@Corona688 : actually my first example was not correct. In fact, the data that I have to manage is more dirty. Some value is surrounded with brackets, quotes or both, or even nothing. Also, some comma might be surrounded by spaces...
So we should work with this kind of data :
Your sed does not working anymore :'( :
@in2nix4life : your solution does not work for me, no comma is changed.
I tried other way with \b but failed...
Hi,
I have files that are named front1.txt to front999.txt. They are all in the same directory. To change "front" to "back", I am doing something like this.
for file in *.txt; do
new=`echo $file | sed 's/^**/back/g'`
mv $file $new
done
My problem is what if files are named... (6 Replies)
hi!
i have a file consisting of the following lines:
(BTW, = space)
.
.
.
12ME_T1mapping_flip30bshortf
13DCE_whole_brainbshortf
13DCE_3Dbshortf
.
.
.
the list of scans starts at 1 and goes on sometimes up to 60 scans. i would like to change only the lines that contain 'whole' to... (2 Replies)
Hello
I have a document and in this document I have several occurrence of "VAR == xxxxxxx" and xxxxx can be anything. I don't know what it is. I want to replace the 'xxxxx's with something I know.
What I know however, is the line numbers of the VAR =='s in the file.
How can I replace... (1 Reply)
I am trying to find words in a text with a certain ending with sed and replace them with themselves but wrapped in tabs
ex.: The fish swims in the water. -> searching for -ms ending
The fish <tab>swims<tab>in the water.
I've been trying all sorts of commands and get either an error... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am taking the current time using localtime function in perl. For example if the time is:
#Using localtime
$time = "12:3:10";
I have to replace the value 3 (03) i.e second position to be 03.
The output should be:
12:03:10
But if the other string for example:
$str:... (1 Reply)
Hi
I need to Replace a part of string in between one complete string.
For e.g..
in the file the value is as:
jobnm_$code_xyz_001
In script we are having a variable code=$3, where $3=ab
final output should be jobnm_ab_xyz_001.
But it is not working. Your help will be... (1 Reply)
here is what i want to achieve... consider a file contains below contents. the file size is large about 60mb
cat dump.sql
INSERT INTO `table1` (`id`, `action`, `date`, `descrip`, `lastModified`) VALUES (1,'Change','2011-05-05 00:00:00','Account Updated','2012-02-10... (10 Replies)
Hello.
Using a bash script , I have a variable name for the file I want to modify
FILE_TO_EDIT="/etc/my_config_file"And I have a variable name for the parameter to change
PARAMETER="fallback_node"
PARAMETER_NEW_VALUE="http://my_server_name.com/new_path"
A config file may contain :
1°)... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I need to replace part of string in file, the string format is below: I can use ABCD to find string, then replace values after "=" sign
ABCD_XXX=value
ABCD_YYY=value
after replace
ABCD_XXX=new_value
ABCD_YYY=new_value
my OS is SunOS 5.10 Generic_150400-64 sun4v sparc sun4v
... (9 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
replace
REPLACE(1) General Commands Manual REPLACE(1)NAME
replace - A utility program that is used by msql2mysql, but that has more general applicability as well. replace changes strings in place
in files or on the standard input. Uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. Can be used to swap strings.
USAGE
replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... -- [files]
or
replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... < fromfile > tofile
SYNOPSIS
replace [-?|-I] [-s] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
replace
-?|-I info
-s silent
-v verbose
EXTRA INFO
Special characters in from string:
^ Match start of line.
$ Match end of line.
Match space-character, start of line or end of line. For a end the next replace starts locking at the end space-character. A
alone in a string matches only a space-character.
EXAMPLE
this command swaps a and b in the given files:
shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...
SEE ALSO
isamchk (1), isamlog (1), mysqlaccess (1), mysqladmin (1), mysqlbug (1), mysqld (1), mysqldump (1), mysqlshow (1), msql2mysql (1), perror
(1), replace (1), safe_mysqld (1), which1 (1), zap (1),
AUTHOR
Ver 1.0, distribution 3.23.29a Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@tcx.se), TCX Datakonsult AB (http://www.tcx.se). This software comes with
no warranty. Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mer-
curmedia.com)
20 December 2000 REPLACE(1)