I know that this my be really simple, but I'm having a hard time accomplishing it. I am trying to add a new line of text after finding a particular string of text in a file. Here's what I'm getting:
sed: command garbled: N/search_string/\\new_text/
I was using "N" to add a line after the... (3 Replies)
trying to remove the portion in red:
Data:
mds_ar/bin/uedw92wp.ksh: $AI_SQL/wkly.sql
mds_ar/bin/uedw92wp.ksh: $EDW_TMP/wkly.sql
output to be:
mds_ar/bin/uedw92wp.ksh: wkly.sql
mds_ar/bin/uedw92wp.ksh: wkly.sql
SED i'm trying to use:
sed 's/:+\//: /g' input_file.dat >... (11 Replies)
Im trying to add 5 blank spaces to the end of each line in a file in a sed script. I can figure out who o put the spaces pretty much anywhere else but at the end.
thanks
Karl (7 Replies)
This is my first post, please be nice. I have tried to google and read different tutorials.
The task at hand is:
Input file input.txt (example)
abc123defhij-E-1234jslo
456ujs-W-abXjklp
From this file the task is to grep the -E- and -W- strings that are unique and write a new file... (5 Replies)
what is the sed command to remove the first two characters of every line of a text file?
each line of the text file has the same amount of characters, and they are ALL NUMERIC. there are hundreds of lines though.
for example,
>cat file1.txt
10081551
10081599
10082234
10082259
20081134... (20 Replies)
I've been playing with sed, trying to get it to insert the contents of somefile.txt after line 13 on anotherfile.txt. I tried searching for a line with regex and attempting to insert something on the next line with:
find ./anotherfile.txt -type f -exec sed -i -e '/^dog/cat/' {} \;
but it... (2 Replies)
help
i need to add a "nfsd" in new line after cron
ex:
cron
rpcbind
output:
cron
nfsd
rpcbind
i use
sed -e "/cron/G; s/$/nfsd/" myfile
output:
cron
nfsd
rpcbindnfsd (5 Replies)
hi guys,
im trying to add the following line in my xml file
<dbrollbacksegs <oa_var="s_db_rollback_segs">NOROLLBACK</dbrollbacksegs>
when ever i find the following line
<dbsharedpool oa_var="s_dbsharedpool_size">300000000</dbsharedpool>
I have succedded till adding a new line... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Is there other way to Add text at start and ending of every line?
here my script:
cat file.txt |awk '{print "<p align=\"justify\">"$0"</p>"}'
but the problem they put including white spaces, I only need those line have a sentence or text not an skip all have empty string or have... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: lxdorney
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)