[SOLVED] sed to replace a line with multi lines from a var
I am trying to find a line in a file ("Replace_Flag") and replace it with a variable which hold a multi lined file.
myfile:
cat
dog
boy
girl
mouse
house
test.file:
football
hockey
Replace_Flag
baseball
What I'd like to see is:
football
hockey
cat
dog
boy
girl
mouse
house
baseball
The above command works if "myVar" is a signal line. example:
or a line with the new line deliminators
I also tried reformating the variable.
thus making it look like this: cat dog boy girl mouse house
however that did not work either.
any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks
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new line
' <file1 >file 2
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I have no experience in Unix so any help would be appreciated
I have the flowing text
235543
123
45654
199
225
578
45654
199
225
I need to find this sequence from A file
45654
199
225 (22 Replies)
Literally cannot get this one, guys. Single line replacement is simple, but I am not understanding the correct syntax for including a new line feed into the substitution part.
Here's what I got. (Cannot use perl)
#!/bin/sh
set -f
#Start Perms
export HOME=/home/test_user
# End Perms... (6 Replies)
Dear Unix Forums,
I am hoping you can help me with a pattern matching problem.
What am I trying to do?
I want to replace multiple lines of a text file (that match a multi-line pattern) with a single line of text. These patterns can span several lines and do not always have the same number of... (10 Replies)
I have text file like below:
a.txt
Server=abc
Run=1
Time=120.123
Tables=10
Sessions=16
Time=380.123
Version=1.1
Jobs=5
Server=abc
Run=2
Time=160.123
Tables=15
Sessions=16
Time=400.258
Version=2.0 (1 Reply)
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replace
REPLACE(1) MySQL Database System REPLACE(1)NAME
replace - a string-replacement utility
SYNOPSIS
replace arguments
DESCRIPTION
The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the standard input.
Invoke replace in one of the following ways:
shell> replace from to [from to] ... -- file_name [file_name] ...
shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file_name
from represents a string to look for and to represents its replacement. There can be one or more pairs of strings.
Use the -- option to indicate where the string-replacement list ends and the file names begin. In this case, any file named on the command
line is modified in place, so you may want to make a copy of the original before converting it. replace prints a message indicating which
of the input files it actually modifies.
If the -- option is not given, replace reads the standard input and writes to the standard output.
replace uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. It can be used to swap strings. For example, the following command swaps
a and b in the given files, file1 and file2:
shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...
The replace program is used by msql2mysql. See msql2mysql(1).
replace supports the following options.
o -?, -I
Display a help message and exit.
o -#debug_options
Enable debugging.
o -s
Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
o -v
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
o -V
Display version information and exit.
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MySQL 5.5 01/30/2014 REPLACE(1)