using sed/awk to replace a block of text in a file?
My apologies if this has been answered in a previous post. I've been doing a lot of searching, but I haven't been able to find what I was looking for. Specifically, I am wondering if I can utilize sed and/or awk to locate two strings in a file, and replace everything between those two strings (including the strings themselves) with new text.
For example, lets say I have a file with the following text:
And I want it to read like this:
How do I go about replacing
with
? Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Howdy!
I'm trying to automate editing of a configuration file (custom.conf for GDM). I need to find every line between a line that starts with "" and the next line that starts with "", I want to preserve that line, but then delete all the lines in that configuration section and then insert... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a situation where I want to replace some occurrences of ".jsp" into ".html" inside a text file.
For Example:
If a pattern found like <a href="http://www.mysite.com/mypage.jsp"> it should be retained.
But if a pattern found like <a href="../mypage.jsp"> it should be changed to... (4 Replies)
Hello,
file1:
not to be changed
not to be changed
<start>
old stuff
old stuff
old stuff
<end>
not to be changed
not to be changed
file2:
new text
new text
desired output: (3 Replies)
can anyone please help me in the below scenario:
File1:
Hello1
Hello1
i want to use sed to replace multiple occurances of Hello1 in file 1 to welcome.
Thanks a ton for the help (9 Replies)
Hello, guys!
"filename" has blocks with three lines each in this fashion:
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pendingThe above example has duplicate blocks, and I have tried using sed to remove just one block... The... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to use sed to replace NA to x ('s/NA/x/g'), but only in the 5th column of the space delimited text file, nowhere else. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to use sed to replace " /// " with "///" in a text file. However I am getting error messages when I use sed 's/ /// /////g' input.txt > output.txt. How do I go about doing this in sed?
Input:
219518_s_at 0.000189 ELL3 / SERINC4
Output:
219518_s_at 0.000189 ELL3/SERINC4 (5 Replies)
I have a sample text format as given below
<Text Text_ID="10155645315851111_10155645333076543" From="460350337461111" Created="2011-03-16T17:05:37+0000" use_count="123">This is the first text</Text>
<Text Text_ID="10155645315851111_10155645317023456" From="1626711840902323"... (3 Replies)
Good Day Every one
I have a problem finding and replacing text in some large files that will take a long time to manually edit.
Example text file looks like this
#Example Large Text File
unix
linux
dos
squid
bind
dance
bike
car
plane
What im trying to do is to edit all the... (4 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I have many files like so:
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
Within each file I have many lines of random text separated by commas like so:
abcAAA,123,defAA,456777,ghiA,789
jklB,101,mnoBBB,11211,pqrB,13111
stuCC,415,vwxCCCC,161,yzaC,718
I am trying to use SED or AWK to... (4 Replies)