Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Matching a pattern between two characters (sed) Post 302499143 by panyam on Wednesday 23rd of February 2011 10:22:41 AM
Old 02-23-2011
Code:
$ while read line
> do
> echo "$line" | sed 's/:/ /g' | while read a b c d e f
> do
> echo $a
> echo $b
> echo $c
> echo $d
> echo $e
> echo $f
> done
> done <  input_file

 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Pattern matching sed

MSG="THERE WERE XX RECORDS IN ERROR TABLE,AAAA, WHEN LOADING THE BBBB TABLE WITH EXTRACT FROM CCCC INTO TABLES FOR , DATABASE DDDD." echo "$MSG" > /tmp/mplanmsg.$$.out I wan to replace XX with the content in $recordXX cat /tmp/mplanmsg.$$.out|sed 's/XX/\$recordXX/g'| sed... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: leemjesse
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed pattern matching

Hi, I have a file which contains a word like ravi and ravi30. i want to replace only the word ravi with xxx for that i am using the below sed command sed -e 's/ravi/xxx/g' . but the above command out put is xxx and xxx30 but i dont need to change ravi30 please guide me how to proceed.... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ravi_rn
4 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed - matching pattern one but not pattern two

All, I have the following file: -------------------------------------- # # /etc/pam.d/common-password - password-related modules common to all services # # This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files, # and should contain a list of modules that define the services... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: RobertBerrie
2 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

pattern matching w/ unexpected characters

how do i check if the first character is a parenthese in pattern matching? if ] obviously doesnt work. How do I use it to compare so it doesnt try to use it to group. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: questionasker
5 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed pattern matching

Unfortunately this chap has been banned for some reason and I was looking forward to the resolution of his question: - https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/123118-append-position-28-33-a.html He was asking if you can use sed to match a pattern you want to replace within a... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: steadyonabix
6 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

SED pattern matching help

Hello All, I have the following lines in a file <address location="test" ConnectionName="test" /> I want to replace the above lines by <address location="test123" /> I am usind SED and not able to remove the new line characters between the two lines. Can anyone please help... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ramk
4 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

help! Pattern Matching in vi or sed

I have a bunch of conf files, that contain the fully qualified names of servers. I would like to be able to use some sort of pattern matching with sed or vi, or whatever, to pull out the fully qualified server names, and dump them in a file. It just needs to work across several unix os. So, I... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tabini
4 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Matching a pattern 250 characters up and down stream

hii all i have a file a which contains some thing like this strand smthg position + yyx 3020 - yyw 10,000 now i have another file (file2) which contains the data starting from 1 to n positions i want to refer first file if + ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: anurupa777
4 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sed: printing lines AFTER pattern matching EXCLUDING the line containing the pattern

'Hi I'm using the following code to extract the lines(and redirect them to a txt file) after the pattern match. But the output is inclusive of the line with pattern match. Which option is to be used to exclude the line containing the pattern? sed -n '/Conn.*User/,$p' > consumers.txt (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: essem
11 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Use sed to get first matching pattern

HI, I have a file: listenerport: - 1521 - 10520 - 10521 - 10522 - 10523 instances: listenerport: listenerport: - 1521 - 10540 - 10541 - 10542 - 10543 instances: ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: netbanker
5 Replies
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:22 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy