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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing individual characters with a pattern. Post 302576320 by ahamed101 on Thursday 24th of November 2011 09:39:08 AM
Old 11-24-2011
ahhhh!!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by CarloM
Another variation:
Code:
#  cat x.txt
Truth be told, this is the =closest
 I've =ever =gotten to a =college =graduation.
# awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) { if ($i ~ /^=/) { $i=substr($i,2); gsub ("[[:alpha:]]","__ ", $i) }} 
print}' x.txt
Truth be told, this is the __ __ __ __ __ __ __
I've __ __ __ __  __ __ __ __ __ __  to a __ __ __ __ __ __ __  __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .

I was trying everything for this gsub ("[[:alpha:]]","__ ", $i).
Awesome code CarloM Smilie And thanks for the info!
My code looks like junk! Smilie

--ahamed
 

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gnomevfs-cat(1) 						   User Commands						   gnomevfs-cat(1)

NAME
gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-cat URI DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-cat is obsolete. It has been superseded by gvfs-cat. See gvfs-cat(1). gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com Example 2: Cat a Local File example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Obsolete Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1), gvfs-cat(1), attributes(5), environ(5) NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.11 14 May 2008 gnomevfs-cat(1)
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