a pattern with a regex up to a full blank line. I will show you what I mean with this example:
example A
movie name: ted
movie name: TMNT
movie name: Jinxed
example B
movie names:
Gravity
Faster
Turbo
song titles:
dont
hello
problem (8 Replies)
Hi,
Test file x.txt below. This file is generated by a program that I unfortunately do not have control on how it gets presented/generated.
create PACKAGE "XXX_INTERFACE_DEFECT_RPT_TEST" is
TYPE refCursor IS REF CURSOR;
Function queryRecords (
p_status varchar2,
...
...
...
)... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)