how to use sed command to find and replace a directory
i have a file.. which contains lot of paths ...
for eg.. file contains..
/usr/kk/rr/12345/1
/usr/kk/rr/12345/2
/usr/kk/rr/12345/3
/usr/kk/rr/12345/4
/usr/kk/rr/12345/5
/usr/kk/rr/12345/6
/usr/kk/rr/12345/7... (1 Reply)
Hi, Im very new to the world of sed so I'm really not even sure if this is possible. What i need to do is read from a flat file and every time i see this line:
VAL=123,456
I need to change 456 to 457 for every occurence of this line in the file. The numbers 123 and 456 are different for... (6 Replies)
Okay, title is kind of confusion, but basically, I have a lot of scripts on a server that I need to replace a ps command, however, the new ps command I'm trying to replace the current one with pipes to sed at one point. So now I am attempting to create another script that replaces that line.
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have two files
file1 :>
val="10"
port="localhost:8080"
httpadd="http:\\192.168.0.239"
file2 :>
val=${val}
port=${port}
httpadd=${httpadd}
fileloc=${fileloc}
file3(or file2) should have following output(input from fileone)
file3 (8 Replies)
I need to do a find and replace. I tried below logic but getting warnings Could you please help?
a=`echo "<!DOCTYPE aaaaa bbbbb \"sample.dtd\">"`
b="<!DOCTYPE aaaaa bbbbb \" /a/b/c/datain/d_k/sample.dtd \">"
echo $a | sed -e "s/$a/$b/" > c.txt
getting the following error
sed:... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I need a sed command to find and replace below text in multiple files in a directory.
Original Text :- "$SCRIPT_PATH/files"
Replace with :- "$RESOURCE_FILE"
Thank you in advance !!!
Regards,
Anand Shah (1 Reply)
Hi,
Am trying to replace a character '-' with 'O' in position 289 in my file but am not success with below command.
sed 's/^\(.\{289\}\)-/\1O/' filename
sed: 0602-404 Function s/^\(.\{289\}\)-/\1O/ cannot be parsed.
Thanks in Advance
Sara
Video tutorial on how to use code tags in The... (9 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I did an exhaustive search for finding the script using "sed" to exclude the first line of file during find and replace.
The first line in my file is the header names.
Thanks for your help.. (4 Replies)
File
1,2,33,C,B
3,5,66,K,R
1,2,33,H,M
3,5,66,M,C
6,9,66,J,F
I will use the below command to find and replace in sed, where I'm using variable to find pattern.
while read line
do
sed 's/$line/77/' file
done<inputfile
But here I need to find value in column 3 and... (26 Replies)
I have a file example.txt as follows :SomeTextGoesHere
$$TODAY_DT=20140818
$$TODAY_DT=20140818
$$TODAY_DT=20140818I need to automatically update the date (20140818) in the above file, by getting the new date as argument, using a shell script.
(It would even be better if I could pass... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: SriRamKrish
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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)