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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search replace strings between single quotes in a text file Post 302539119 by Hiano on Friday 15th of July 2011 09:24:37 AM
Old 07-15-2011
thanks radoulov and itkamaraj!!!

I want to refine this search.. :-)

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My file has; books.amazon='Let me read' and the output needed is
Code:
books.amazon=NONFOUND

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Can I first find the text between string1= books.amazon=' and string2= ' (locate the text beween the cotes)

and then replace by NOTFOUND.!! this way i can replace multiple strings. I have tried this code but no luck..

Code:
sed -i 's/\(books.amazon='\)[^<]*\('\)/NOTFOUND/g' abc.txt

pls guide

Last edited by radoulov; 07-15-2011 at 10:27 AM.. Reason: Code tags.
 

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NAME
getosreldate -- get the value of __FreeBSD_version LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int getosreldate(void); DESCRIPTION
The getosreldate() function returns an integer showing the version of the currently running FreeBSD kernel. Definitions of the values can be found in The Porter's Handbook which is usually installed at /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, getosreldate() returns the value requested; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ENVIRONMENT
OSVERSION If the environment variable OSVERSION is set, it will override the getosreldate() return value. EXAMPLES
An example can be found in /usr/share/examples/FreeBSD_version. ERRORS
The getosreldate() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library function sysctl(3). SEE ALSO
The Porter's Handbook, /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/. HISTORY
The getosreldate() function appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. BSD
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