The file "newfile" will contain the replaced contents .
Just a heads up, since we don't know exactly what the data in file.in looks like, if any of it contains characters which are special in sed's substitution command's replacement field, this approach will choke. All it takes is the presence of an "&", "\", or "/".
I'm not saying this approach will not work, but you need to keep this in mind. It depends on what assurances you have regarding the data's content.
Hello,
I want to writte a script that replace two character strings by two variables with the command sed butmy solution doesn't work. I'm written this: sed "s/TTFactivevent/$TTFav/g && s/switchSLL/$SLL/g" templatefile.
I want to replace TTFactivevent by the variable $TTFav, that is a... (4 Replies)
Hi, i read couple of threads here on forum, and googled about what bugs me, yet i still can't find solution.
Problem is below.
I need to change this string (with sed if it is possible):
This is message text that is being quoted
to look like this:
This is message text that is being quotedI... (2 Replies)
Hey everyone!
Simple question - I am trying to use sed to replace two different strings. As it stands I can implement this as:
sed -i 's/TIMEOUT//g'
sed -i 's/null//g'
And it works. However, is it possible to shrink that down into a single command? Will there be any performance benefits? (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
Hi have this input (Menu.xml)<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<breakfast_menu>
<food>
<name>Berry-Berry Belgian Waffles</name>
<price>$8.95</price>
<calories>900</calories>
</food>
<food>
<name>French Toast</name>
... (6 Replies)
Dear expert,
I need an urgent help.
I would like to update my /etc/ntp.conf file using sed.
1) if script find this string "127.127.1.0" then add the lone below
#server 127.127.1.0
2) is script find this string "fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10" then add
#fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 ... (7 Replies)
Hi.. I have a file that has the following content :
abc 213 24 213
pqr 456#34 678
xyz 213 45%213
i need to write an awk script that will replace the second 213 in all the lines, if it is present. The IFS can not be specified and can be random.
The number of lines in the file and the... (5 Replies)
Dear All,
I am having a requirement to find the difference between 2 files and generate a discrepancy report out of it as an html page. I prefer using diff -y file1 file2 since it gives user friendly layout to know any discrepancy in the record and unique records among the 2 file. Here's how it... (12 Replies)
I am looking for a sed in which I can recognize all of the text in between two indicators and then replace it with a place holder.
For instance, the 1st indicator is a list of words "no|noone|havent" and the 2nd indicator is a list of punctuation ".|,|!".From a sentence such as
"noone... (3 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I want to find this 2 strings in a single line a file and replace the second string.
this is the line i need to find
<param name="user" value="CORE_BI"/>
find user and CORE_BI and replace only CORE_BI with admin
so finally the line should look like this.
<param... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I would like to replace all occurencies of long data types by others (coresponding int) using 'sed' in the extensive source code of a software package written for 32 bit CPUs.
I must use regular expressions to avoid wrong replacements like
s/unsigned]+long/ulong/gLeaving out... (2 Replies)
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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)