Hi,
I want to be able to list all the names in a file which begin with a capital letter, but I don't want it to list words that begin a new sentence. Is there any way round this?
Thanks for your help. (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am trying to filter the words from a file which contain 'abc'. But I am unable to. Could any one help me.
For eg: The file contents are
123ab 12hnj1 123abc456 123cgbcahjkf23 23134abchfhj43 gc32abc abc1 2abc3 sd uiguif fhwe 21242 uh123 jkcas124d123 u3hdbh23u ffsd8
Output... (3 Replies)
How can I delete those lines that starts with a certain letter?
abc def ghi
xyz abc def
ace gik moq
abe imq gxm
I want to delete the line that starts with "x". Thanks! (4 Replies)
Hello,
I need a script to do the following:
I have a file filled of lines like:
valu -> value
confirmaton -> confirmation
I need a script to compare the first and last letters of the words, for example for the line:
valu -> value
compare "v" to "v" and "u" to "e" and print the line... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to make an script using sed that removes everything between 'begin' (including the line that has it) and 'end1' or 'end2', not removing this line.
Let me paste an 2 examples:
anything before
any string begin
few lines of content
end1
anything after
anything before
any... (4 Replies)
hey :)
if i have a variable that is
example=lewisdenny(copywrite symbol)
so its not a nomal letter but a symbol, how can i remove everything in the varible that isnt letter or number thanks :)
and as a side little question do you know how to remove .zip from a file like if i
ls... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to acheive the following, I have a dat file in which i have several addresses, If the address starts with a single digit then i have to delete the line,
if it starts with 2 or more digits then i have to keep the line
Here is a sample of my file:
377 CARRER DE LA... (5 Replies)
I need to use bash to convert sentences where all words start with a small letter into one where all words start with a capital letter.
So that a string like:
are utilities ready for hurricane sandy
becomes:
Are Utilities Ready For Hurricane Sandy (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have written the following python snippet to store the capital letter starting words into a dictionary as key and no of its appearances as a value in this dictionary against the key.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import re
hash = {} # initialize an empty dictinonary
for line in... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have this text file with these words and I need help with removing words with repeated letter from these lines.
1 ama
5 bib
29 bob
2 bub
5 civic
2 dad
10 deed
1 denned
335 did
1 eeee
1 eeeee
2 eke
8... (4 Replies)
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shtool-subst
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)