Try with GNU awk (or mawk):
With regular awk you could try
But that would break if there is so much as a single +-sign in the record.
You could try replacing the +++ with a single character first if you know for sure that it will not occur in the text.
Anyway, probably best to use something like this:
--
@Bakunin: very nice, but it would not work for the last record in the file.
@Yoda: also would not work for the last record and it prints the next "+++ header"..
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All,
Here is what I am searching for using sed.
1 00640000106798
I want to replace that with the following.
8 0064B0000106798
I can do this easy enough from the command line using sed but I need to put the search string in a file and then execute the sed command within a... (2 Replies)
hi all,
I am trying to do search on a gzip file. The file has
<pattern1>
Data..
<pattern2>
data
<pattern1>
data
<patter2>
I want to print each pattern 1 and the corrresponding pattern2. If pattern 2 fails to appear and pattern 1 appears, I do not want to print pattern1 and... (3 Replies)
Hi,
At first I want to please you to provide the solution with grep/sed if possible. :cool:
File looks like:
wished result:
so I want in a new file
BLUE@@RED
string from first line like:
grep "/folder_start" cs_src > tmp1
string from second line:
grep "/main" cs_src... (14 Replies)
Need help with either sed or awk to acheive the following
file1
-----
In the amazon forest
The bats eat all the time...
mon tue wed they would eat berries
In the tropical forest
The bats eat all the time...
on wed bats eat nuts
In the rain forest
The bats eat all the time...
on... (2 Replies)
I have a file
DS1
DDS
DS
I want to replace only "DS" to "DSmail.blah.com" in a lot of files. I tried
sed 's/DS/DSmail.blah.com' but it changes all the lines .
thanks in advance (2 Replies)
I am trying to search the pattern "ARS (11)" and after the LAST pattern, i am trying to open new line and enter text using sed.
My Existing Text file is Users.txtpaul, Paul Smith, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
sam, Sam Martin, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
mike, Mike Conway, Stevn... (8 Replies)
Dear Unix Forum Group Members,
Please do let me know how I can replace the double pipe with single pipe recursively on single record.
Sample Input Data:
DN set|Call prefix||| Called number address nature
0||| *789|||||||ALL number types
0||| 00||||||||ALL number types
10||... (5 Replies)
Hi !
I want to search a string in all lines with sed. If that string is there, i want to look for an other string in the next line.If that string is there i want to put an other line under it.
eg:
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
cat bla.txt | sed -e '/aaa/a\' -e ' \!!!'
in the upper case, i would... (6 Replies)
Hello.
I would like to search exactly "string1.string2.string3" and replace it by "new_string1.new_string2.new_string3"
And
I would like to search exactly "string2.string3" and replace it by "new_string2.new_string3"
And
I would not found in the result : "string1.new_string2.new_string3"... (3 Replies)
Hi -
i have one file with content as below.
***** BEGIN 123 *****
BASH is awesome
***** END *****
***** BEGIN 365 *****
KSH is awesome
***** END *****
***** BEGIN 157 *****
KSH is awesome
***** END *****
***** BEGIN 7123 *****
C is awesome
***** END *****
I am trying to find all... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: reldb
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)