I would suggest creating a temp directory and copying a few files there before running the script below. (Just to make sure it does what you need it to do)
One other note: Run this from a different directory from where your files are, else it might try to modify itself.
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I need to find one string in all files and replace tht string with blank space and need to redirect all the files into the same directory again.
now i am using
find ./ -name "*.dmp" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/\\N//g' | sed 's/.$//g'
but now its not redirrecting properly .
its taking... (21 Replies)
Hi all-
I've got 2 files: One is the final results and one is a result set from a query.
In the final results files I have placeholder strings in there that need to be replaced by the corresponding strings from the query file.
So File#1 (FINAL RESULTS)
LINEID CLIENT ID REP ... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am very new to Linux and am trying to find a way for following problem.
I have a number of files in a folder as Export000.dat, Export001.dat ..and so on.
Each file has a string field 'Absolute velocity'. I want it to be replaced by 'Pixel shift' in all the files. I tried something like... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to remove the following string from several files.
<img heigth="1" width="1" border="0" src="http://myteenmovies.net/t.php?id=5540372">I'm using the following script
#!/bin/bash
# This script will search and replace all regular files for a string
# supplied by the user and... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
HP-UX oradev3 B.11.11 U 9000/800 3251073457
I have following files all contains text like "919642990137@". I need to search this text across all files and replace it with something like "919717298765@". I was wondering, how to accomplish this task?
cpmprod_status.sh... (8 Replies)
Hi there,
i got the following problem. i need a bash script to correct e-mail addresses in an csv. i got a huge csv like this
A B C D
heiner.holber.somewhere.ch heiner holber heiner.holber@somewhere.ch
So A is the wrong... (8 Replies)
What is the best way (bash/awk/sed?) to read in two text files and do a keyword search/replace?
file1.txt:
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Dallas
file2.txt:
I love Los Angeles.
Coming to Dallas was the right choice.
San Francisco is fun.
Go to Seattle in the summer.
... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have hundreds of files in which I need to change email address. Here is what I am trying to do:
1. All text files are in a directory "a"
2. In the text file, I want to replace email address for preparer. All these lines start with {{PreparerEmail and end with }}. The email... (3 Replies)
I have a bit of a complex problem that I would like to solve with awk. It is essentially a 2-part problem.
I have a large directory of files with the same format, each with 266 lines.
The first 206 lines of each file are filled with attribute information.
Then the following 60 lines consist... (4 Replies)
I am not sure how to search and replace the word in the few specific files.
I need to search and replace word in only the name containing pepsi in the filename. (12 Replies)