Hi everyone,
Since the previous time I received help from unix.com I have been encouraged to learn more.
going through 1 of the articles(View Article) on sed I found, it pointed an interesting situation.
Suppose the text is :
Romeo and Ethel the Dancer Moves Audience to Tears.
I... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
i have a file test.txt as shown below,
1,test,test111
2,rest,rest222
i want to replace the commas by tab delimiter..,
it should be like,
1 test test111
2 rest rest222
i tried the following code,
sed 's/,/\\t/g' test.txt >> ouptut.txt (9 Replies)
Guyz
I have been using tr command to replace symbol.
I would like to add a symbol to all newlines in a textfile with out replacing them
input
\n (i mean new line)
a
\n
b
\n
c
output
>
a
>
b
>
c (0 Replies)
Hi,
How can I replace the 6th comma on each line (of a csv) with a space?
Any online tutorials with plenty of examples using sed would be very useful.
Alex (2 Replies)
I have a huge file
which is pipe delimiter and i want to replace the pipe delimiter to a comma
Please Help as its v urgent.
Ex: parent|child|alias|....Heading of the file...and the data is of similar structure. (4 Replies)
Hi all,
This my requirement is to spilt the comma's into new line
my sample is
Name,india,ID,cost,Date,vadaloreOffset,neyveliCurveUnit,Riskcuddalore
,,,,,,,,,,,1,0.00576652,,,,,,,,,,,7,0.00625467,,,,,,,,,,,30,0.00832759,,,,,,,,,,,61,0.00977132
expected output to be like this... (2 Replies)
I have the following text as an input text:
input.txt
Results('Toilet', 'Sink', )
and i want to remove the last comma so the output is
output.txt
Results('Toilet', 'Sink' )
I tried using the following sed command, but I get a parsing error:
sed s/, \)/\)/g input.txt >... (5 Replies)
hi
i have a requirement to replace a string with another using sed and to get the result newline separated but after sed replacement the newline vanishes
below is sample code
#!/bin/ksh
set -x
string="name sam\nage 45 \nsport soccer"
echo $string
string=`echo $string | sed... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: midhun19
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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)