I didn't understand. Are you looking for files with 3 character long names or are you looking for strings in a file 'test' which are 3 characters long?
Hello,
I create a file touch 1201093003 fichcomp
and inside a repertory (which hava a lot of files) I want to list all files created before this file :
find *.* \! -maxdepth 1 - newer fichcomp but this command returned bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
but i make a filter all... (1 Reply)
If I have very large text file
***************
***************
***************
***************
***************
ABC-sdfsdf
BBB-xk[ptr';
CCC-sdfolb
ABC-dltg'fl;l
My aim:
-> tail last 10 lines from large text. ***** Ok *****
-> Change first 3 charactors which begin with "ABC" to "abc".... (1 Reply)
hello all
i request you to give the solution for the following problem..
I want read the text file.and print the contents character by character..like if the text file contains google means..i want to print
g
go
goo
goog
googl
google
like this Using unix Shell scripting...
without using... (1 Reply)
This is regarding sendmail.
cat test.msg | sendmail -t
In test msg I have the following.
To: test@mymail.com
Subject: Test
Long text beings ...
Now when I receive the email in Outlook I get an "!" inserted usually at position 990 and repeated mostly after every 990 chars or 65 chars.... (2 Replies)
Hello everyone
Sorry I have to add another sed question. I am searching a log file and need only the first 2 occurances of text which comes after (note the space) "string " and before a ",". I have tried
sed -n 's/.*string \(*\),.*/\1/p' filewith some, but limited success. This gives out all... (10 Replies)
Morning Guys,
I am attempting to awk a file which strings in the file is only 6 characters long and not more.
Currently it is counting every line and giving a count of 59, but it should be 57 (not including the long baracode - 004705CIM*****)
" awk '/./ {cnt++} END {print cnt}'... (11 Replies)
find /tmp -type f -mtime +180
I have this script get the list to clean up files older than 180 days under /tmp.
But, I want to make sure to grep only a type of files, which have only 6 character long.
....
LT3hqa dRMoya ... (16 Replies)
Hi,
i want find the character '-' in a file from position 284-298, if it occurs i need to replace it with 'O ' for the position in the file. How to do that using SED command.
thanks in advance,
Sara (9 Replies)
Hi,
I use the below script that will find n record the entire directory structure for a given folder.
bash-3.2$ more mkdir.sh
find . -type d |while read rec
do
echo "mkdir $rec"
echo "chmod -R 777 $rec"
#done
done >> moht.sh
The problem is the folder i m running this script... (10 Replies)
I have a topic line in markdown that spans more than 80 characters that i need to add a line break. Markdown is simply treating the line break as a brand new line instead of continuing as a topic line.
Eg:
# This is a very long
line
Markdown interprets it as
This is a very long
line (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: dragonpoint
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)