Your first example should work using the <> to define a "word" but only with GNU sed or GNU awk and similar enhanced SEDs and AWKs. There are SEDs and AWKs out there that have a not as broad understanding of regular expressions like the modern GNU versions.
On most Linux boxes your line should work flawless.
Afaik you will have to emulate the <word> RegExp behaviour like reddybs posted. Only thing I see is it could be written so sed is called only once, but I would go with that too, example:
Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem.
I have a text file that contains lines like this:
78 ANGELO -809.05
79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06
I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's
78 ANGELO xxxxxxx
79... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Let me explain the situation.
There are many files in a directory and its sub-directories that conatin the string pattern "pa". I want to replace all such instances with the pattern "pranavagarwal"
doing a
grep "pa" `ls`
does give me all the instances of the occurence of that... (3 Replies)
Hi,
What should be the syntax to match and replace an exact string using sed? And not replacing any string that contain the value?
Eg.
testtest
etstetst
testetst
testtttt
etsttest
testtesttest
testtest
I only want to replace the line with exact string "testtest" with "123456"
... (2 Replies)
Hey everybody. I've got a simple problem but am unsure how to resolve it. I am using a script to edit multiple files at once. Inside the script I am using an sed command to make the changes. My problem is that I can only get it to work for stings that contain a word or words. How can I modify it to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to use the regex in the replacement string in SED command.
something like
sed -e ' s/\(^\{5\}\).\{150\}\(.*\)$/\10\{30\}1\{30\}A\{60\}B\{30\}\2/' abc
which means for all the lines in file abc that starts with 5 characters, I need to replace character 6-151... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to replace the variable in the file after the particular match string. It is being replaced if i hardcode the value and with use of "&" with sed.
sed -e "s/URL./& http:\\localhost:7223/g"
But when am trying to pass the variable it is failing. I tried multiple... (9 Replies)
Dear Unix Forum Group Members,
Please do let me know how I can replace the double pipe with single pipe recursively on single record.
Sample Input Data:
DN set|Call prefix||| Called number address nature
0||| *789|||||||ALL number types
0||| 00||||||||ALL number types
10||... (5 Replies)
I want to replace a string by contents of file.
I am trying the following sed command:
cat sample | sed "s^<enter description here>^`cat details`^"
But it is not working.
a=`cat details` and using $a will not help since it will affect the whitespaces.
What am I missing in the above sed... (5 Replies)
Hello,
Just surfed on the web for probable answers but could not get them working.
I wish to replace the string containing spaces by another phrase but below answers did not work.
My string is:
PAIN & GAIN
I wish to convert it to:
P&G
I just need it working with sed with function -i
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