Well, it seems almost the norm for sed type stuff, but maybe you have not been to vi/ex/sed school!
If you have the gnu sed, you can use -i for update in place, but I would not: disk is cheap and mistakes are expensive, so make new files.
Hi Friends,
Following is an output of a script
OPWQERIUTYKLSADFJHGXZNMCVBWQOPERIUTYKLSADFJHGXZNMCVB
I want to replace above string's 11 to 17 character by ******* (7 stars)
How can it be done?
Please somebody guide me. (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file with many lines with below format:
\abc\\1234
jkl\\567
def\\345
\pqr\\567
\xyz\\234
Here, i need to do 2 things.
1. replace \\ with \
2. remove starting \
so output to be as below: (11 Replies)
I tried to replace the following in vi:
old: 'e/thesis/pp/zones/zones'
new: 'd/so162/fix/pp'
For that, I used: :%s/e/thesis/pp/zones/zones/d/so162/fix/pp/g
but doesn't work, a trailing character error message appeared. How can I get it?
Thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Hi, I have a bash script and I am looking for a command that will merge specific lines together.
Sample Data:
registration time = 1300890272
Id = 1
setd = 0
tagunt = 26
tagId=6, length=8, value=
tagId=9, length=5, value=
tagId=7, length=2, value=
tagId=16, length=2, value=
tagId=32,... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I'm attempting to rename some files that have spaces in them. Without linking sed commands together is it possible to replace the first three "." to " ".
File.name.is.long.ext -> File name is long.ext
I can get the desired effect with
echo "File.name.is.long.ext" | sed 's/\./ /g;s/... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a input of the form:
..., word1, word2, word3...
I want out put of the form
word1, word2, word3
I tried echo '..., word1, word2, word3...' | tr -d '...,'
but that takes out the commas in the middle too so I get
word1 word2 word3
but I want the commas in the middle.
... (3 Replies)
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I have a text file with some lines like this:
/MEDIA/DISK1/23568742.MOV
/MEDIA/DISK1/87456321.AVI
/MEDIA/DISK2/PART1/45753131.AVI
/IMPORT/44452.WAV
...
I want to remove the last 12 characters in each line that it ends "AVI". Should look like this:
/MEDIA/DISK1/23568742.MOV... (12 Replies)
Hi guys, I'm new to bash programming, so please pardon me.
I'm trying to replace an entry's text in Books.txt
This code works perfectly:
sed -i "s/$BookTitle/$NewBookTitle/g" Books.txt
But problem is, if there are double entries, it will also replace that entry. For example:
... (12 Replies)
Hi,
Im using sed on an AIX machine. I am trying to change the 137-139 characters if they are a ' 36'/'000' to a '036'. The positions that need to be changed are fixed.
the source data that I have is$cat v.txt
4000422985400050462239065593606500000007422985707771046154054910075641MC0318AMWAY... (9 Replies)