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The above sed script works only for the line containing only 1x font tag pairs. It looks to me that sed only finds the longest match on the line. For the lines containing more than one font tag pairs, my sed script doesn't work. It deletes some useful data on the line. What am I missing?
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As far as I know, sed doesn't support RE's non-greedy match ..., try a different tool that supports it:
Hello,
I am hoping someone can provide some guidance on using context based search and replace to search for a pattern and then do a search and replace in the line that follows it. For example, I have a file that looks like this:
<bold>bold text
</italic>
somecontent
morecontent... (3 Replies)
Hi
This is what I was trying to do, comment one line and add something different in a new line right next.
This is the command I want to do
more .profile | sed 's,STRING1, #STRING1 NEWLINE STRING2,'
(I´m using ',' because my string is something like this
exec... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file and in that, I want to search for a aprticular word and then replace another word in the same line with something else.
Example: In file abc.txt, there is a line
<host oa_var="s_hostname">test</host>
I want to search with s_hostname text and then replace test with... (2 Replies)
Hi there!
I am really enjoying working with sed. I am trying to come up with a sed command to replace some occurrences (not all) in the same line, for instance:
I have a command which the output will be:
200.300.400.5 0A 0B 0C 01 02 03
being that the last 6 strings are actually one... (7 Replies)
Hi guys,
got a problem here with sed on the command line.
If i have a string as below:
online xx:wer:xcv: sdf:/asdf/http:https-asdfd
How can i match the pattern "http:" and replace the start of the string to the pattern with null?
I tried the following but it doesn't work:
... (3 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to search and replace a multi line pattern in a php file using awk.
The pattern starts with
<div id="navbar">
and ends with
</div>
and spans over an unknown number of lines.
I need the command to be a one liner.
I use the "record separator" like this :
awk -v... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am have one file with a line
group=project_live
I need to replace it with line
group=project_live_support
before I execute some application related script.
The potentianl problem is when I replace this with sed using command
sed... (2 Replies)
Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted!
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
I have file which has got the following content
sam 123 LD 41
sam 234 kp
sam LD 41
kam pu
sam LD 61
Now... (1 Reply)
I have a log file that contains many lines but contains the following line three times:
related_pin : "t_bypass";
Here are the 3 occurrences and the two lines after from my file.txt:
related_pin : "t_bypass";
sdf_cond : "rstq_b";
timing_sense : negative_unate;
... (6 Replies)
All, I appreciate any help you can offer here as this is well beyond my grasp of awk/sed...
I have an input file similar to:
&LOG
&LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021855/--F"
&LOG
&LOG
&LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021852/--F"
&LOG Cloning_Action: RETAIN
&LOG Part: "@DB/TCCP000010713/--A"
&LOG
&LOG... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: KarmaPoliceT2
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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)