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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing specific characters using sed Post 302749565 by vnayak on Friday 28th of December 2012 03:12:45 PM
Old 12-28-2012
Apple Replacing specific characters using sed
Hi,

I have a text file which is output from a server and it lists all the files in a specific volume. However, the volume name appears as volume_name:.
I would like to replace this with \\volume_name\volume_name. This is not a problem in itself as I can use sed to globally look for the volume_name: pattern in the text file and replace it with the correct string.

However, since there are many volume names in different text files and the process to replace them is exactly the same, I was thinking of a more generic solution.

So at the moment the format goes like this:

Code:
^volume_name:\folder_name\folder_name^

Is it possible to use sed to analyse the characters from between ^ and \ and then replace them with \\volume_name\volume_name minus the colon. The ^ sign is the delimiter in this file.

Any suggestion most appreciated.

Regards,

vnayak
 

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untex

UNTEX(1)						      General Commands Manual							  UNTEX(1)

NAME

       untex - strip LaTeX comands from input

SYNOPSIS

       untex [ options ] [ files ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Untex removes some LaTeX commands from the files listed in the arguments (or standard input) and prints the output to standard output.

OPTIONS

       -      read from standard input.

       -o     remove options to LaTeX commands, i. e. everything in brackets [] behind a command.

       -i     process "include{file}" and "input{file}" and "input file" commands.

       -m     (try to) remove all math code.

       -u     replace all "a (etc.) with ibm (CP850) characters.

       -uiso  replace all "a (etc.) with ISO characters.

       -uascii
	      replace all "a (etc.) with ascii characters.

       -g     replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ibm (CP850) characters.

       -giso  replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ISO characters.

       -gascii
	      replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ascii characters.

       -e     remove environment names.

       -a     remove arguments of commands (not recommended).

       -g implies -u, -a implies -o.

SEE ALSO

       latex, tex, detex

BUGS

       The  -g	and  -u options only work for german accented characters. Not fixed due to lack of time, any help is appreciated. The includeonly
       command is ignored.

       Using -u option in a UTF-8 terminal doesn't work. Using it alone in a Latin1 terminal doesn't work either, you must also add -uiso.

AUTHORS

       Untex was written by Michael Staats (michael@hal6000.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE). The -gascii and -uascii options  were  added	by  Denis  Endisch
       (denis@smoky.ikf.physik.uni-frankfurt.de).   Thanks to Subhasish Mazumdar (mazumdar@ringer.cs.utsa.edu) for some hints for improvements and
       bug reports.

4th Berkeley Distribution				     Version 1.2 1994 April 6							  UNTEX(1)
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