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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extended replacing of nonspecific strings in text files [beware complicated !] Post 302527064 by pasc on Thursday 2nd of June 2011 08:48:38 AM
Old 06-02-2011
Extended replacing of nonspecific strings in text files [beware complicated !]
Well, to make another post at this helpful forum SmilieSmilie:

I recently tried something like this, I want to replace all those numberings/letters that are located
between <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/ and /Documents/</string>

numberings =[Number/Letter]-[Number/Letter]-[Number/Letter]-[Number/Letter]-[Number/Letter]

replace with:
  • first instance with 1234
  • scnd instance with 1234
  • thrd instance with 5678
  • fourth instance with 5678
  • fifths instance with 1010
  • sithth instance with 1010
  • seventh instance with 1111
  • eighth instance with 1111
[I marked them down in the example: ]

The text file:
[spoiler]
Code:
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Children</key>
  <array>
    <dict>
      <key>URIDictionary</key>
      <dict>
        <key></key>
        <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Media/Downloads/</string>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>Downloads</string>
      </dict>
      <key>URLString</key>
      <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Media/Downloads/</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkType</key>
      <string>WebBookmarkTypeLeaf</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkUUID</key>
      <string>FCA20256-B43E-4B7B-B496-116EAB4F0937</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
      <key>URIDictionary</key>
      <dict>
        <key></key>
        <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/453F6009-876D-4757-8111-2201555C96C3/Documents/</string>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>iCab Downloads</string>
      </dict>
      <key>URLString</key>
      <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/453F6009-876D-4757-8111-2201555C96C3/Documents/</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkType</key>
      <string>WebBookmarkTypeLeaf</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkUUID</key>
      <string>DC9D8A8C-B0F0-4E13-8F8B-167BBF9DE0C5</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
      <key>URIDictionary</key>
      <dict>
        <key></key>
        <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/FC972FD1-DA09-4FD5-9BDE-3B292946DA36/Documents/</string>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>iDownloads</string>
      </dict>
      <key>URLString</key>
      <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/FC972FD1-DA09-4FD5-9BDE-3B292946DA36/Documents/</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkType</key>
      <string>WebBookmarkTypeLeaf</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkUUID</key>
      <string>EDBE01E6-14BC-408A-8D67-85C4E37E4074</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
      <key>URIDictionary</key>
      <dict>
        <key></key>
        <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/3FFE1C4B-F8B4-483E-AACB-324718DEA9E4/Documents/</string>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>wikiamo</string>
      </dict>
      <key>URLString</key>
      <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/3FFE1C4B-F8B4-483E-AACB-324718DEA9E4/Documents/</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkType</key>
      <string>WebBookmarkTypeLeaf</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkUUID</key>
      <string>734D7530-6A0D-4F8F-A05D-0AA084E4C0F4</string>
    </dict>
    <dict>
      <key>URIDictionary</key>
      <dict>
        <key></key>
        <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/3B26CD6B-6E8B-4AB6-9A33-7ED1A2818FC1/Documents/</string>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>Manga BDR</string>
      </dict>
      <key>URLString</key>
      <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Applications/3B26CD6B-6E8B-4AB6-9A33-7ED1A2818FC1/Documents/</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkType</key>
      <string>WebBookmarkTypeLeaf</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkUUID</key>
      <string>FCB13D18-D02B-4864-B62F-B2CF3B5606CA</string>
    </dict>
      <dict>
        <key></key>
        <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Media/Documents/</string>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>Documents</string>
      </dict>
      <key>URLString</key>
      <string>file://localhost/var/mobile/Media/Documents/</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkType</key>
      <string>WebBookmarkTypeLeaf</string>
      <key>WebBookmarkUUID</key>
      <string>DC8D8A8C-B0R0-4E13-8F8T-167BBF9DE0C5</string>
    </dict>
  </array>
  <key>WebBookmarkFileVersion</key>
  <integer>1</integer>
  <key>WebBookmarkType</key>
  <string>WebBookmarkTypeList</string>
  <key>WebBookmarkUUID</key>
  <string>iFileBookmarkRoot</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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Last edited by pasc; 06-02-2011 at 11:05 AM..
 

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