09-02-2011
Afaik, in the general case no. But if your new first line has the same number of bytes or shorter and you can pad it with spaces then I believe you can do it quick with low level programming - open for read/write, read some bytes (512 for example) in a buffer, change them, rewind, and write the buffer back.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
grep -il "TEST" ${ENVIRON}/*.pde| while read pde
do
cat $pde | sed s/"TEST 3,1"/"TEST 3,0"/g | sed s/"TEST 3,1"/"TEST 3,0"/g > ${pde}.tmp
if ; then
mv ${pde}.tmp $pde ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shakey21
2 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i am very new to UNIX
plz help me in this scenario
i have two text files as below
file1.txt
name=Rajakumar.
Discipline=Electronics and communication.
Designation=software Engineer.
file2.txt
name=Kannan.
Discipline=Mechanical.
Designation=CADD Design Engineer.
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kkraja
6 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I have a file and in that, I want to search for a aprticular word and then replace another word in the same line with something else.
Example: In file abc.txt, there is a line
<host oa_var="s_hostname">test</host>
I want to search with s_hostname text and then replace test with... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sshah1001
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a folder which contains multiple config.xml files and one input file, Please see the below format.
Config Files format looks like :-
Code:
<application name="SAMPLE-ARCHIVE">
<NVPairs name="Global Variables">
<NameValuePair>
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: haiksuresh
0 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have file which contains around 5000 lines.
The lines are fixed legth but having no delimiter.Each line line contains nearly 3000 characters.
I want to delete the lines
a> if it starts with 1 and if 576th postion is a digit i,e 0-9
or
b> if it starts with 0 or 9(i,e header and footer)
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: millan
4 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
I need to search for a mult-line strngs(with spaces in between and qoted) in a file1 and replace that text with Fixed string globally in file1. The strng to search for is in file2.
The file is big with some 20K records. so speed and effciency is required
file1: (where srch & rplc... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hiano
0 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello guys,
I need your help for a specific sed command that would search for a multi line pattern and if found, would replace it by another multi line pattern.
For instance, here is the input:
<RefNickName>abcd</RefNickName>
<NickName>efgh</NickName>
<Customize>
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: xciteddd
0 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm trying the solve the following problem.
I have a file which I intend to use as a csv called master.csv
The columns are separated by commas.
I want to change the text on a specific row in either column 3,4,5 or 6 from xxx to yyy depending upon if column 1 matches a specified pattern.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cyphex
3 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a environment property file which contains:
Input file:
value1 = url1
value2 = url2
value3 = url3 and so on.
I need to search all *.xml files under directory for value1 and replace it with url1.
Same thing I have to do for all values mentioned in input file. I need script in unix bash... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shamkamde
7 Replies
10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi ,
I would like to replace new line characters(\n) in a huge file of about 2 million records . I tried this one (:%s/\n//g) but it's hanging there and no result. Does this command do not work if the file is big. Please let me know if you have any other options
Regards
Raj (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rajeevm
1 Replies
DD(1) FSF DD(1)
NAME
dd - convert and copy a file
SYNOPSIS
dd [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options.
bs=BYTES
force ibs=BYTES and obs=BYTES
cbs=BYTES
convert BYTES bytes at a time
conv=KEYWORDS
convert the file as per the comma separated keyword list
count=BLOCKS
copy only BLOCKS input blocks
ibs=BYTES
read BYTES bytes at a time
if=FILE
read from FILE instead of stdin
obs=BYTES
write BYTES bytes at a time
of=FILE
write to FILE instead of stdout
seek=BLOCKS
skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output
skip=BLOCKS
skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M
1,048,576, GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. Each KEYWORD may be:
ascii from EBCDIC to ASCII
ebcdic from ASCII to EBCDIC
ibm from ASCII to alternated EBCDIC
block pad newline-terminated records with spaces to cbs-size
unblock
replace trailing spaces in cbs-size records with newline
lcase change upper case to lower case
notrunc
do not truncate the output file
ucase change lower case to upper case
swab swap every pair of input bytes
noerror
continue after read errors
sync pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used
with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for dd is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dd programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info dd
should give you access to the complete manual.
dd (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 DD(1)