I have always had a question about find and replace in Vi. As this uses Vi, sed, and RegEx I never knew how or where to post the question but I thought I would give it a shot here. Say I have a text file filled with the following:
Now say I want to change it to:
I am not sure how to add the " for today" bit without deleting the rest of the line.
The following RegEx is as far as I can take it. The "???" marks the spot where I need help.
I have seen some use of a $1 variable but I haven't had much luck with it. Would anybody be kind enough to clue me in to the secret?
Hello all -
I've searched this forum, but was unable to find out the info I need.
I'm trying to mount (nfs mount) a directory on another box from my Linux machine.
The mount point resides on a Tru64 digital unix machine. The machine trying to do the mount is a Linux machine (redhat 8.0).
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I have a file "dbshot.xml" that contains lines that need replacing in a batch format but the parameters are based on two lines.
Ex.
<role roletype="01">
<status>1
needs to be changed to
<role roletype="01">
<status>0
I can't use simply "<status>1" replace since the... (2 Replies)
the command "nawk" returns the error command cannot be found in my unix system.
Is there a specific library i need to have to use this command?
I tried, the whereis command and it returns nothing.
if there is nothing to do, what command can i use to replace this nawk command?
Appreciate some... (4 Replies)
I got a sample file like this.
$ cat test
12|13|100|s
12|13|100|s
100|13|100|s
12|13|100|s
I want to replace all 100 by 2000 only in 3rd field using "awk"
This is replacing all 100's :-(
$ awk -F "|" '{gsub( /100/,"2000");print}' test
12|13|2000|s
12|13|2000|s
2000|13|2000|s... (5 Replies)
Hello guys,
In my script, I need to add two other routines where I Manipulate the files with a 'x'
The routine looks at CLI named qip-getobjectprof that references a input file named hosts_list.txt
Then I use the CLI named qip-setobject to set the orignal name with an 'x'and move the... (3 Replies)
We have year folder say in a path /opt/informat/Archive a folder 2012.
And in the same folder /opt/informat/Archive we have different folders month based, like 201210, 201211, 201212, this have data for each month, ie files. Now time to time i need to move the monthly folders to the main folder... (1 Reply)