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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search replace strings between single quotes Post 302676625 by balajesuri on Wednesday 25th of July 2012 02:17:45 AM
Old 07-25-2012
Code:
sed -i 's:'\''[^'\'']*'\'':'\''/data2/test_dir/test.log'\'':' file

If that doesn't work, you may use "the orbiting laser gun" for sparking a camp fire (someone on this forum quoted this humourous line :-P)
Code:
perl -pe 's:\047.*?\047:\047/data2/test_dir/test.log\047:' file


Last edited by balajesuri; 07-25-2012 at 03:24 AM..
 

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qpid-python-test(1)						   User Commands					       qpid-python-test(1)

NAME
qpid-python-test - run tests of the python QPID library for a broker SYNOPSIS
qpid-python-test [options] PATTERN ... DESCRIPTION
Run tests matching the specified PATTERNs. OPTIONS
-h, --help show this help message and exit -l, --list list tests instead of executing them -b BROKER, --broker=BROKER run tests against BROKER (default localhost) -f FILE, --log-file=FILE log output to FILE -v LEVEL, --log-level=LEVEL only display log messages of LEVEL or higher severity: DEBUG, WARN, ERROR (default WARN) -c CATEGORY, --log-category=CATEGORY log only categories matching CATEGORY pattern -m MODULES, --module=MODULES add module to test search path -i IGNORE, --ignore=IGNORE ignore tests matching IGNORE pattern -I IFILE, --ignore-file=IFILE ignore tests matching patterns in IFILE -H, --halt-on-error halt if an error is encountered -t, --time report timing information on test run -D DEFINE, --define=DEFINE define test parameters SEE ALSO
For more information on qpid-python-test please check the QPID wiki at http://qpid.apache.org. Apache QPID October 2011 qpid-python-test(1)
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