sed might not be the best tool here. However, GNU sed might work for you. Put all your substitutions, one line each, in "file2". And run sed on file1. Note, the newline in the middle of the sed script is necessary:
I have a gut feeling that the OP cannot predict what rows will be 'missing'. So gut is telling me the OP wants to derive the value of the missing row from the previous row value. In which case we'll have to know if the sample file is representative of the 'real life' data and what (if any) assumptions can be made regarding the data itself.
Alright, I think I know what I am doing with sed(which probably means I don't). But I cant figure out how to replace just the first occurance of a string. I have tried sed, ed, and grep but can't seem to figure it out. If you have any suggestions I am open to anything! (3 Replies)
hi
i have one file where i want to substitute only first instance of
swap
with swap1
i want to replcae only first instance of swap in my script
i know we can do this with awk. but i need to do this with sed only
i tried follwoing code
sed 's/swap/swap1' filename
but here all... (15 Replies)
I have an input text that looks like this (comes already sorted):
on Caturday 22 at 10:15, some event
on Caturday 22 at 10:15, some other event
on Caturday 22 at 21:30, even more events
on Funday 23 at 11:00, yet another event
I need to delete all the matching words between the lines, from... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Here is my piece of code used with sed in shell script:
sed -i '/<falsemodule-option>/ a\<LdapLogin>' myxmlfile
The problem that i am facing with the above is that in 'myxml' file i have mulitple instances of <falsemodule-option>
so when i execute the above sed command, it is appending... (10 Replies)
I need to reduce a file's size below 50MB by deleting chucks of text. The following sed does this.
sed '/^begpattern/,/endpattern/d' myfile
However, it's possible that the file size can get below 50MB by just deleting the first instance of the pattern. How do I code that into sed?
Or can awk... (8 Replies)
I was told a way to do this with awk earlier today but is there a way with sed to specify the last instance of a character on a line?
You will know what character you're looking for but there could be none or one hundred instances of it on a line say and you ONLY want to specify the last one for... (3 Replies)
The following text is in testFile.txt:
one 5
two 10
three 15
four 20
five 25
six 10
seven 35
eight 10
nine 45
ten 50
I'd like to use sed to print the first occurance of search pattern /10/ in a given range. This command is to be run against large log files, so to optimize efficiency,... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and also relatively new to sed and other such wonderfully epic tools.
I'm attempting to grab a section of text between two words, but it seems to match all instances of the range instead of stopping at just the first.
This occurs when I use:
sed -n... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lazarix
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diff3
diff3(1) General Commands Manual diff3(1)Name
diff3 - 3-way differential file comparison
Syntax
diff3 [-ex3] file1 file2 file3
Description
The command compares three versions of a file, and publishes the ranges of text that disagree, flagged with the following codes:
==== all three files differ
====1 file1 is different
====2 file2 is different
====3 file3 is different
The type of change needed to convert a given range of a given file to some other is indicated in one of these ways:
f : n1 a Text is to be appended after line number n1 in file f, where f = 1, 2, or 3.
f : n1 , n2 c
Text is to be changed in the range line n1 to line n2. If n1 = n2, the range may be abbreviated to n1.
The original contents of the range follows immediately after a c indication. When the contents of two files are identical, the contents of
the lower-numbered file is suppressed.
Options-3 Produces an editor script containing the changes between file1 and file2 that are to be incorporated into file3.
-e Produces an editor script containing the changes between file2 and file3 that are to be incorporated into file1.
-x Produces an editor script containing the changes among all three files.
Examples
Under the -e option, publishes a script for the editor that incorporates into file1 all changes between file2 and file3 - that is, the
changes that would normally be flagged ==== and ====3. Option -x (-3) produces a script to incorporate only changes flagged ==== (====3).
The following command applies the resulting script to `file1':
(cat script; echo '1,$p') | ed - file1
Restrictions
Text lines that consist of a single `.' defeat -e.
Files
/tmp/d3?????
/usr/lib/diff3
See Alsocmp(1), comm(1), diff(1), dffmk(1), join(1), sccsdiff(1), uniq(1)diff3(1)