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)
COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.
EXAMPLES
(echo "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME";
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BSD March 9, 2008 BSD