Hi group,
I want to replace the occurance of a particular text in a paragraph.I tried with Sed,but Sed only displays the result on the screen.How can i update the changes in the original file???
The solution should be a one liner using awk and sed.
Thanks in advance. (5 Replies)
I want to use SED to replace all new line characters of a file, I googled and found this one liner
sed '{:q;N;s/\n//g;t q}' infile
what do :q;N; and t q mean in this script? (6 Replies)
hey everyone,
I want to remove some characters from a string that i have with sed. For example if my string is:
a0=bus a1=car a2=truck
I want my output to look like this:
bus car truck
So i want to delete the two characters before the = and including the =. This is what i came up with... (3 Replies)
Can anyone explain the below sed oneliner?
sed -e ':a' -e '$q;N;11,$D;ba'
It works same as tail command.
I just want to know how it works.
Thanks
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Can anyone explain the below sed oneliner?
sed -e ':a' -e '$q;N;11,$D;ba'
It works same as tail command.
I just want to know how it works.
Thanks (1 Reply)
I have a data base of part numbers:
AAA Thing1
BBB Thing2
CCC Thing3
File one is a list of part numbers:
AAA234
BBB678
CCC2345
Is there a sed one-line that would compare a data base with and replace the part numbers so that the output looks like this?
AAA234 Thing1
BBB678 Thing2... (5 Replies)
I have a data base of part numbers:
AAA Thing1
BBB Thing2
CCC Thing3
File one is a list of part numbers:
XXXX AAA234
XXXX BBB678
XXXX CCC2345
Is there a sed one-line that would compare a data base with and replace the part numbers so that the output looks like this?
XXXX AAA234... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following command.(Delete all trailing blank lines at the end of a file.)
sed -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;ba' -e '}'
I don't understand the logic of this command and also I don't understand why -e is used.
Can you please let me know the logic of this command and why three -e... (5 Replies)
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shtool-table
SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list
SYNOPSIS
shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...
DESCRIPTION
This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-F, --field-sep sep
Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".
-w, --width width
Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.
-c, --columns cols
Number of columns. Default is 3.
-s, --strip strip
Strip off any characters past strip. Default is 79.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)