He was asking if you can use sed to match a pattern you want to replace within a restricted range of characters in a string. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
He wanted to change: -
to: -
But I don't want a generic match that matches the whole line, just that range highlighted in blue. Is it possible to do this using sed?
putting tools to use aside, let's think logically. if you want to replace position 28 to 33, then print from position 1 to 27, then print the new replacement, then print from 34 onwards...
pseudocode:
no need to think of any regex.
MSG="THERE WERE XX RECORDS IN ERROR TABLE,AAAA, WHEN LOADING THE BBBB TABLE WITH EXTRACT FROM CCCC INTO TABLES FOR , DATABASE DDDD."
echo "$MSG" > /tmp/mplanmsg.$$.out
I wan to replace XX with the content in $recordXX
cat /tmp/mplanmsg.$$.out|sed 's/XX/\$recordXX/g'| sed... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file which contains a word like ravi and ravi30.
i want to replace only the word ravi with xxx for that i am using the below sed command
sed -e 's/ravi/xxx/g' .
but the above command out put is xxx and xxx30 but i dont need to change ravi30
please guide me how to proceed.... (4 Replies)
All,
I have the following file:
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#
# /etc/pam.d/common-password - password-related modules common to all services
#
# This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files,
# and should contain a list of modules that define the services... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
if I have the following piece (repeating) of text within a file and I wish to delete it via sed
a
b
c
d
e
<tr>
<td><img alt="" height="1" width="3" src="/testweb/view/browser/images/shim.gif"></td><td><img alt="" height="1" ... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I have the following lines in a file
<address location="test"
ConnectionName="test" />
I want to replace the above lines by
<address location="test123" />
I am usind SED and not able to remove the new line characters between the two lines.
Can anyone please help... (4 Replies)
I have a bunch of conf files, that contain the fully qualified names of servers. I would like to be able to use some sort of pattern matching with sed or vi, or whatever, to pull out the fully qualified server names, and dump them in a file.
It just needs to work across several unix os. So, I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
i have data file like:
START1
a
b
STOP
c
d
START2
e
STOP
f
START3
g
STOP
When one of the START<count> variable is passed, i should print all lines matching this until the first 'STOP'
for example if 'START2' is provided for match, i should get the result as:
START2 (1 Reply)
'Hi
I'm using the following code to extract the lines(and redirect them to a txt file) after the pattern match. But the output is inclusive of the line with pattern match.
Which option is to be used to exclude the line containing the pattern?
sed -n '/Conn.*User/,$p' > consumers.txt (11 Replies)