Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: sed + white space
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed + white space Post 302458490 by mysoogal on Friday 1st of October 2010 02:31:30 AM
Old 10-01-2010
thank goodness i find this page !

please how to remove the white space and replace with _ example file name backup.avi

and file name [2012] backup.avi

these white spaces and [] are annoying how would i run the command

thank you
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

stripping white space...

Hi All; Having a problem with a file.. the file contains the following data... (a snapshot) 1331F9E9DB7C2BB80EAEDE3A8F043B94,AL7 1DZ,M,50 186FDF93E1303DBA217279EC3671EA91,NG5 1JU,M,24 3783FFAF602015056A8CD21104B1AAAF,CH42 4NQ,M,17 It has 3 columns sepreated by a , the second column... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Zak
7 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to protect white space in for loop

Hi All, I know there's a really simple answer to this but I just can't think of it :) I'm processing a file which has lines containing white space i.e. And I want to perform some awk on each line but when I do the following: for US in $( cat /tmp/unique-strings.tmp | sed 's/\/\\]/g'... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: pondlife
6 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

SED with White Space

Dear Members, Suppose i have a variable test which stores a string as below: test='John drives+++++++++a+++++car' now i want to use sed on the above variable and replace + with a white space, so that i get echo $test should give me 'john drives a car' Between... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sandeep_1105
1 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Add white space to the end of a line with sed

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)
Discussion started by: karlanderson
7 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Matching white space through Grep

Hello All, I am trying to match white space in patterns through - Grep I tried ] & ] but none of them worked. Then I tried Perl extension '\s' and it worked. So just wanted to know if ] & ] are still supported or have they become deprecated. However they have been mentioned in the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: paragkalra
3 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete white space using sed

Hi , I have a file with contents as below group1 = aaaaa, bbbbb, ccccc, aaa group2=aaa, bbbbb, ccccc, aaaaa group3 = bbbbb, aaa, ccccc, aaaaa group4 = bbbbb, aaa,ccccc, aaaaa I want to search for "aaa" and the output should be as below group1 = aaaaa, bbbbb, ccccc group2= bbbbb, ccccc,... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: anil8103
3 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

filename with white space

our user creates a text file with a white space on the filename. this same file is transfered to unix via automation tool. i have a korn shell script that reads these files on a input directory and connects to oracle database to run the oracle procedures which will load the data from each of the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wtolentino
2 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove unwanted white space

Hi, I have a very big file 25GB with information present in it like $ head ind_stats update index statistics pfirm001.dbo.Office using 200 values go ... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: sam05121988
11 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Removing white space in awk

Hi How to remove white space from this input:|blue | 1| |green| 4| |black| 2| I like to search for green and get 4not 4 How to modify this to work correct:awk -F"|" '/green/ {print $3} (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jotne
7 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Add white space

hi guys how can i add spacein file name with sed if strings have no space around dash input 19-20 ( 18-19 ) ABC-EFG output after add white space 19 - 20 (18 - 19 ) ABC - EFG thx in advance (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mhs
2 Replies
BACKUP_QUIT(8)						       AFS Command Reference						    BACKUP_QUIT(8)

NAME
backup_quit - Leaves interactive mode SYNOPSIS
quit [-help] q [-h] DESCRIPTION
The backup quit command exits interactive mode, returning the issuer to the regular shell prompt at which the backup or backup interactive command was issued to enter interactive mode. The command has no effect when issued outside interactive mode. Issuing the Ctrl-D command also exits interactive mode. CAUTIONS
To exit interactive mode, all jobs must be completed. Use the backup jobs command to list any jobs currently pending or executing, and the backup kill command to terminate them as necessary. OPTIONS
-help Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored. EXAMPLES
The following command exits interactive mode: backup> quit % PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
None SEE ALSO
backup(8), backup_interactive(8), backup_jobs(8), backup_kill(8) COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved. This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. OpenAFS 2012-03-26 BACKUP_QUIT(8)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:49 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy