inserting a text after a certain word in text files Post: 302256184

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can a shell script pull the first word (or nth word) off each line of a text file?

Greetings. I am struggling with a shell script to make my life simpler, with a number of practical ways in which it could be used. I want to take a standard text file, and pull the 'n'th word from each line such as the first word from a text file. I'm struggling to see how each line can be...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Inserting text and modifying the file

I am in a dire need of doing this job , please help from shell script or perl script. It will be highly appreciated. Please have a look at the following INPUT file; The first 14 rows are not of interest but I want them to be included in the output file as they are. From the row 14...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Perl - Inserting text

Hey, I have 10 lines of text ... And I would like to Insert prefix for each line with static text. perl -pi -e 's/()/$1 TEST$./' data.txt Each line will have different static prefix, Code above works perfectly for 1st line ... I'm just not sure how I can run same command for 2nd line 3rd...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Inserting text with SED

Hi guys, I need to insert @test.com after each entry in my .txt file. 1 2 3 4 1@test.com 2@test.com 3@test.com 4@test.com Tried to use cat test.txt |sed 's/$/@test.com/'but it does this instead: 1 @test.com 2

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to find text in files without using the word itself but the assigned variable of it

I'm having a problem how to find the specific word in a file without using the word itself as a search but using the assigned variable which is the $passwd.. what command should I use to find the value of $passwd written in different script? how do I use the command to print the value in this...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Separate text files in a folder by word count

Hi, been searching Google for like an hour and I doubt I got the right keywords so might as well ask here. What I need: Before: Article1.txt 564 Article2.txt 799 Article3.txt 349 Article4.txt 452 * Separate files over 400 wordcount * After: Article1.txt 564...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Inserting text into a new file

Hi all, I want to create a file and then insert some text into it. I'm trying to create a .sh script that will create a new python file from a template. Can someone tell me why this won't work, touch $1 | sed -e '1i\Some test code here' Sorry I'm quite new to all this! Just as a side...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Inserting some text if a field in the last column changes

Hi, I have a file which looks like this: A 01 00 B 02 00 C 04 00 D 00 01 E 01 01 F 02 01 G 01 04 H 02 04 I want to insert some text if the field if the last column changes. It should look like this: Value 00 A 01 00 B 02 00 C 04 00 Value 01

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help with sed and inserting text from another file

I need to insert text from one file into another file after specific term. I guess sed is the best method of doing this and I can insert a specified text string using this script but I am not sure how to modify it to insert text from another file: #!/bin/sh sed 's/\<VirtualHost...

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Inserting information from old text file into a new text file

Hello, I'm trying to take information from a list of hundreds of subject ids (where each line is a new subject id), and insert each line into a new text file that contains the pathnames for each subject. To clarify, all subject have a similiar path name (e.g., C:\data\SUBJECT_ID\) that contains...

LEARN ABOUT LINUX

sotruss

SOTRUSS(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        SOTRUSS(1)

NAME

       sotruss - trace shared library calls through PLT

SYNOPSIS

       sotruss [OPTION...] [--] EXECUTABLE [EXECUTABLE-OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       sotruss is a small wrapper around ld.so that runs the specified executable until it exits. It intercepts and produce a trace of the dynamic
       library calls which are called by the executed process via the Procedure Linkage Table (PLT). It outputs the  caller,  the  calle  and  the
       parameters as each call is executed.

OPTIONS

       -F, --from FROMLIST
              Trace calls from objects on FROMLIST.

       -T, --to TOLIST
              Trace calls to objects on TOLIST.

       -e, --exit
              Also show exits from the function calls.

       -f, --follow
              Trace child processes as they are created by currently traced processes as a result of the fork(2) system call.

       -o, --output FILENAME
              Write output to FILENAME (or FILENAME. in case -f is also used) instead of standard error.

       -?, --help
              Give this help list

       --usage
              Give a short usage message

       --version
              Print program version

AUTHOR

       Written by Ulrich Drepper.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       ld.so(8).

sotruss                                                              May 2014                                                           SOTRUSS(1)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can a shell script pull the first word (or nth word) off each line of a text file?

Discussion started by: tricky

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Inserting text and modifying the file

Discussion started by: digipak

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Perl - Inserting text

Discussion started by: NDxiak

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Inserting text with SED

Discussion started by: spirm8