This removes everything up to the first equals sign on every line:
This replaces a comma with a newline and two tabs. Again, there are sed variants which recognize \n and \t and others which don't (probably most don't understand \t) so consult your local sed manual page and/or experiment.
Hi everybody,
This time I am having one issue in perl.
I have to create comma separated file using the following type of information. The problem is the columns do not have any specific delimiter. So while using split I am getting different value. Some where it is space(S) and some where it is... (9 Replies)
Hi,
i have a string in format of text1.text2.text3 . how do i parse it using . as delimiter . i understand this can be done by tr .However i am trying to assign these to different variables such as
a=text1
b=text2
c=text3 etc? how can i do it (3 Replies)
Hey guys,
I have this file generated by me... i want to create some HTML output from it.
The problem is that i am really confused about how do I go about reading the file.
The file is in the following format:
TID1 Name1 ATime=xx AResult=yyy AExpected=yyy BTime=xx BResult=yyy... (8 Replies)
I have 5 column in sample txt file
where in i have to create report based upon 1,3 and 5 th column..
I have : in first and third coulmn. But I want to retain the colon of fifth coulmn and remove the colon of first column..
5th column contains String message (for example,... (7 Replies)
Hi guys...Wow I just composed a huge post and it got erased as I was logged out automatically
Anyways I hope someone can help me out here.
So the task I'm working on is like this
I have a bunch of files that I care about sitting in a directory say $HOME/files
Now my job is to go and loop... (6 Replies)
Hi all :)
It sounds complex, for example
I want to find the whole html file (there are 5 entries of this string and I need to get all of them) for the string
"<td class="contentheading" width="100%">", get the next line from it only till the point that says "</td>", plus removing \t (tabs)
... (6 Replies)
I have a file containing data lines:
1|14|CONSTANT||11111111||00887722||30/04/2012|E|O|X||||20120528093654-30.04.2012|STA11ACT|ddts555S||||00001|rrttbbggcc|
1|15|CONSTANT||22222222||00887722||30/04/2012|E|O|X||||20120528093654-30.04.2012|rrtha772|llkis000||||00001|AAEtbbggcc|
I want to add a... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a string which can be completely unstructred. I am looking to parse out values within that String.
Here is an example
<Random Strings> String1=<some number a> String2=<some number b> String3=<some number c> Satish=<some number d> String4=<some number e>
I only want to parse out... (1 Reply)
Hello guys,
I have a problem where I need to add a delimiter, that can be | for example, after each 28000 chars.
The problem is that sometimes 1 row, which should contain 28000 chars is split in 2, so I want to put the delimiter after each 28000 so I will know the end of each row.
Please... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file with a pipe delimiter. I need to replace the delimiter with html tags.
I managed to get all the delimiters replaced along with first and last but the requirement is that I need to change 7th delimiter with slight change.
File1:
... (2 Replies)
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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)