how can i modify a file using sed when searching
for a pattern and insert newline after the pattern?
pattern example: $ ...(any characters)...$
$ may082001.../tmp/msg.001,,$ REPT CLEAR ALARMS ON UNIT 1
$ may082001.../tmp/msg.002,,$ UNIT 1 IN SERVICE
into:
$... (1 Reply)
Hello all
i have big test file that has allot of structure text something like this :
<foo1 *.html>
<blah action>
somthing 1
somthing 2
</blah>
</foo1 >
now i will like to insert 2 more lines of text below the <blah action>
so it will be like :
<foo1... (1 Reply)
Hi Every One...
I wanted to inserted a line in between matched pattrens..
Ex...
InPut File..
WRITEQ
TS
**************************
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
cccccccccccccccccccccccc
SOME PATTREN's
RESP ( WS-RESP )
... (7 Replies)
Hi, guys. I have one question:
How can I search for a line with certain string in it and then insert a string into this line?
For example:
There is a file called shadow, the contents of it are below:
**************************
...
yuanz:VIRADxMsadfDF/Q:0:0:50:7:::... (9 Replies)
Hi,, Please excuse my lack of knowledge here. I think I am tring to do something fairly advanced yet am a bit of a beginner.....
I want to use a korn shell (as is the norm with others in my company) to write a script to search a file for a string and insert some text above that line.
Sudo... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I've been racking my brain trying to find a good way to accomplish a task. I need to insert a block of text into a file in the format of
FirewallRuleSet proxy-users {
FirewallRule allow to 0.0.0.0/0
}
I need to insert this block of text (which could have sed special... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to do a sed (linux) or the alternative in PHP to insert a backslash in front of every occurrence of every forward slash
ex.
/archive/data/stanley
-->
\/archive\/data\/stanley
I appreciate it! (4 Replies)
HI All
Im trying to come up with an approach to finding a string, using a portion of that string to insert it on lines starting with the value "GOTO" appending to end of line after removing PT's ( See example below! )
EXAMPLE:
1. I would like to search for the line that starts with "TLAXIS/"... (7 Replies)
I have a following file:
# User defined in group
admin = boss, sysadmin
phpteam = php1, php2, php3
rubyteam = ruby1, ruby2
# SVN root should only be access by boss and system admin
@admin = rw
* =
# Main web repository should only be access by boss and system admin, others... (3 Replies)
Have a file which has the create statement like below
create table emp
( empno integer,
empname char(50))
primary index(empno);
i need to find a string starting with create and ends with semi-colon ;. if so insert the below statement before create statement
rename table emp to emp_rename;... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mohan0509
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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)