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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace x Number of String Occurrence with Sed Post 302486843 by SkySmart on Monday 10th of January 2011 12:06:49 PM
Old 01-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by panyam
As suggested by DGPickett , you can use sed.

To get the line number of the 250th occurance:

Code:
 
line_num=`awk '/string to search/ {c++; if (c>=250) {c=NR;exit}}END {print c}' input_file`

then you can use $line_num value.

Code:
 
sed  "$line_num,$ s/string to search/string to replace/g" input_file

This doesn't seem to be what i want.

ok, the file that needs to be edited is services.cfg.

if i did a grep -c "use five-minute-interval" on that file right now, i would get about 590 lines that have those strings.

but, i want to cut that 590 to half by replacing half of the "five-minute-interval" with "four-minute-interval".

there has to be a way for me to be able to automatically replace the first number of occurrences of a string with another string.

I tried the below but it didn't work. I also tried what you suggested, but it didn't replace the bottom 250 occurrences of the specified strings. Smilie

Code:
sed 's/use five-minute-interval/use four-minute-interval/250' services.cfg

 

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ruptime(1)						      General Commands Manual							ruptime(1)

NAME
ruptime - show status of local machines SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
outputs a status line for each machine on the local network that is running the daemon. status lines are formed from packets broadcast once every 3 minutes between daemons (see rwhod(1M)) on each host on the network. Each status line has a field for the name of the machine, the status of the machine (up or down), how long the machine has been up or down, the number of users logged into the machine, and the 1-, 5- and 15-minute load averages for the machine when the packet was sent. The status of the machine is reported as ``up'' unless no report has been received from the machine for 11 minutes or more. The length of time that the machine has been up is shown as: Load averages are the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1-, 5- and 15-minute intervals when the packet was sent. An example status line output by might be: The above status line would be interpreted as follows: is presently ``up'' and has been up for 1 day, 5 hours and 15 minutes. It currently has 7 users logged in. Over the last 1-minute inter- val, an average of 1.47 jobs were in the run queue. Over the last 5-minute interval, an average of 1.16 jobs were in the run queue. Over the last 15-minute interval, an average of 0.80 jobs were in the run queue. If a user has not used the system for an hour or more, the user is considered idle. Idle users are not shown unless the option is speci- fied. Options If no options are specified, the listing is sorted by host name. Options change sorting order as follows: Sort by load average. Sort by up time. Sort by the number of users. Reverse the sort order. DIAGNOSTICS
No status report files in Ask the system administrator to check whether the daemon is running. AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. FILES
Data files SEE ALSO
rwho(1), rwhod(1M). ruptime(1)
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