I think I have an additional requirement involving extraction of YYYYMMDD parttern, however what you assumed about this being a mnemonic for data/time data is now true. Can you help me out again?
I attempted the below code:
but I know this is in vain because it's too much tied up with the length of the string & the pattern length!!
-dips
you have to assume a minimum length of numbers to determine if it's a date or not. As your dates may differ in length, I assumed the minimum length of 8 -\{8,\}. Notice the trailing comma in the spec. From man ed:
considering file dip.txt:
the following:
produces:
Plzzzz, tell me some script about this...
What does this mean ?
sed '/^ */s///'
sed '/^/s// /'
and why it's diferent ???
sed '/ */s// /g' and sed 's/ */ /g'. It's all the same ???
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awk 's/A/B/g' file1 > file2
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Hello All,
Can you help me with this ,
I need to search a pattern replace it with the new pattern in all the files in a directory.
what would be the easiest way to do that?
Thanks in advance. :)
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File 1
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