Hi,
I'm not very familiar with unix shell. I want to replace the combination of two carriage returns and one newline with one carriage return and one newline. I think the best way to do this is to use sed. I tried something like this:
sed -e "s#\#\#g" file.txt
but it doesn't work.
Thanx... (2 Replies)
Hello I'm trying to write a shell script which can remove a carriage return and/or line feed from a file, so the resulting file all ends up on one line.
So, I begin with a file like this
text in file!<CR>
line two!<CR>
line three!<CR>
END!<CR>
And I want to end up with a file... (1 Reply)
Could someone tell me how to do the below without opening the file? (eg in sed or awk)
I have a file with the contenst below:
$ more file1.txt
10
AAA;
200
BBB;
3
CCC;
I want to delete the carriage return of one line above the line which has ";" at the end to get the... (3 Replies)
Hi everybody!
I'm working in one script with sed, I have file with the next content:
<voms.db.type
value="changeme"/>
<voms.db.host
value="changeme"/>
<voms.admin.smtp.host
value="changeme"/>
<voms.mysql.admin.password
value="changeme"/>
<glite.installer.verbose
value="true"/>
... (3 Replies)
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
Greetings
I need to replace "whitespace" in a file with the newline character aka carriage return
My command is either wrong or not interpreted properly by me shell
sed s/" "/\\n" "/g nets > nets1
or
sed s/" "/\n" "/g nets > nets1
nets (input file)
13MHZ_IN... (4 Replies)
I am hoping someone can help me with a solution to this problem using SED. My issue is actually two-fold. First, I have an order file that is sent to us from another system, however, there has been a change in current processes that requires a carriage return added to the end of each order. The... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a problem loading the data from a csv file
As you see below in the Input ,For the Data starting with " there are 2 lines, which i want to make them into single without changing the format of that data.
You can see the desired output below:
While i try to open the csv file and... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Can someone please share a Simple AWK command to append Carriage Return & Line Feed to the end of the file, If the Carriage Return & Line Feed does not exist !
Thanks (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: rosebud123
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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)