a=test
b=develop
sed "s,$a,$b,g" -------- but i see the word 'testing' is also replaced. Need some solution. Is there any way i could replace only 'test' ?
Leave a space after $a in the sed command
Last edited by michaelrozar17; 04-15-2011 at 06:50 AM..
Hi
I have the following file that i need to run a sed command on
1<tab>running
2<tab>running
3<tab>running
4<tab>running
I want to be able to replace a line i.e the second one with '2<tab>failed'. As the first number is unique that can be used to search for the relevant line (using ^2 i... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that I would like to translate using sed.
I can do some basic sed commands, but Im afraid this level is beyond me.
I have this file -
...alter...
..
...65536...
...
...65536...
...
...alter...
...
...65536...
etc
What I would like to do is replace the first... (11 Replies)
Hi
Can anyone provide me the replacement of sed with xargs perl syntax for the below
sed -e :a -e '/;$/!N;s/\n//; ta' -e 's/;$//'
This should be without looping has to take minimal time for search (0 Replies)
Hi all,
Thanks in advanced.
This question really bothered me much. What i want is to replace any times of repeated 'TB' to 'T', below is example.
It can be fullfil by AWK and perl, but my desire is using SED to realize it.
So here means we treat TB as a whole part, which means 's/TB*/T/'... (4 Replies)
I need to search and replace a particular string in a file. Only the exact match of the string should be replaced.
eg: File contents : abc abcd abcdef
--> Replace only 'abc' with 'xyz', but it should not replace abcd with xyzd.
So the o/p should be: xyz abcd abcdef.
How can this be done? I... (5 Replies)
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but I'm a noob and I can't figure it out. I'm trying to use sed, but would be happy to use anything that does the job.
I am trying to trim off a fixed number of unknown characters from 2 different : delimited fields while keeping the intervening... (4 Replies)
I am trying to replace the line which has string "tablespace" not case senstive....
with below simple script: mysrcipt.sh
sed "s/.*/TABLESPACE USERS/g" create_table > tmp
mv tmp create_table
Is there any better way to do it? If Search string tooooooo long it will be tough to code in... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing a problem while using SED in Linux.
I have a property file which contains a string
local.mds.dir=${basedir}/deployCompositesIt has be to replaced with another string, and value of that string should be initialized at runtime. So I use placeholder there. My substituted... (2 Replies)
Hi
,"environment":"accent-release","build":"ac-1112_c_Alph_Nop-release_rele-1112_c_Alph_Nop-release_rele","tags":""
above is the config file, where in i want to replace value after build inside the double quotes... that value i'll be passing as parameter
for example if m passing
... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm using Bash and Sed to replace text within a text file (1.txt) twice in one script. Using a for loop I'm initially replacing any 'apple' words with the variable 'word1' ("leg). I'm then using another for loop to replace any 'apple' words with the variable 'word2' ("arm"). This task is... (2 Replies)
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dos2unix(1) General Commands Manual dos2unix(1)NAME
dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
dos2unix
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
dos2unix a.txt b.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode. Convert c.txt from Mac to Unix
ascii format.
dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
dos2unix -k a.txt
dos2unix -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHORS
Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>
Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO unix2dos(1)mac2unix(1)1995.03.31 dos2unix v3.0 dos2unix(1)