1. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a file with the below content file1.txt ALERTADMIN.FIELD ALERTADMIN.TX_ALERTS_LOG i have another file file2 ALERTADMIN.FIELD ALERTADMIN.FIELD_WS ALERTADMIN.SECTION_FIELD_WS ALERTADMIN.TX_ACCT_PROCESSING_WORK_TABLE ALERTADMIN.TX_ACCT_REVIEW_EXEC_METRICS... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Trying to use sed - but having no luck. I have a text file - I want to replace whatever character is in position 106, 157 and 237 w/ the string "xxx". Want this change for all lines w/in that text file. I'm open to using awk or whatever command would be best for replacing characters based... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi experts, As i am a novice unix player...so need help for the below query...banged my head from quite a while...:confused: i have a set of html files, in which i need to search for string "Page"(case sensitive) and then replace the same with some numeric code ,say, "XXX1234". Here in... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Lets say I have file.txt: (Product:Price:QuantityAvailable) (: as delimiter) Chocolate:5:5 Banana:33:3 I am doing a edit/update function. I want to change the Quantity Available, so I tried using the SED command to replace 5, but my Price which is also 5 is changed instead. (for the Banana... (13 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. I have written the following script to search and replace from one file into another. #awk script to search and replace from file a in file b NR == FNR { A=$2; next } { for( a in A ) sub(a, A)}1 file2 file1 While the function works pretty well, I want a. The word in File 2 to... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Everyone, Im trying to run a search and replace of exact strings and the strings that im using variables that are passed through an array in a while loop. Here is a snip of my code: USEROLD=`cat oldusers` USERNEW=`cat newusers` USEROLDARRAY=( $USEROLD ) USERNEWARRAY=( $USERNEW )... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file DS1 DDS DS I want to replace only "DS" to "DSmail.blah.com" in a lot of files. I tried sed 's/DS/DSmail.blah.com' but it changes all the lines . thanks in advance (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

QUESTION1: How do you grep only an exact string. I am using Solaris10 and do not have any GNU products installed. Contents of car.txt CAR1_KEY0 CAR1_KEY1 CAR2_KEY0 CAR2_KEY1 CAR1_KEY10 CURRENT COMMAND LINE: WHERE VARIABLE CAR_NUMBER=1 AND KEY_NUMBER=1 grep... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

my inputfile: This is a test and only a test for production - prod. echo "This is a test and only a test for production - prod" | perl -pi -e 's/prod/test/g' outputfile: This is a test and only a test for testuction - test I only want to replace prod, not production. I also... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Team, I am facing a problem as under, Suppose I have a file (test.txt) with the below content (all braces and slashes are included in the contents of the file) Now I want to append few words below matched line, I have written the below sed: sed '/option/a insert text here' test... (2 Replies)