Hi,
Here is my piece of code used with sed in shell script:
The problem that i am facing with the above is that in 'myxml' file i have mulitple instances of
so when i execute the above sed command, it is appending the
after every instance of
Please can some one help me to know if there is a way where i can append the text only after the first instance of the
and not after every instance of the
Thanks
Hi, I've been trying to figure this one out and found a post about this on the forum here but the solution didn't seem to work for me. Basically what I have is a file that looks something like:
stuff
morestuff
0
otherthing
0
etc
I want to substitute for the 0 but what I want to... (9 Replies)
hi
i have one file where i want to substitute only first instance of
swap
with swap1
i want to replcae only first instance of swap in my script
i know we can do this with awk. but i need to do this with sed only
i tried follwoing code
sed 's/swap/swap1' filename
but here all... (15 Replies)
I need to reduce a file's size below 50MB by deleting chucks of text. The following sed does this.
sed '/^begpattern/,/endpattern/d' myfile
However, it's possible that the file size can get below 50MB by just deleting the first instance of the pattern. How do I code that into sed?
Or can awk... (8 Replies)
I was told a way to do this with awk earlier today but is there a way with sed to specify the last instance of a character on a line?
You will know what character you're looking for but there could be none or one hundred instances of it on a line say and you ONLY want to specify the last one for... (3 Replies)
Hello,
There is a log file A.log where new lines are getting added every minute.
When ever any new lines are getting added in to A , the same lines needs to be appended to B.log
I need to append these newly added lines to end of another file B through a shell script. I tried CAT but its... (2 Replies)
Hi All
I need help
am having a source file as below
emp
dept
class
subclass
region
country
division
first i need to get line count and i need to divide by 3 it is an parameter passing value
number of lines 7 (8 Replies)
The following text is in testFile.txt:
one 5
two 10
three 15
four 20
five 25
six 10
seven 35
eight 10
nine 45
ten 50
I'd like to use sed to print the first occurance of search pattern /10/ in a given range. This command is to be run against large log files, so to optimize efficiency,... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and also relatively new to sed and other such wonderfully epic tools.
I'm attempting to grab a section of text between two words, but it seems to match all instances of the range instead of stopping at just the first.
This occurs when I use:
sed -n... (7 Replies)