I am trying to use sed to replace a file path within all the .lay (.txt) files in a folder. I feel that this should be easy but I can't get it to work no matter what i try.
I'm using cygwin.
For a .txt file containing the below line I want to replace this file path with a new one.
Below is what i think should work.
I've tried placing the variables inside the command, defining the input and output files. I've changed the delimeter to |, as using back or forward slashes is problematic with file names. I have tried other methods on fouums, but can't get anything to work.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 05-07-2012 at 10:28 PM..
Reason: code tags
Hi,
I have a file with about 60 lines of path:
app-defaults/boxXYZ.......
I want to change this to /my/path/goes/here/app-defaults/boxXYZ, but of course vi doesn't like the regualr :s/old/new/ command.
Is there any other quick way to do this?
Thanks ;) (2 Replies)
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sed 's/^..//' file1.txt > file2.txt
this will remove the first two characters of each line of a text file, what sed command will remove the last two characters? This is a similar post to my other....sry if I'm being lazy....
I need a file like this (same as last post)
>cat file1.txt
10081551... (1 Reply)
if test -z "$1"
then echo "you must give a filename or filepath"
else path=`dirname $1`
f_name =`basename $1`
if path="."
then path=`pwd`
fi
fi
cat $f_name $path >> index.txt
The only problem I am encountering with this is writing $path to index.txt
Keeps going gaga:
cat:... (1 Reply)
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I'm sure that there is simple solution .. I googled .. it and nothing is coming up ... ( I Tried it as hex 0xE2 no luck )
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FILE1.XML
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pop
triangle
people
slow
fast
What I want to do is search this list and replace people with humans do the list looks like this:
pop
triangle
human
slow
fast
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