You're falling victim to the greedy match. Have a go with this:
Only tried it on your sample and one other contrived example, so it might not be perfect. I also prefer using -E to avoid escaping parens which just make it messy. If you are using a BSD based sed it'll be a different (-r or -R, I cannot remember and my BSD box isn't up right now).
Last edited by agama; 10-15-2012 at 09:19 PM..
Reason: small tweek to ensure *< and not just <tag
I need to replace the line containing "STAGE_DB" with the line
"STAGE_DB $DB # database that contains the table being loaded ($workingDB)"
Here $DB is passed during the runtime.
How can I do this?
Thanks,
Kousikan (2 Replies)
I have a text file and every line ends in
|^
|^^
|^^^
|^^^^
I need to use sed to make all lines end it
|^
regardless of the amount of carrots.
The code i was using is:
cat FILE | sed 's/\^\^\^/\^/g'
But then they threw that curveball at me. Also is there a way to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have an sqlplus output file using the character ';' as a delimiter and I would like to replace the fields without datas (i.e delimited by ';;') by ';0;'
Example: my sqlplus output:
11;22;33;44;;;77;;
What I would like to have:
11;22;33;44;0;0;77;0;
Thanks in advance for your... (2 Replies)
I have a file with multiple lines like this:
<junk><PATTERN><junk><PATTERN><junk>
<junk><PATTERN><junk><PATTERN><junk><PATTERN><junk>
Note that
1. There might be variable number occurrences of PATTERN in a line.
2. <> are just placeholders, they do not form part of the pattern.
I need... (4 Replies)
Hi How Are you?
I am doing fine!
I need to go now?
I will see you tomorrow!
Basically I need to replace the entire line containing "doing" with a blank line:
I need to the following output:
Hi How Are you?
I need to go now?
I will see you tomorrow!
Thanks in advance.... (1 Reply)
Hi
I know sed and awk has options to give range of line numbers, but
I need to replace pattern in specific lines
Something like
sed -e '1s,14s,26s/pattern/new pattern/' file name
Can somebody help me in this....
I am fine with see/awk/perl
Thank you in advance (9 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve.. i have a file with below contents
cat fileName
blah blah blah
.
.DROP this
REJECT that
.
--sport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
--dport 7800 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
.
.
.
more blah blah blah
--dport 3306... (14 Replies)
All, I appreciate any help you can offer here as this is well beyond my grasp of awk/sed...
I have an input file similar to:
&LOG
&LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021855/--F"
&LOG
&LOG
&LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021852/--F"
&LOG Cloning_Action: RETAIN
&LOG Part: "@DB/TCCP000010713/--A"
&LOG
&LOG... (5 Replies)
Hello All,
I have data like this in a column.
0
1
2
3
0
3
4
5
6
0
1
2
3
etc. where 0 identifies the start of a pattern in my data.
So I need the output like below using either awk/sed.
0 1 (2 Replies)
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)