What language is the file from which you are removing comments? The fact that you say it has "echo" statements makes me think "shell", but shells do not support "/*....*/" style comments.
Regardless of language, it's quite a leap to say that's it's obvious that comments containing "echo" should be retained. If you were told to remove all comments then that it what you should do. Maybe you should clarify your instructions.
I haven't tried it, but the first sed script you posted looks like it should work. It's pretty clever actually. But you can't split it up into separate sed statements. It's a unit and it needs to stay that way.
/\/\*/!b Loop until we find a line with "/*" in it. Once we find such a line we can proceed to the the rest of the sed script.
Code:
:x
/\*\//!{
N
bx
}
This little paragraph asks if we have a "*/". We might if the earlier sed statement found a one line comment. But if the comment extends to several lines, we will not immediately have the terminating "*/". So read read another input line with the "N" command. The "bx" jumps back to the ":x". That is how we loop in sed. Eventually we will read the "*/" and fall out of the loop to the final statement.
Code:
# delete /*...*/
s/\/\*.*\*\///
The comment is correct. It deletes the "/*...*/" comment. If all you have is one line comments, this one command may be all you need.
I have not tested it. But it all looks good. But each statement depends on the others. You are not going to be able to turn this sed script into several sed scripts. I hope this helps you.
Hello Unix Gurus,
We are doing large system upgrade. We expect upgrade to last 180-200 hours. The servers are located remotely.
I am looking for solution which allows me to reconnect to the same session active on unix server where I launched the process. This would protect from local client... (0 Replies)
I have a file with a single line in it as below.
field1 field2 field3
Different fields separated by spaces. I need the output as below.
field1
field2
field3
Any sed/awk solution you can suggest? (6 Replies)
$db2 connection ...........Q
a=`$db2 -x "select A from tablename where z in (select z from tablename Q where condition fetch first 1 rows only ) with ur"`
b=`$db2 -x "select B from tablename where z in (select z from tablename Q where condition fetch first 1 rows only) with ur"`
$db2... (2 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)
Hi,
can anyone help me with my scrip please. I wanted do following tasks:
1. List all the directory
2. A STDIN to ask user to enter a directory name from listed directories
3. command to check if the directory exists( or a command to validate if the user entered a valid directory name)
... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using LATEX and need to delete all the lines in a file matching:
\begin{work}
I know there are several ways to do this, but I am trying to do it with the substitute command in VI. The problem is I can't get substitute to recognize the character '\'!
How do I do it?
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have this code but when i run it i get this error
./pulse: line 2: and here is the code
#!/bin/bash
if ;
then
pulseaudio -k;
fi
what am i doing wrong
thanks
Adam (5 Replies)
Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted!
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Try running 'phone4 xyz' and see what happens.
Modify your program so that if no matching name is found, an... (1 Reply)
Hello people,
I am having problem to sort, sed and zero padding of column in csv file.
7th column only.
Input of csv file:
1,2,3,4,5,6,4/1/2010 12:00 AM,8
1,2,3,4,5,6,3/11/2010 9:39 AM,8
1,2,3,4,5,6,5/12/2011 3:43 PM,8
1,2,3,4,5,6,12/20/2009 7:23 PM,8
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I'm trying to remove '--X' from the whole file and using variables replace $oldvar with $newvar.
I have tried with double quotes but it doesn't seem to work. $newvar is set to /usr/bin/bash. Would appreciate some guidance.
newvar=$(which bash)
oldvar=/bin/bash
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
rbash
RBASH(1) General Commands Manual RBASH(1)NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1)RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is
used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow-
ing are disallowed or not performed:
o changing directories with cd
o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV
o specifying command names containing /
o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command
o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command
o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup
o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup
o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators
o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command
o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command
o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins
o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command
o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted.
These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read.
When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script.
SEE ALSO bash(1)GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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