04-23-2012
@royalibrahim. \+ is a GNU extension to sed. You can use it but your command will only work with GNU sed..
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Is it possible to process multiple variables in a single sed command?
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Could someone tell me the single character wildcard for SED?
I have the file below:
$ more input2
AAA /A/B/C BBB /D/E/F
CCC /G/H/I DDD
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AAA BBB
CCC
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file 'imei_01.txt' having the following contents:
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a123456
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yet223
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Greetings,
I have the following scenario, The contents of main file are like :
Unix|||||forum|||||||||||||||is||||||the||best
so||||||be|||||on||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||it
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so=be=on=it
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Would appear to me to be a farily simple question but having search all the threads I can't find the answer .. I just want sed to output the single line in a file that contains two string anywhere on the line..
e.g. currently using this command
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm using AIX(ksh shell).
> cat temp.txt
"a","b",0
"c",bc",0
"a1","b1",0
"cc","cb",1
"cc","b2",1
"bb","bc",2
I want the output as:
"a","b","c","bc","a1","b1"
"cc","cb","cc","b2"
"bb","bc"
I want to combine multiple lines into single line where third column is same.
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here is what i want to achieve.. i have a file with below contents
cat fileName
blah blah blah
.
.DROP this
REJECT that
.
--sport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
--dport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
.
.
.
more blah blah blah
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I have a csv dataset like this :
C,rs18768
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T,rs9274407
A,rs730012
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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)