There is no way to avoid never having to escape certain characters but it is possible to reduce or eliminate the number of characters you have to escape.
For example, you could have avoided escaping the forward slash in your example by using a '|' as the delimiter, i.e.
As far as I know, any character except a backslash or newline can be used instead of a slash to delimit the find and the replacement.
Gurus,
I have in my /tmp directory 26 files "filea", "fileb"..."filez". Each file contains the name of a database 'dwora' at many, many places within each file.
My boss decided to change the name of the db so I need to do (what i'd call) a global search&replace of that string in all my... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a dir containing many shell scripts. Each of these shell scripts state a database name (always the same), which I need to change to be a new database.
grep <database name> * brings back all the lines containing the database name. However, I need to change them to be something... (1 Reply)
I have a file where the rows correspond to individuals and the columns are about 106 variables. Each variable is coded as either ACGT, and "missing" is coded as blank. This is a tab delimited file. I'm trying to replace all blanks (" ") with 0. The simple script I have is only replacing some of the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to change some strings from A to B in a number of files within a directory. Please can someone advise how do I do that?
Many thanks (5 Replies)
Hi all
I'm in need of a command which can replace a specified string with another string - across multiple files within multiple sub-directories (I intend to run it from / )
I've used the following to get a list of the files:
find . | xargs grep <string1>
But that's as far as I've got.... (7 Replies)
Hi, I wish to replace a new line with br (html) but it doesn't seem to work
message=$(echo ${FORM_message} | tr '\r' '<br \/>' )
what it gives me seems to be ... b...?
I am also having problem escaping hash sign in cut command:
list=$(echo "$line" | cut -d'\#;\#' -f1) ;
my intention is... (2 Replies)
All ,
i have input line as below .
abc\ , ewioweioi \,
and want the output as below removing the "\"
abc , ewioweioi ,
could anyone help me out (2 Replies)
I am wondering what way, I can remove a certain text with nothing.
for example:
MyVariable=Y7UHNI
to only:
Y7UHNI
removing 'MyVariable=' globally?
thanks (1 Reply)
I am newbie to perl,
I am trying to use the below syntax to replace globally a string with a variable.
$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ perl -version
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for... (2 Replies)
Hello -
I am trying to use a global replace command but its not working.
Here is the cmd I am using in vi:
:%s/OLD/NEW/g
However, in my "NEW" I already have a "/" which is not making the replace work:
:%s/mytestscript.com:33232/mytestscript:70245/test.com/g
the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: DallasT
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git-replace
GIT-REPLACE(1) Git Manual GIT-REPLACE(1)NAME
git-replace - Create, list, delete refs to replace objects
SYNOPSIS
git replace [-f] <object> <replacement>
git replace -d <object>...
git replace -l [<pattern>]
DESCRIPTION
Adds a replace reference in refs/replace/ namespace.
The name of the replace reference is the SHA-1 of the object that is replaced. The content of the replace reference is the SHA-1 of the
replacement object.
Unless -f is given, the replace reference must not yet exist.
Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and
fsck).
It is possible to disable use of replacement references for any command using the --no-replace-objects option just after git.
For example if commit foo has been replaced by commit bar:
$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file commit foo
shows information about commit foo, while:
$ git cat-file commit foo
shows information about commit bar.
The GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS environment variable can be set to achieve the same effect as the --no-replace-objects option.
OPTIONS -f
If an existing replace ref for the same object exists, it will be overwritten (instead of failing).
-d
Delete existing replace refs for the given objects.
-l <pattern>
List replace refs for objects that match the given pattern (or all if no pattern is given). Typing "git replace" without arguments,
also lists all replace refs.
BUGS
Comparing blobs or trees that have been replaced with those that replace them will not work properly. And using git reset --hard to go back
to a replaced commit will move the branch to the replacement commit instead of the replaced commit.
There may be other problems when using git rev-list related to pending objects. And of course things may break if an object of one type is
replaced by an object of another type (for example a blob replaced by a commit).
SEE ALSO git-tag(1)git-branch(1)git(1)GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 1.8.3.1 06/10/2014 GIT-REPLACE(1)