It's known as "greedy matching". The regular expression will always try and match the biggest string that satisfies the specified pattern, which in your case includes the embedded space.
In Perl, you can specify "non greedy" matching by following the * with a ?.
I think you could also have done...
...to isolate the datestamp.
I AM TRYING TO APPEND THE HOSTNAME OF A UNIX SERVER I WORK WITH SO I COULD DO A LOADING INTO A DATABASE.
THE COMMAND I AM USING IS
df -k | sed 's/^/dataserver /'
What I intend to do is append the hostname dynamically by using the hostname command instead of having to manually enter... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
echo "07/05/2008" | sed 's/\(..\)\/\(..\)\/\(..\)/\3\2\1/'
Output :: 20050708
Expected output is 20080507
Iam not getting the bug in this.
Thanks for the help
-- penchal (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have to use SED to remove the prefix "219-" from a text file containing phone numbers and I have to remove the ":" as well. I write the following code but it does not seem to work. Can someone help me please?
mohit@mohit-desktop:~$ sed -n s/219-/" "/p corp_phones_bak > noprefix1... (2 Replies)
Hi All!
I am trying to use shell variables in a sed statement, but facing an error.I used the double quotes instead if single quotes in the sed statement.
# sed -i -e "s/password/$decoded/g;" $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml
sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command
#
... (5 Replies)
I have a file with a lot of numbers in it and I need to clean it up and make it look nice and proper. I found this little gem of a one-liner and basically understand what it is doing but I would like to further understand what each part of the command is doing. Being a newb, I am just trying to... (2 Replies)
Hi all
In input file I have records like this:
0,1,0,87,0,0,"6,87","170,03",0,"43,5",0,0,0,0,"6,87","126,53"and in output file I need that these records transforms in :
0 1 0 87 0 0 6,87 170,03 0 43,5 0 0 0 0 6,87 126,53
Could you help me in this case? Please (3 Replies)
Hi
i am stuck with a very silly problem :mad:
below is my code
echo 201010_1212_121.xml
i need to replace xml with csv so i did
echo 201010_1212_121.xml | sed 's/.*\.xml/.*\.csv/'
echo 201010_1212_121.xml | sed 's/*.xml/*.csv/'
echo 201010_1212_121.xml |... (4 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I want to replace these numbers with words as the following:
$echo 1 11 223
I want to replace each number with it name (e.g. "1" replaced with "one", etc.) just to determine how sed works in such case. Thanks in advance:).
Leo (8 Replies)
I don't know if you guys get this problem sometimes at Terminal but I had been having this problem since yesterday :( Maybe I overdid the Terminal. Even the codes that used to work doesn't work anymore.
Here is what 's happening:
* I wanted to remove lines containing digits so I used this... (25 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nexeu
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libbash
LIBBASH(7) libbash Manual LIBBASH(7)NAME
libbash -- A bash shared libraries package.
DESCRIPTION
libbash is a package that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries. Actually its a tool for managing bash scripts whose functions you may
want to load and use in scripts of your own.
It contains a 'dynamic loader' for the shared libraries ( ldbash(1)), a configuration tool (ldbashconfig(8)), and some libraries.
Using ldbash(1) you are able to load loadable bash libraries, such as getopts(1) and hashstash(1). A bash shared library that can be loaded
using
ldbash(1) must answer 4 requirments:
1. It must be installed in $LIBBASH_PREFIX/lib/bash (default is /usr/lib/bash).
2. It must contain a line that begins with '#EXPORT='. That line will contain (after the '=') a list of functions that the library
exports. I.e. all the function that will be usable after loading that library will be listed in that line.
3. It must contain a line that begins with '#REQUIRE='. That line will contain (after the '=') a list of bash libraries that are
required for our library. I.e. every bash library that is in use in our bash library must be listed there.
4. The library must be listed (For more information, see ldbashconfig(8)).
Basic guidelines for writing library of your own:
1. Be aware, that your library will be actually sourced. So, basically, it should contain (i.e define) only functions.
2. Try to declare all variables intended for internal use as local.
3. Global variables and functions that are intended for internal use (i.e are not defined in '#EXPORT=') should begin with:
__<library_name>_
For example, internal function myfoosort of hashstash library should be named as
__hashstash_myfoosort
This helps to avoid conflicts in global name space when using libraries that come from different vendors.
4. See html manual for full version of this guide.
AUTHORS
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