sed replacing specific characters and control characters by escaping
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped to be replaced.
Does the above sed work as expected to replace all of the below characters with a space?
Last edited by Franklin52; 04-27-2012 at 03:45 AM..
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How can I use sed to replace a ctrl character such as 'new line' (\0a) to something else? Or any other good command can do this job?
Thanks,
Hillxy (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
Following is an output of a script
OPWQERIUTYKLSADFJHGXZNMCVBWQOPERIUTYKLSADFJHGXZNMCVB
I want to replace above string's 11 to 17 character by ******* (7 stars)
How can it be done?
Please somebody guide me. (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file with many lines with below format:
\abc\\1234
jkl\\567
def\\345
\pqr\\567
\xyz\\234
Here, i need to do 2 things.
1. replace \\ with \
2. remove starting \
so output to be as below: (11 Replies)
I want to append the following line to /var/spool/cron/root:
*/7 * * * * /root/'Linux CPU (EDF).sh' > /dev/null 2>&1
How to accomplish this using echo?
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"Linux CPU (EDF)" is actually stored in a... (11 Replies)
I'm trying to parse out DNS logs from dozens of different domain controllers over a large period of time. The logs are rolled up into individual text files by size, which may contain only a portion of a day's activity or several day's worth (depending on amount of activity). I'm splitting them by... (4 Replies)
I tried to replace the following in vi:
old: 'e/thesis/pp/zones/zones'
new: 'd/so162/fix/pp'
For that, I used: :%s/e/thesis/pp/zones/zones/d/so162/fix/pp/g
but doesn't work, a trailing character error message appeared. How can I get it?
Thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Hi, I have a bash script and I am looking for a command that will merge specific lines together.
Sample Data:
registration time = 1300890272
Id = 1
setd = 0
tagunt = 26
tagId=6, length=8, value=
tagId=9, length=5, value=
tagId=7, length=2, value=
tagId=16, length=2, value=
tagId=32,... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have a text file with some lines like this:
/MEDIA/DISK1/23568742.MOV
/MEDIA/DISK1/87456321.AVI
/MEDIA/DISK2/PART1/45753131.AVI
/IMPORT/44452.WAV
...
I want to remove the last 12 characters in each line that it ends "AVI". Should look like this:
/MEDIA/DISK1/23568742.MOV... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I have a text file which is output from a server and it lists all the files in a specific volume. However, the volume name appears as volume_name:.
I would like to replace this with \\volume_name\volume_name. This is not a problem in itself as I can use sed to globally look for the... (8 Replies)
Hello dears,
Please tell me how can I replace control characters with normal string. I have a file that contains normal string and ^A ^C control characters. I tried to use sed and awk without any luck.
sed 's/^A/foo/g' text > text1 //not worked
sed 's/\x01/foo/g' text > text1 ... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sembii
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diffmk
diffmk(1) User Commands diffmk(1)NAME
diffmk - mark differences between versions of a troff input file
SYNOPSIS
diffmk oldfile newfile markedfile
DESCRIPTION
diffmk compares two versions of a file and creates a third version that includes "change mark" (.mc) commands for nroff(1) and troff(1).
oldfile and newfile are the old and new versions of the file. diffmk generates markedfile, which, contains the text from newfile with
troff(1) "change mark" requests (.mc) inserted where newfile differs from oldfile. When markedfile is formatted, changed or inserted text
is shown by | at the right margin of each line. The position of deleted text is shown by a single *.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of diffmk when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1 An example of the diffmk command.
diffmk can also be used in conjunction with the proper troff requests to produce program listings with marked changes. In the following
command line:
example% diffmk old.c new.c marked.c ; nroff reqs marked.c | pr
the file reqs contains the following troff requests:
.pl 1
.ll 77
.nf
.eo
.nh
which eliminate page breaks, adjust the line length, set no-fill mode, ignore escape characters, and turn off hyphenation, respectively.
If the characters | and * are inappropriate, you might run markedfile through sed(1) to globally change them.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWdoc |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO diff(1), nroff(1), sed(1), troff(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)BUGS
Aesthetic considerations may dictate manual adjustment of some output. File differences involving only formatting requests may produce
undesirable output, that is, replacing .sp by .sp 2 will produce a "change mark" on the preceding or following line of output.
SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 diffmk(1)