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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search replace strings between single quotes in a text file Post 302539126 by maskofzorro on Friday 15th of July 2011 10:06:00 AM
Old 07-15-2011
Code:
cat books | sed 's/\(books.amazon=\)\(.*\)/\1NOTFOUND/'

books.amazon= is stored in \1
'Let me read' is stored in \2
 

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LedgerSMB::DBObject::Draft(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   LedgerSMB::DBObject::Draft(3pm)

NAME
LedgerSMB::DBObject::Draft - LedgerSMB base class for managing "drafts." SYNOPSIS
This module contains the methods for managing unapproved, unbatched financial transactions. This does not contain facities for creating such transactions, only searching for them, and posting them to the books. METHODS
search() returns a list of results for the search criteria. This list is also stored in $draft->{search_resuts} Requres $self->{type} to be one of 'ar', 'ap', or 'gl' Optional hash entries for search criteria are: with_accno: Draft transaction against a specific account. from_date: Earliest date for match to_date: Latest date for match amount_le: total less than or equal to amount_ge: total greater than or equal to approve() Approves the draft identified by the transaction id in $draft->{id}. Once approved, the draft shows up in financial reports. delete() Deletes the draft associated with transaction id in $draft->{id}. Naturally, only unapproved transactions can be deleted. Once posted to the books, a draft may not be deleted. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 LedgerSMB Core Team. This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2, or at your option any later version. Please see the included License.txt for details. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-25 LedgerSMB::DBObject::Draft(3pm)
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