Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Replace String With Newline
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace String With Newline Post 302712619 by alister on Tuesday 9th of October 2012 11:23:13 AM
Old 10-09-2012
To edit the file itself (have a backup copy handy just in case):
Code:
printf '%s\n' '1,$s/^  *//' '1,$s/  *$//' 'g/^<PRODUCT / .,/^<\/PRODUCT>/j' w | ed -s file

In heredoc format:
Code:
ed -s file <<'EOED'
1,$s/^  *//
1,$s/  *$//
g/^<PRODUCT / .,/^<\/PRODUCT>/j
w
EOED

If you rather not modify the original file, ed's write command, w, accepts an optional filename argument. Alternatively, you can create a copy with cp and edit that.

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 10-09-2012 at 12:29 PM.. Reason: Added command to delete trailing spaces
This User Gave Thanks to alister For This Post:
Ste_Moore01
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

replace a newline (\n)

dear all: maybe i have a file like : 12 34 56 78 end how do write can i replace newline into NA : make the file inte : 12 NA 34 NA 56 78 END (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jeter
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace comma with newline

Hi, for some reason I cant seem to figure this out. I have a file which looks something like this word word word word word,word,word word word word,word,word,word,word word word Basically I want this whole thing to be a list with 1 word on each line like this... word word word... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: eltinator
1 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

replace string with a newline string

Hi, I wanted to replace these lines in vi editor: input-- uid=ESVPEME | eriMasterDomain=EAMCS | eriCountry=El | ou=ESV uid=EPYCAR | eriMasterDomain=EAMCS | eriCountry=Argentina | ou=CEA uid=ERCFGA | eriMasterDomain=EAMCS | eriCountry=Costa | ou=ERC uid=EDGLUCU | eriMasterDomain=EAMCS... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: hegdeshashi
5 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace a string with newline

Hi all I have the problem to substitute a string with newline in Perl. Can anybody help me? And also how to replace a string with opening bracket (e.g. (START ) with a whitespace/null character? Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: my_Perl
1 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

replace text string with a newline

I want to replace a text string with a newline. I have a long text file of random characters. I want to replace all the occurences of "pe" with a newline. How can I do that in Unix? There's a thread from 2004 saying that you can do something like this with sed by actually pressing the return... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aaronpoley
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help with sed matching <tag1> newline spaces <tag2> and replace the value in the same string format

Hi, I'm very new to shell scripting and have searched google and this forum for quite some time now. I have the following in my xml file: <recipients> <member>value1</member> </recipients> I need to find a string <recipients> that follows with a new-line and bunch of spaces and... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mgharios
5 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

replace >< with > newline <

Hi All, I have the command in PERL for performing this, but Can you please suggest me how can i perform this using AWK: My input xml file looks like this: <aaa>hello</aaa><bbb>hai</bbb> I want the output like this ( means need new line after end of each xml tag): <aaa>hello</aaa>... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: HemaV
1 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace newline with comma.

I have output from a file like this: 15,01,11,14:06 235 I would like to change this to: 15,01,11,14:06,235 Removing newline and change to "," I now this can be done with tr cat OUT | tr '\n' ','' My problem is that tr is not implemented in this shell. sed is, show it should be... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jotne
7 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace newline in a string

I have a string like below: {\rtf1\fbidis\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 MS Sans Serif;}{\f1\fnil MS Sans Serif;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\ltrpar\lang2057\f0\fs16 19/11/2010 SOME DESCRIPTION. \par \lang1033\f1\par } I have to replace the newline character with null in the... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pratik4891
8 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Replace string including newline

Hi, I am trying to do some transformation on a large file and I am getting some troubles trying remove newlines only when the last character of a line is a symbol (in this case is a pipe "|"). I have tried with sed like this: sed -i 's/|\n/|/g' my_file or sed -i 's/|$/|/gg' my_file... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ngb
5 Replies

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

graphics::primitive::insets

Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME

       Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things

DESCRIPTION

       Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something.  This object can be used to represent either padding
       or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside)

SYNOPSIS

	 use Graphics::Primitive::Insets;

	 my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({
	   top	   => 5,
	   bottom  => 5,
	   left    => 5,
	   right   => 5
	 });

METHODS

   Constructor
       new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets.

   Instance Methods
       as_array
	   Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left.

       bottom
	   Set/Get the inset from the bottom.

       equal_to
	   Determine if these Insets are equal to another.

       left
	   Set/Get the inset from the left.

       right
	   Set/Get the inset from the right.

       top Set/Get the inset from the top.

       zero
	   Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0.

AUTHOR

       Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>"

SEE ALSO

       perl(1)

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.3							    2010-08-21					  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:47 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy