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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing text between two square brackets Post 302476783 by Franklin52 on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 02:51:21 PM
Old 12-02-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by zaff
...for further clarity:
what i'm trying to do is replace the string between the brackets with its MD5 value. I'm basically anonymising the data. I can only search the file using the id, as i have no idea what the string-to-be-replaced is.

.......and how about if i wanted to keep the square brackets?
Code:
MD5="New Text" 

sed '/0001/ s/\[.*]/['"$MD5]"'/' file

Quote:
Originally Posted by zaff
how can i assign the value between the brackets to a variable?
Code:
var=$(sed -n '/0001/ s/.*\[\(.*\)].*/\1/p' file)

 

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dlabad.f(3)							      LAPACK							       dlabad.f(3)

NAME
dlabad.f - SYNOPSIS
Functions/Subroutines subroutine dlabad (SMALL, LARGE) DLABAD Function/Subroutine Documentation subroutine dlabad (double precisionSMALL, double precisionLARGE) DLABAD Purpose: DLABAD takes as input the values computed by DLAMCH for underflow and overflow, and returns the square root of each of these values if the log of LARGE is sufficiently large. This subroutine is intended to identify machines with a large exponent range, such as the Crays, and redefine the underflow and overflow limits to be the square roots of the values computed by DLAMCH. This subroutine is needed because DLAMCH does not compensate for poor arithmetic in the upper half of the exponent range, as is found on a Cray. Parameters: SMALL SMALL is DOUBLE PRECISION On entry, the underflow threshold as computed by DLAMCH. On exit, if LOG10(LARGE) is sufficiently large, the square root of SMALL, otherwise unchanged. LARGE LARGE is DOUBLE PRECISION On entry, the overflow threshold as computed by DLAMCH. On exit, if LOG10(LARGE) is sufficiently large, the square root of LARGE, otherwise unchanged. Author: Univ. of Tennessee Univ. of California Berkeley Univ. of Colorado Denver NAG Ltd. Date: November 2011 Definition at line 75 of file dlabad.f. Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for LAPACK from the source code. Version 3.4.1 Sun May 26 2013 dlabad.f(3)
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