Hello..
i want to use variable in sed..
like
sed 's/ROOTMAILID/$variable/g' conf.test
but its not working..
please help
thanks in advance
esham (2 Replies)
hi all,
i have a variable exported as
VAR=ATTRIB
then tried with,
echo "tt" | sed 's/^/$VAR/'
expected result as
ttATTRIB
but obtained only,
$VARtt
i could nt get where i am wrong.
Thanks. (3 Replies)
PLEASE EXPLANIN ME...
sed 's~\(.*\)\(<name>\)\(.*\)\(</name>\)\(.*\)~\2\3\4~'
this is the format
<start><name>123<\name><addr>BAC<\addr><loc>sfo<\loc></start> (1 Reply)
Hi Friends!!
I want to add a / at the end of a number. for example i have CQ65758 /, in this case i want to shift that backspace one space to the left so the my result becomes CQ65758/.
How can i do that with sed.
Thanks
Adi (3 Replies)
Hi,
The following command works fine for me, but I could not grasp the logic working behind of sed command, it's obscure to me :( :confused:
echo "./20080916/core/audioex.amr" | sed "s%\(\)/%\1_%g"
o/p: ./20080916_core_audioex.amr
Could anyone please explain to me in detail, that how... (6 Replies)
Hi,
i need find and replace a sting with a new variable having value as spaces in between.
Eg:
set a = "i am variable"
set b = "i am second"
sed -e 's/find_string/'$a'/g' -e 's/find2_str/'$b'/g' input_file
here it is giving error...
How to get an varaible, which is... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone help me in understanding how the below code works?
echo "texxt" | sed 's///' gives output exxt, ideally it should give xxt. as this should remove the chars which is not x.
echo 'x_a_b_a_c_a_d' | sed 's/.*\(a\)/\1/'
gives output as a_d, which should be 'a' as it's the only... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Could anyone please explain me what the following command does?
sed -ne "/\"$var\"/{=;q}" file (1 Reply)
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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)
02-10-2012
