Hi
I need some help using shell script to edit a file.
My original file has the following format:
/txt/email/myemail.txt
/txt/email/myemail2.txt
/pdf/email/myemail.pdf
/pdf/email/myemail2.pdf
/doc/email/myemail.doc
/doc/email/myemail2.doc
I need to read each line. If the path is... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to find the content of file using grep and find command and list only the file names
but i am getting entire file list of files in the directory
find . -exec grep "test" {} \; -ls
Can anyone of you correct this (2 Replies)
I have a requirement, which is as follows
*. Folder contains list of xmls. Script has to create new xml files by copying the existing one and renaming it by appending "_pre.xml" at the end.
*. Each file has multiple <Name>fileName</Name> entry. The script has to find the first occurance of... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have a file called fl_list consists of files i have to archive. I want to create a exception parm called except_parm, so if it finds the directory it will not archive these files and remove from fl_list.
$ cat fl_list
/apps/dev/ihub/ready/IA003B/IA003B_Deal_Header_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.txt... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I need to write an automated bash shell script which performs such operations:
1. Grep the header of everyline with the initial of "T" in "FILE_A"
2. Perform a for loop,
Count the numbers of comma in the line of code,
if (no. of comma < 17)
ADD the comma until 17;
... (2 Replies)
HI guys i have a question.
Question 1: how do i modify a particular string?
e.g
echo "Please enter Book Title: "
read a
echo "Please enter Author: "
read b
if ]
then echo " Record found!"
which will then pop out a menu with the follow output
1. Update Name
2.... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I would like to print the content from the specific line of a file .
For example... i have file abc.txt which has 100 lines of code ,from this file i would like to print the content from 20,19,18th line......like that
Regards
Srikanth (4 Replies)
How do I deny a user to edit a specific file in directory but the user will have a capability to use sudo and execute any command? I will just deny him/her to edit sayy 5files in different directories in linux?
example. He cannot edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and /etc/sshd.config? Then the... (6 Replies)
Hi
This is my first post and I'm just a beginner. So please be nice to me.
I have a couple of html files where a pattern beginning with "http://www.site.com" and ending with "/resource.dat" is present on every 241st line. How do I extract this to a new text file?
I have tried sed -n 241,241p... (13 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)