I'm using sed to alter a parameter file used in another process. Basically, the file is a template containing a few variables which need to be replaced at runtime.
The problem is that using sed with filenames that contain the / character causes matches to fail.
eg:... (3 Replies)
I'm using sed to alter a parameter file used in another process. Basically, the file is a template containing a few variables which need to be replaced at runtime.
The problem is that using sed with filenames that contain the / character causes matches to fail.
I've tried doing an escaped... (2 Replies)
I am trying to pass a regular expression variable from a simple script to sed
to remove entries from a text file
e.g.
a='aaaa bbbb cccc ...|...:'
then executing sed from the script
sed s'/"'$a"'//g <$FILE > $FILE"_"1
my output file is always the same as the input file !!
any... (1 Reply)
Hi
Im trying to use sed to change some files which I'll describe here:
I want to use a regular expression to grab the <body> tag from a document. However, the <body> tag can look different so the regular expression used will take care of that and "include" all types of bodies, in example:... (4 Replies)
Ok, so I get that:
sed -n '/START/,/END/p' file
...will print every line from START to END inclusive, but I don't want to see START or END. Apart from the obious:
sed -n '/START/,/END/p' file | grep -v "START" | grep -v "END"
...is there a simpler way of doing this?
Thanks as always! (2 Replies)
I have a file that I'm trying to find all the cases of phone number extensions and deleting them. So input file looks like:
abc
x93825
def
13234
x52673
hello
output looks like:
abc
def
13234
hello
Basically delete lines that have 5 numbers following "x". I tried: x\(4) but it... (7 Replies)
I have a file, each line has the date and time twice, once at the start of the line, and again half way along. to neaten things up, and to make it easier to read i'm removing one set.
Wasn't as easy as identify the text and remove, as it'd remove both.
So i added some text at the beginning of... (4 Replies)
Linux 6.X environments (RHEL, Oracle Linux )
I could write basic shell scripts in bash.
In my spare time, I was planning to learn awk or sed to deal with regular expression tasks I have to deal with. But, I gather that python is gaining popularity these days and I came to know that python has a... (5 Replies)
I need to pick a part of string lets stay started with specific character and end with specific character to replace using sed command
the line is like this:my audio book 71-skhdfon1dufgjhgf8.wav'
I want to move the characters beginning with - end before.
I have different files with random... (2 Replies)
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taggrepper
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taggrepper - search and match tags of media file for regular expressions
SYNOPSIS
taggrepper [--tag-label regexp]... [--display-taglabel]... [FILE/DIRECTORY]...
DESCRIPTION
Perform a regular expression search on the tags of specified media files.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. All regular expressions are Perl Compatible Regular expressions
supported by the PCRE libraries. Note that all matches are ANDed, meaning that for a successful match, matches against all tags must occur.
Support exists for MP3 files, and, if compiled in, for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files as well.
-t, --title=REGEXP
Match the title tag against REGEXP
-a, --artist=REGEXP
Match the artist tag against REGEXP
-l, --album=REGEXP
Match the album, tag against REGEXP
-y, --year=REGEXP
Match the year tag against REGEXP
-g, --genre=REGEXP
Match the genre tag against REGEXP
-c, --comment=REGEXP
Match the comment tag against REGEXP
--track=REGEXP
Match the track tag against REGEXP
-c, --composer=REGEXP
Match the composer tag against REGEXP
-o, --orig-artist=REGEXP
Match the original artist tag against REGEXP
-c, --copyright=REGEXP
Match the copyright tag against REGEXP
-u, --url=REGEXP
Match the URL tag against REGEXP
-e, --encoded-by=REGEXP
Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP
--any-tag=REGEXP
Match the encoded-by tag against REGEXP. Using this option makes every one of the above options to be ignored
--display-title
display title tag of matching files
--display-artist
display artist tag of matching files
--display-album
display album tag of matching files
--display-year
display year tag of matching files
--display-genre
display genre tag of matching files
--display-comment
display comment tag of matching files
--display-track
display track tag of matching files
--display-composer
display composer tag of matching files
--display-orig-artist
display orig-artist tag of matching files
--display-copyright
display copyright tag of matching files
--display-url
display url tag of matching files
--display-encoded-by
display encoded-by tag of matching files
-0, --print0,
Use null character as delimiter. This option can be used with -0 option of xargs.
-r, --recursive
Search directories recursively
-v, --version
Display version and exit
-h, --help
Display this help message
All regular expressions are PCRE regular expressions. Refer to the PCRE documentation for details. Report comments and bugs to
a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in
COPYING
Copyright (C) Kumar Appaiah
License: BSD License (see COPYING file in the distribution tarball for details)
This program is free software; you can distribute it under the terms of the BSD License. See the file COPYING in the tarball, or
/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD on Debian-based systems.
SEE ALSO pcre(3)taggrepper 0.01 July 2009 TAGGREPPER(1)