How can I use sed to replace a ctrl character such as 'new line' (\0a) to something else? Or any other good command can do this job?
Thanks,
Hillxy (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Suppose I have a file with the contents below, and I only want to print words %S_ then | sort -u.
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The %S_MSG that starts with '%.*s' is too long. Maximum length is %d.
The %S_MSG name '%.*s' contains more than the maximum number of prefixes. The... (5 Replies)
Hi everyone
I have file1 contains:
'7832'
' 8765
6543
I want a sed command that will format as:
'7832' , '8765' , '6543'
I tried
sed -e s/\'//g -e 's/^*//;s/*$//' file1 > file2
sed -e :a -e '$!N; s/\n/ /; ta' file2
which gives: 7832 8765 6543
I need some help to continue with... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a set of strings in filea.
I want to search string xyz in fileb and replace next line in file b with the content from filea.
#cat filea
abc
def
ghi
#cat fileb
asdkjdslka
sajljskdjoi
xyzjjjjkko
aaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbb
cccccccc
xyzsdsajd
dddddddd
eeeeeeee (2 Replies)
I googled this and couldn't find an answer, so I rolled my own. Here it is, hope it helps. Feel free to improve on it.
#!/bin/bash
PWORD=
ANYKEY=0
echo -n "Password: "
until
do
read -N 1 -s ANYKEY
echo -n "*"
PWORD="$PWORD$ANYKEY"
done
echo
echo $PWORD
exit (3 Replies)
Hi,
I require to replace 2 items:
1. replace start of all lines in a file with ' except the first line
2. replace end of all lines in a file with '||chr( except last line
I am able to do the entire file using
sed -e s/^/\'/g -e s/$/\'\|\|chr\(/g "$file" > newfile.txt
but am not yet able... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to replace a range of characters by their position in each line by spaces.
I need to replace characters 95 to 145 by spaces in each line.
i tried below but it doesn't work
sed -r "s/^(.{94})(.{51})/\ /" inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
can someone please help me... (3 Replies)
I have several files in a directory that look like this:
jacket-n r
potential-n -
outcome-n f
reputation-n b
I want to replace the characters in the second column with certain numbers. For instance, I want the letters 'f', 'r' and 'b' in the second column to replaced with 0 and I want the... (1 Reply)
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but for some reason I am struggling with the solution.
I simply want to replace all characters after the first 3 characters with another character, preferably with sed.
Thanks in advance.
Like this, but producing the proper number of *'s:
sed... (30 Replies)
Hello,
I have some data that looks like the following,
> <SALTDATA> (OVS0199262)
HCl
> <IDNUMBER> (OVS0199262)
OVS0199262
> <SUPPLIER> (OVS0199262)
TimTec
> <EMAIL> (OVS0199262)
info@timtec.net
> <WEBSITE> (OVS0199262)
http://www.timtec.net
I need to remove the data in... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: LMHmedchem
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
vorbiscomment
VORBISCOMMENT(1) Vorbis Tools VORBISCOMMENT(1)NAME
vorbiscomment - edits Ogg Vorbis comments
SYNOPSIS
vorbiscomment [-l] file.ogg
vorbiscomment -a [ -c commentfile | -t "tag=value" ] [-q] in.ogg [out.ogg]
vorbiscomment -w [ -c commentfile | -t "tag=value" ] [-q] in.ogg [out.ogg]
DESCRIPTION
vorbiscomment reads, modifies, and appends Ogg Vorbis audio file metadata tags.
OPTIONS -a Append comments.
-c commentfile
Take comments from a file. The file is the same format as is output by the the -l option: one element per line in 'tag=value' for-
mat.
-h Show command help.
-l List the comments in the ogg vorbis file.
-q Quiet mode. No messages are displayed.
-t 'tag=value'
Specify a new tag on the command line. Each tag is given as a single string. The part before the '=' is treated as the tag name and
the part after as the value.
-w Replace comments with the new set given either on the command line with -t or from a file with -c.
EXAMPLES
To just see what comment tags are in a file:
vorbiscomment -l file.ogg
To edit those comments:
vorbiscomment -l file.ogg > file.txt
[edit the comments in file.txt to your statisfaction]
vorbiscomment -w -c file.txt file.ogg newfile.ogg
To simply add a comment:
vorbiscomment -a -t 'ARTIST=No One You Know' file.ogg newfile.ogg
SEE ALSO
See http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html for documentation on the Ogg Vorbis tag format, including a suggested list of canonical
tag names.
AUTHORS
Program Authors:
Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org>
Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org>
Manpage Author:
Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>
Xiph.org Foundation December 24, 2001 VORBISCOMMENT(1)