Hi I need to add a comment line at the begining of a text file. The scenario is given below.
1. The number of servers that needs to be updated is around 80
2. The location of the text file in all the servers are the same including the file name.
3. The comment has to be added at the very... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to replace a specific line in a text (eg the line contains the word MYSERVER) with a number of lines (let's say 4) in which the word MYSERVER will be replaced with
server1 in the first line
server2 in the second line
server3 in the 3rd line
server4 in the 4th line
The original... (1 Reply)
hi all,
i am new bee to Unix.
i know how to replace text for range of lines in vi
for e.g. replace | with |||| for line 4 through 7 using vi
: 4,7s/|/||||/g
but i have to replace | with |||| only for line no 4, 7 and 10 using vi only!!!
your help will be appreciated!
thanks,... (4 Replies)
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.
I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)
I need to comment the lines starting with pattern "exclude" or "exclude=". If the work exclude comes at any other part, ignore it. Also, ignore, excludes, excluded etc. Ie only comment the line starting with exclude.
File contents.
exclude
exclude=
hi I am excluded
excludes
excludes=
... (9 Replies)
my requirement is,
consider a file output
cat output
blah sdjfhjkd jsdfhjksdh
sdfs 23423 sdfsdf sdf"sdfsdf"sdfsdf"""""dsf
hellow there
this doesnt look good
et cetc etc
etcetera
i want to replace a line of line number 4 ("this doesnt look good") with some other line
... (3 Replies)
I have a file which requires modification via a shell script.
Need to do the following: 0. take input from user for new text. 1. search for a keyword in the file. 2. replace the line next to this to this keyword with user supplied input.
for e.g., my file has the following text:
(some... (7 Replies)
Have multiple files with the same format and certain text is the same. Have specific text to search for and then need to replace the next line. Can search on the text DEVICE and multiple lines will be found. The line after each DEVICE line has {. Want to replace the line { with {-someadditiontext.... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have some code that works more or less. This is called by a make file to adjust some hard-coded definitions in the src code. The script generated some values by looking at some of the src files and then writes those values to specific locations in other files. The awk code is used to... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: LMHmedchem
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
hal-find-by-property
HAL-FIND-BY-PROPERTY(1) General Commands Manual HAL-FIND-BY-PROPERTY(1)NAME
hal-find-by-property - find device objects by property matching
SYNOPSIS
hal-find-by-property [options]
DESCRIPTION
hal-get-property finds device object in the HAL device database by looking at device properties. For more information about both the big
picture and specific HAL properties, refer to the HAL spec which can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/hal/spec/hal-spec.html depending
on the distribution.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--key The name of the property.
--string
String value of the property
--verbose
Verbose output.
--help Print out usage.
--version
Print the version.
RETURN VALUE
If devices matching the given property are found each UDI (Unique Device Identifier) is printed on stdout and the program exits with exit
code 0. If no devices are found or an error occured, the program exits with a non-zero exit code.
BUGS
Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the HAL mailing list, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal on how to
subscribe.
SEE ALSO hald(8), lshal(1), hal-set-property(1), hal-get-property(1), hal-find-by-capability(1), dbus-send(1)AUTHOR
Written by David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> with a lot of help from many others.
HAL-FIND-BY-PROPERTY(1)
05-21-2009
