& is the pattern space. \& is the character "&". \ is called "escape" it means take the next character literally not as a special character or a metacharacter.
is what it seems you are looking for
Oh, yeah that makes a whole lot of sense.. thank you!
I am having a problem executing a sed substitute in a file. I have tried alot of different things I found in previous posts, however non seem to work.
I want to substitute this in $FILE:
VALUE=33.4
In the script I have tried the following:
prev=$(awk -F"=" '{ print $2 }' $FILE )
new=$(echo... (16 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm currently using SED to make various changes to some .xml files I'm working on, but I'm stuck on this particular problem.
I want to remove '<placeholder>element-name</placeholder>' from the following:
<heading>Element <placeholder>element-name</placeholder> not... (2 Replies)
I am trying to get rid of some ending tags but I run into some problems.
Ex.
How are you?</EndTag><Begin>It is fine.</Begin><New> Just about
I am trying to get rid of the ending tags, starts with </ and ending with >. (which is </EndTag> and </Begin>)
I tried the following
sed... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm trying to write a bash script and I have some difficulties...
I have multiple files, which have the following names:
file_1.txt
file_2.txt
...
file_26.txt
Within each file there is some information, like:
(in the file_1.txt) name of the file: file_name_1_info.hdr
(in... (4 Replies)
I'm using sed to perform a simply search and replace. The typical data is:
<fig><image href="Graphics/BAV.gif" align="left" placement="break"
I need to replace the value in the first set of quotes, keeping the remainder of the line the same. Thus:
<fig><image href="NEW_VALUE" align="left"... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I am working on a script to replace special characters in ASCII file with '?'.
We need to get count of replaced characters from file. I am new to Awk and i read,
# The gsub function returns the number of substitutions made.
I was trying to replace characters with below... (10 Replies)
I am trying to do what I thought should be a simple substitution, but I can't get it to work.
File:
Desire output:
I thought I'd start with a sed command to remove the part of the header line preceding the string "comp", then go on to remove the suffix of the target string (e.g. ":3-509(-)"),... (3 Replies)
Hi experts :)
I need to replace special characters into a file , in the followiing way :
" --> ""
' --> ''
_--> \_
I tried with the sed command but I'm getting and error ksh: $: not found.
ksh: $: not found.
sed: Function s/\/\/ cannot be parsed.
Any idea ?
Thanks ,
KOLAS... (2 Replies)
Hi I have a source file that looks like
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,t,DISTI(USD),MSRP(USD),DIST(EUR),MSRP(EUR),EMEA-DISTI(USD),EMEA-MSRP(USD),GLOBAl-DISTI(USD),GLOBAL-MSRP(USD),DISTI(GBP), MSRP(GBP)
I want to basically change MSRP(USD) to MSRP,USD and DIST(EUR) to DIST,EUR and likewise for all i'm using... (3 Replies)
hi all,
i'd like to modify a file with sed , i want to substuite a char "-" with "/"
how can i do this?
Thanks for all
regards
Francesco (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: Francesco_IT
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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ex Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars. If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments con-
taining metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
-ox Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
SEE ALSO less(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 487: 25 Oct 2016 LESSECHO(1)