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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed usage Post 302365506 by Franklin52 on Tuesday 27th of October 2009 09:08:03 AM
Old 10-27-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by proactiveaditya
Thanks, it worked.
But i want to change the value of the string permanently.
Assuming you want to change the value of the variable:

Code:
string="Linux Cpu (EDF).sh" 
string=$(echo "$string" | sed 's/[ ()]//g')

Assuming the variable is a file and you want to rename the file:

Code:
string="Linux Cpu (EDF).sh" 
mv $string $(echo "$string" | sed 's/[ ()]//g')

 

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cfourcc

cfourcc(1)							   User Commands							cfourcc(1)

NAME

       cfourcc - tool for changing FourCC in Microsoft RIFF AVI files

SYNOPSIS

	 cfourcc [-i] <file.avi>
	 cfourcc -u <CODE> <file.avi>

OPTIONS

       -h  Show summary of options.

       -d CODE
	   Sets FOURCC codec decription string.

       -f  Force changing FOURCC on unsupported file

       -i  Display FOURCC information (default).

       -u CODE
	   Set FOURCC codec.

	   None.

DESCRIPTION

       Program identifies the codec used in AVI files (*.avi) and allows the user to change the FourCC description code (like fourcc-changer in
       Windows). Useful for people working with Microsoft AVI file. A Linux clone of AviC fourcc changer tool.

EXAMPLES

       Note that you only need to change the -u codec field most of the time and not touch the -d description:

	   cfourcc -u DIVX -d DIVX file.avi

ENVIRONMENT

       None.

FILES

       None.

SEE ALSO

       ffmpeg(1) mplayer(1)

AUTHORS

       cfourcc was written by Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail aka "mypapit" <info@mypapit.net>.

       This manual page was written by Jarno Elonen <elonen@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Updated by Jari Aalto
       <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit
       <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

cfourcc 							    2012-04-02								cfourcc(1)
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