My question is how would I substitute for ceratain number of occurences in a line? If this is my input
Is it possible to change the first 3 occurences of space " " to a comma?
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 01-06-2010 at 03:10 AM..
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I know in vi you can do
:%s/replaceme/withthis/
but if i want to find all lines say without a # at the begining and I want to put it in how would that command be formatted? I can't figure it out for the life of me.
#comment
blah1
hey1
grrr1
#comment
#blah1
#hey1
#grrr1 (5 Replies)
Can anyone tell me what is the purpose of a substitute variable in the unix programming language and give an example where it may be used?
Thanks! (0 Replies)
hi!
first i want to apologize for two things. my English and (possible) posting in the wrong sub forum (i couldn't find one that fits my question)
I am needing a script that can substitute rm.
the idea is that the operator can/must delete some folders and files from time to time, when the free... (2 Replies)
i'm writing a script that will extract and substitute a certain part of a data.
i'm having trouble with the substituting part ...
Here's my data looks like:
01/01/08-001-23:46:18-01/01/08-23:50:43
01/01/08-003-23:45:19-01/01/08-23:55:49
01/01/08-005-23:52:18-01/01/08-23:58:52
i want to... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have query terms like this:
a) apple bannana
b) apple bannana AND chickko
c) "milk shake" OR Graphes orange
whereever there is space substitue with AND operator.
I tried like this: (2 Replies)
correct file names are:
*_0.txt
*_1.txt
incorrect file names are:
*_12.txt
*_0123.txt
*_04321.txt
all files that are incorrect need to replace the ending with *_1.txt
therefore need to create a loop to find the wrong files in a dir ->that dont end in _1.txt or _0.txt and then... (3 Replies)
I usually use :
Code:
awk '{gsub(/xxx/,"yyy");print}'
to substitute xxx with yyy.
I have a problem substitute an expression like
Code:
x ' y
Because of the ( ' )
Any idea on how to get over this problem?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi there,
i am updating a file on UNIX and have many lines as per below :
listen:x:37:4:Network Admin:/usr/net/nls:
i would like to substitute from the :/usr to the end of the line.
so at the moment im using this :
:s/"\/$/ /g
but i get an error.can anyone help?
thank you (3 Replies)
I have to parse ASCII files, output the relevant data to a comma-delimited file and load it into a database table.
The specs for the file format have been recently updated and one section is causing problems. This is the original layout for that section.
... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a shell script where with the lines below:
echo "${v_sd_dateTime},${RUN_QUEUE_SIZE},${LOAD_AVERAGE},${v_sd_load_list},${v_sd_thread_count_list}" >> ${v_sd_file}
Format of the output :
01/05/2005 08:00:00, RUN_QUEUE_SIZE, LOAD_AVG, CPU_PROD1, CPU_PROD2, THREADS_PROD1,... (1 Reply)
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*/
NAME
strgsub - substitute all occurences of pattern with another string
SYNOPSIS
#include <publib.h>
int strgsub(char *str, const char *pat, const char *sub, size_t max);
DESCRIPTION
strgsub finds all occurences of the pattern pat in the string str (using a method similar to strstr(3) to find the occurrences, i.e., no
regular expressions), and replaces each with sub. If pat does not occur in str, no substitution is made. The size (including the terminat-
ing '