Inserting text to file, sed and variable not acting right
I want to put text stored in a variable into a file on the 7th line. I'm having trouble with this line:
It works perfectly for a single word, but fails if there are two words because of the space. I've tried several forms of quoting and this is the only one that (semi)works. I've been using "echo $text" after this line while testing to ensure there's nothing wrong with the text in the variable.
Hi,
I have tried to develop a sed script that inserts date and time in the third field in the first and second row below. The third row is an example and it shows where the date and time should be inserted. The script should check if the row already has date and time in the third field and if it... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I have a file called football where i have a list of 11 players each on different lines.
I wish to add a name of another player on the first line.
I have created a file called footballscript in vi writing the following sed command to achieve this ...
cat football | sed -e '1 i\... (4 Replies)
I am in a dire need of doing this job , please help from shell script or perl script. It will be highly appreciated.
Please have a look at the following INPUT file;
The first 14 rows are not of interest but I want them to be included in the output file as they are. From the row 14... (3 Replies)
Hello
Can somebody please help me with the following script?
I'm trying to create a text file with 20 blank lines and then insert a string in line 2 but nothing is printed in the itxtfile. I can create the file with 20 blank lines but when I "tell" it to print something on the second line, it... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Im working on this problem for 3 days now and i just cant get it to work.. I tried with alot of different sed methods but didnt find any solution. Its proberly verry simple but i just started bash scripting for a month or so..
i have a file called: file.nfo and file.txt
the content... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need to insert @test.com after each entry in my .txt file.
1
2
3
4
1@test.com
2@test.com
3@test.com
4@test.com
Tried to use
cat test.txt |sed 's/$/@test.com/'but it does this instead:
1
@test.com
2 (6 Replies)
I have a tab delimited text file with multiple columns (data.txt). I would like to insert a column into the text file. The column I want to insert is in a text file (column.txt). I want to insert it into the 5th column of data.txt. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to create a file and then insert some text into it. I'm trying to create a .sh script that will create a new python file from a template.
Can someone tell me why this won't work,
touch $1 | sed -e '1i\Some test code here'
Sorry I'm quite new to all this!
Just as a side... (3 Replies)
I need to insert text from one file into another file after specific term. I guess sed is the best method of doing this and I can insert a specified text string using this script but I am not sure how to modify it to insert text from another file:
#!/bin/sh
sed 's/\<VirtualHost... (17 Replies)
Hello,
I've been trying to get a script working that fetches weather-data and converts it into an .ics file. The script works so far put I'm stuck at the point where I need to add specific static data. A thorough search through the forum did not point me into the right direction.
#!/bin/bash... (3 Replies)
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pbmtext
pbmtext(1) General Commands Manual pbmtext(1)NAME
pbmtext - render text into a bitmap
SYNOPSIS
pbmtext [-font fontfile] [-builtin fontname] [-space pixels] [-lspace pixels] [text]
DESCRIPTION
Takes the specified text, either a single line from the command line or multiple lines from standard input, and renders it into a bitmap.
In the bitmap, each line of input is a line of output. Formatting characters such as newline have no effect on the formatting; like any
unprintable character, they turn into spaces.
The bitmap is just wide enough for the longest line of text, plus margins, and just high enough to contain the lines of text, plus margins.
The left and right margins are twice the width of the widest character in the font; the top and bottom margins are the height of the
tallest character in the font. But if the text is only one line, all the margins are half of this.
OPTIONS -font,-builtin
By default, pbmtext uses a built-in font called bdf (about a 10 point Times-Roman font). You can use a fixed width font by specify-
ing -builtin fixed.
You can also specify your own font with the -font flag. The fontfile is either a BDF file from the X window system or a PBM file.
If the fontfile is a PBM file, it is created in a very specific way. In your window system of choice, display the following text in
the desired (fixed-width) font:
M ",/^_[`jpqy| M
/ !"#$%&'()*+ /
< ,-./01234567 <
> 89:;<=>?@ABC >
@ DEFGHIJKLMNO @
_ PQRSTUVWXYZ[ _
{ ]^_`abcdefg {
} hijklmnopqrs }
~ tuvwxyz{|}~ ~
M ",/^_[`jpqy| M
Do a screen grab or window dump of that text, using for instance xwd, xgrabsc, or screendump. Convert the result into a pbm file.
If necessary, use pnmcut to remove everything except the text. Finally, run it through pnmcrop to make sure the edges are right up
against the text. pbmtext can figure out the sizes and spacings from that.
-space pixels
Add pixels pixels of space between characters. This is in addition to whatever space surrounding characters is built into the font,
which is usually enough to produce a reasonable string of text.
pixels may be negative to crowd text together, but the author has not put much thought or testing into how this works in every pos-
sible case, so it might cause disastrous results.
-B -lspace pixels
Add pixels pixels of space between lines. This is in addition to whatever space above and below characters is built into the font,
which is usually enough to produce a reasonable line spacing.
pixels must be a whole number.
pixels may be negative to crowd lines together, but the author has not put much thought or testing into how this works in every pos-
sible case, so it might cause disastrous results.
USAGE
Often, you want to place text over another image. One way to do this is with ppmlabel. ppmlabel does not give you the font options that
pbmtext does, though.
Another way is to use pbmtext to create an image containing the text, then use pnmcomp to overlay the text image onto your base image. To
make only the text (and not the entire rectangle containing it) cover the base image, you will need to give pnmcomp a mask, via its -alpha
option. You can just use the text image itself as the mask, as long as you also specify the -invert option to pnmcomp.
If you want to overlay colored text instead of black, just use ppmchange to change all black pixels to the color of your choice before
overlaying the text image. But still use the original black and white image for the alpha mask.
If you want the text at an angle, use pnmrotate on the text image (and alpha mask) before overlaying.
SEE ALSO pnmcut(1), pnmcrop(1), pnmcomp(1), ppmchange(1), pnmrotate(1), pbmtextps(1), ppmlabel(1), pbm(5)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1993 by Jef Poskanzer and George Phillips
28 January 2001 pbmtext(1)