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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed scripting, match text within line and replace Post 302342783 by boolean2222 on Monday 10th of August 2009 06:24:59 PM
Old 08-10-2009
Sed scripting, match text within line and replace
New to sed...
Have a file foo.txt (below).
Need to replace text on 2 lines, but can only feed sed the first few characters of each line (all lines are unique).
So, in my example, I have put '$' in place of what I need to figure out how to feed the whole line.

What I have thus far:
Code:
sed -e 's/LA$/LA=2345/g' -e 's/LA1$/LA1=7789' foo.txt

foo.txt:
Code:
LA=1234
LA1=23456
LA2=1987

Thanks, this board is wonderful.
Yes, I do search before posting.

---------- Post updated at 06:24 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:12 PM ----------

May have answered my own question...

Code:
sed -e 's/LA=[a-zA-Z0-9]/LA=2345/g' -e 's/LA1=[a-zA-Z0-9]
/LA1=7789' foo.txt

Best way?

May be characters after, so that is why I did the a-z and A-Z.
Last edited by boolean2222; 08-10-2009 at 07:25 PM.. Reason: forgot '=' sign
 

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