As single quotes cannot be escaped with a backslash and double quotes like to evaluate, looks like double quotes is a best bet in my case.
Still investigating if we use sed double quoted "" escape normal character such as number 1 as \1 inside the sed, will it replace the \ and 1 as well, I know it \$ evaluates to $?
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As single quotes cannot be escaped with a backslash and double quotes like to evaluate, looks like double quotes is a best bet in my case.
Still investigating if we use sed double quoted "" escape normal character such as number 1 as \1 inside the sed, will it replace the \ and 1 as well, I know it \$ evaluates to $?
Bad example of \1 as it is back reference , let me use \A
echo "abc-A \ cde fg A \ hi" | sed -e "s/\A/ /g"
abc- \ cde fg \ hi
does not replace '\'
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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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)
05-02-2012
, let me use \A