1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I know in vi you can do :%s/replaceme/withthis/ but if i want to find all lines say without a # at the begining and I want to put it in how would that command be formatted? I can't figure it out for the life of me. #comment blah1 hey1 grrr1 #comment #blah1 #hey1 #grrr1 (5 Replies)

2. Linux

Hi guys, Is there another function i could use to print out an output beside using echo? (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have query terms like this: a) apple bannana b) apple bannana AND chickko c) "milk shake" OR Graphes orange whereever there is space substitue with AND operator. I tried like this: (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am not a frequent user of Unix. With my little knowledge and some scrambling I was able to get to this point .. please help me get this right. I have 2 files file1.txt 123AAAAA111111111111111 456BBBBBB222222222222222222 789CCCCC33333333333333333 file2.txt AAAAA11111... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

My question is how would I substitute for ceratain number of occurences in a line? If this is my input rjohns BFSTDBS01 Standard Silver NPRO30DINCR 2 Client Is it possible to change the first 3 occurences of space " " to a comma? (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, trying to learn more abt sed :( i want to substitute a variable(a) with other variable(b) appended. Read.txt contains: home/test2/abc home/test/root1 input.txt contains: make test "home/test1/none"version="1.3" wt's wrong test "home/test2/abc"version="1.0" make save... (9 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I usually use : Code: awk '{gsub(/xxx/,"yyy");print}' to substitute xxx with yyy. I have a problem substitute an expression like Code: x ' y Because of the ( ' ) Any idea on how to get over this problem? Thanks (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there, i am updating a file on UNIX and have many lines as per below : listen:x:37:4:Network Admin:/usr/net/nls: i would like to substitute from the :/usr to the end of the line. so at the moment im using this : :s/"\/$/ /g but i get an error.can anyone help? thank you (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a "|" delimited file as shown below. 55987|2011-04-07|09:30: 8.0|09:30:27.4|9194 55988|2011-04 07|09:30:21.0|09:30:27.4|9199 55989|2011-04-07|09:30:25.0|09:30:27.5|9176 55990|2011-04-07|09:29:33.0|09:30:27.5|9196 55991|2011-04-07|09:30:21.0|09:30:27.5|9199... (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a text file (allWords.txt), that I would like to search through. Here is a snippet of what it looks like... a aah aahed aahing aahs aardvark aardvarks aardwolf ab abaci aback abacus abacuses abaft ...... I would like to use the grep search to search, line by line, for... (8 Replies)