1. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

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)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have input files like this SFE_DOC_DATE (SFE_DOC_DATE:UniChar.:): "04/18/20" SFE_PSTNG_DATE (SFE_PSTNG_DATE:UniChar.:): "04/18/20" SFE_CREATEDON (SFE_CREATEDON:UniChar.:): "05/31/20" SFE_CLEAR_DATE (SFE_CLEAR_DATE:UniChar.:): "(NULL)" SFE_CLR_DOC_NO... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi , what is the equivalent of below awk in sed. awk '$1=="ABC"&&$2=="XYZ" {print $0}' infile Thanks, Shruthi (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Could anyone please explain me what the following command does? sed -ne "/\"$var\"/{=;q}" file (1 Reply)