1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all! Here is my problem : I have a string like the following : 20030613170404;BAN_CAV ; starting script Loader.sh on ; 13/06/2003 at ; 17;04;03 I want to eraze all characters located after "Loader.sh", because there are unuseful. I tried to use sed...but it didnt work....i guess i... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi There! I have the following string which i need to convert to i.e. between each occurence of the delimiter ('|' in this case), i need to delete all characters from the '|' to the ':' so that |10,9:12/xxx| becomes |12/xxx| How can i do this using sed? Thanks in advance! (13 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i have a file which contains 2 lines, line 1 is static data. line 2 is a very large string(over 3000char or much more). in that string are tags which i want to delete. e.g. <order1>123</order1><tag1>data</tag1><new>1</new><order2>124</order2><tag1>data</tag1> all one one line. now i... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I would like to batch delete the "note" entry from bib files. The start would be defined by "note ={" and the end by "}." (see example bib entry below). I tried the following command which does not have any effect: cat input.bib| sed -e 's/note = {.*}.//' > output.bib Any help would... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I need to delete all text between "|" delimiters. The line in text file typically looks like this: 1014182| 13728 -rw-r--r-- 1 imac1 staff 7026127 2 okt 2010 |/Users/imac1/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Various Artists/We Are the World_ U.S.A. for Africa/01 We Are the World.mp3... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Please help me to refine my syntax. I want to delete the excess characters from the out put below. -bash-3.00$ top -b -n2 -d 00.20 |grep Cpu|tail -1 | awk -F ":" '{ print $2 }' | cut -d, -f1 4.4% us now i want to delete the % and us. How wil i do that to make it just 4.4. Thanks (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I want to delete all lines with given string in file1 and the string val is dynamic. Can this be done using sed command. Sample: vars="test twinning yellow" for i in $vars do grep $i file1 if then echo "Do Nothing" else sed `/$i/d` file1 fi done Using the above... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to change/delete all occurences of a multiline text in a file which match the specific pattern: aaa <This text should be changed>bbb ccc ddddddd eee<This text should be changed> fff gggggg hhh<This text should be deleted> iii jjjj kkkkk<This text should be... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need that a certain part of the content below excluded ==Image Gallery== followed by <gallery> and the content until </gallery> test SED1 ==Image Gallery== <gallery> Image:car1.jpg| Car 1¹ Imagem: car2.jpg| Car2² </gallery> test SED2 ==Image... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I try to replace a string of characters in a file (MyFile.txt) by a multiline value of the variable "Myvar": $ cat MyFile.txt DESCRIPTION '@TargetTable SCHEMA' ( @InputFlowDef ); $ The content of Myvar: $ echo "$Myvar" col1 , col2 , col3 $ (4 Replies)