No clue. I just went by the description of the 'c' command in the man page, where it's indicated as
as opposed to
and tried it on one of our HP-UX machines (where sed complained if the newline wasn't there)
My guess would be that this was originally intended to preserve any whitespace at the start of the replacement text that otherwise might be ignored by the tokenizer.
Hi,
How can i use sed command to modify a part of a variable containing "/" by another containing "/" like describe below:
VAR="/app/share/eai"
VAR1="/app/share"
VAR2="/data/test"
echo $VAR | sed 's/... ??? # using sed to replace $VAR1 in $VAR by $VAR2 ? (4 Replies)
I have one File named "txt_file"
# cat txt_file
<DBType>RT</DBType>
<AppType>RT</AppType>
--------------------------------------------------
I want replace "<AppType>RT</AppType>" to
<AppType>XY</AppType> in txt_file and output redirect to Newfile
... (2 Replies)
I always kind of wondered this but I have a variable that I want to use in a search and replace. Basically I want to search a file for the string in my variable and replace it with something fixed but I'm unsure of the variable rule in sed. Here's generally what I have:
sed 's/$name/newname/g'... (15 Replies)
Hi,
Could anyone clearly explain me the below sed construct in detail to get to know what it actually does?
sed 's/\(* *\)//4'
echo 'test;10;20' | sed 's/*;\(*\)/\1/' (1 Reply)
Thanks to this forum I have managed to work out a solution to my problem and actually understand most of it, but one thing is confusing me and I am sure someone here can explain.
I need to insert a piece of txt into a file. This txt is
awk '{ sub(/$/,"\r"); print }' $JCL_WBB50103_EFTOUT >... (2 Replies)
<tr><td width=10% style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>Package</b></td><td width=10% valign=center style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>JTs</b></td>
This is got to be simple. I run this on the above .html file:
sed... (8 Replies)
Hi,
In the following excerpt of shell script code: I could not understand the sed syntax. Could anyone shed some light on this?
configure_ssl()
{
jboss_conf_file=$1
echo "Configuring SSL for -" ${jboss_conf_file}
isSSLSetup=`echo cat ${jboss_conf_file} | grep <Connector... (2 Replies)
Greetings!
Have a quick question for the community today; this time looking at a nifty little sed puzzle ;)
Consider the following file content to be worked through:What needs to happen is theblock should be removed up to and including the following blank line, leavingI have bits and pieces... (8 Replies)
Dear all,
I need help, again.
I would like to use a sed on a for. Is is possible to ask sed to call a file in the syntax?
For exemple:
sed "/Y/ s/number/X/" test_imput > test_output
where Y is a file which inside there is one pattern only; Also X is a file with one... (6 Replies)
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unix2dos
unix2dos(1) General Commands Manual unix2dos(1)NAME
unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
unix2dos [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents unix2dos, the program that converts text files in UNIX format to DOS format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates unix2dos under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
unix2dos
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
unix2dos a.txt b.txt
unix2dos -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.
unix2dos a.txt -c iso b.txt
unix2dos -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
unix2dos -k a.txt
unix2dos -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
unix2dos -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
unix2dos -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
unix2dos a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
unix2dos -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
unix2dos -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHOR
Benjamin Lin - ( blin@socs.uts.edu.au )
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO dos2unix(1)1995.03.31 unix2dos v2.2 unix2dos(1)