I have this sed command to grep a date from a filename for a script we have.
I am awful with sed so I need help.
Sometimes it works fine but other times it does not, see below.
works
Doesn't work, the 2009 is part of the filename:
by the way there is obviously another | cut -d. -f3,4,5 after the above commands to just get the dates but the sed seems to be the issue.
I really do not understand why it sometimes work or sometimes does not as the filename format is the same...
The file format is always http_log.hostname.yyyy.mm.dd.some.info.blah.gz
Help please
Last edited by GermanJulian; 06-11-2010 at 10:36 AM..
Reason: to fix something
hey there
i kinda have a small/big problem. i have created a 'small' version of a shell that only accepts ls comamnds. my problem is that when i compiled the program and got it to work, i deleted the .c file from which the shell was created. but now, i would like to do some more work on the... (2 Replies)
I have a shell script that carries out an extraction process as follows:
For a given input file dummy which looks like the following:
a.txt
a 1
a 2
xnzbcnzbxcbzxncbmnzxbcmzx
546
456
45
5
6
56
a 3
b.txt
b1
b2 (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have come across a command
echo "123 abc" | sed 's/*/& &/'
output is
123 123 abc
then i tried in different ways to get 123 abc abc as output.
Can u please explain me the importance of & in the above command.
Thank you
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I have a file tmp.out with contents:
2008-08-09 05:11:01
2008-08-09 08:52:59
2008-08-11 12:08:34
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I want the output to be:
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I need it in a one liner really as i want to edit many scripts in a for loop and dont want to have to invoke a separate script each time.
#!/bin/sh
sed '/mailx\ -s.*$ {
i\
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hello, i am a newbie and i really need your help
i have an centos 6.5 and i wonder if i can create a list with random 4 letters :
gdjf
ornc
tyrn
jfdn
nofd
etc....
if it can be done , i will really apreciate your help ! THANKS !!!
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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)