Hi,
I need to insert a line into a file underneath an existing line in the file, but am unsure as to the syntax. I'm pretty sure sed can be used though, although any ideas are more than welcome. For example:
File
----
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 6
I need to say: Insert "Line 5"... (1 Reply)
Could someone tell me how to replace varibles using SED inside Korn Shell?
e.g. I have a ksh file program.ksh below:
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#!/bin/ksh
sed -n '/ABC/p' $1 > output.txt
if ]
then
status=new
elif ]
then
status=old
fi
sed -n '/$status/p' $1... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
i have one file and in that i have to read each line and do some replacement.
its is not fixed the number or column always be same it can be less also
exm
a;b;c;d;e;f (line)
i have to do something like
In the line
If c is present
then
go to end of line and append ';date'
else... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file in a form of
jkkhjjk1:!:jkhdjkhjkh2:!:kljkljkljklj3:!:kljsdj4
kljlkfljf5:!:kjljljlj6:!:jhjkhjkh7
I am trying to use sed command such that everytime it find ":!:" it will removes it and print remaining of the line on the new line
Output that I need will look like following... (8 Replies)
I am trying to retrieve part of a line from /boot/grub/menu.lst
The line is :
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/pclinuxblue/boot/message
I have figured out how to get this line into a file by itself.
sed '/gfxmenu/ !d' /boot/grub/menu.lst > /tmp/menu.lst.pcl_tc
What I need to... (2 Replies)
Hi All ,
I have a input file which has set of lines like this ::
cat a.txt
unix1 djkdfkjdkkdfkdjfdfkjd 09191091 unix@unix.com <2008-23-07>
unix 2 dfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfd
unix3 dfldfljdflkjdfldfkljdfldjfl 0565606 unix1@unix.com <2008-10-09>
unix4 dfdlfndfldflnlffddfd
for some... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to process one file which looks like this :
09-04-16-17:11:53 -> count 1
NAME CHAN QID NMSGS NBYTES MAXBYTES P/T
W_DEALNUM 105 123508770 1 10 14 P
W_APPSTAT 106 123508771 1 12 35 P... (8 Replies)
Hello!
I have a "problem" with sed... In a log, I'm wondering how to have the name of the application when "INCIDENT" is in the file...
The name of the application is before "INCIDENT".
For this example, The result should be "SPVP0005"
thanks for your help! (7 Replies)
I have file with following contents;
127.0.0.1 www.google.com
127.3.3.1 www.cisco.com
127.3.5.1 www.msnbc.com
I want output as
127.0.0.1 www.google.com google.com
127.3.3.1 www.cisco.com cisco.com
127.3.5.1 www.msnbc.com msnbc.com
I tried
sed 's/www.//g'... (5 Replies)
I want to search texts between first occurence of the matching pattern and replace it with some other text.pls advice what can be done. I searched alot, i could not find anything relevant.
Ex my input is as follows:
red
yellow
grey
white
blue
red
pink
violet
white
I want to search... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: sangitajc
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)