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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find and replace string from file which contains variable and path - SH Post 302450608 by hakermania on Friday 3rd of September 2010 07:38:29 AM
Old 09-03-2010
Question Find and replace string from file which contains variable and path - SH

e.g.
/home/$USER/.config replace it with "" (empty)
Is this possible?
I think you should play a bit with sharps ## and sedSmilie
 

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streamtuner2(1) 						   User Manuals 						   streamtuner2(1)

NAME
streamtuner2 - Browser for internet radio stations SYNOPSIS
streamtuner2 command [ channel,... ] [ title ] DESCRIPTION
Streamtuner2 is a graphical application for browsing through internet radio station directories, like Shoutcast.com and Xiph.org or Inter- net-Radio.org.uk. It is written in Python and easy to extend. And besides the grapical interface, has a commandline interface. OPTIONS
Display data from cache help Prints out a summary of available commands. stream channel title Searches for a station with the given title. Either looks in a single channel, or scans all plugins. url channel title Prints out only the streaming URL. play [channel] title Invokes the configured audio player. Load data from directory service categories channelname Returns a nested JSON list of all categories/genres. category "channelname" "Category" Prints out a JSON list of the genre. Each entry constains title, url and other meta information. Note that the category must have the exact case. EXAMPLES
streamtuner2 stream shoutcast,xiph "Top 100" Searches for the term "Top 100" in the shoutcast and xiph channels, and returns all info about the first match as JSON output. streamtuner2 play frequence3 Looks for the first occourence, and starts the audio player for FREQUENCE3. FILES
/home/$USER/.config/streamtuner2/settings.json SEE ALSO
streamripper(1) audacious(1) json(5) m3u(5) pls(5) BSD
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