1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone tell me how I can do this? e.g: Say file1.txt contains: today is monday the 22 of NOVEMBER 2010 and file2.txt contains: the 11th month of How do i replace the word NOVEMBER with (5 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone tell me how I can do this? e.g: a=$(echo -e wert trewt ertert ertert ertert erttert erterte rterter tertertert ert) How do i replace the STRING with $a? I try this: sed -i 's/STRING/'"$a"'/g' filename.ext but this don' t work (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys. I know pratically 0 about Linux, so could anyone please give me instructions on how to accomplish this ? The distro is RedHat 4.1.2 and i need to find and replace a multiple lines string in several php files across subdirectories. So lets say im at root/dir1/dir2/ , when i execute... (12 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have this: 301205 0000030000041.49000000.00 2011111815505 908 301205 0000020000029.10000000.00 2011111815505 962 301205 0000010000027.56000000.00 2011111815505 3083 312291 ... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to remove lines once a string is found till another string is found including the start string and end string. I want to basically grab all the lines starting with color (closing bracket). PS: The line after the closing bracket for color could be anything (currently 'more').... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have file input aa,20120626 bb,45Cexpect to remove all lines when $2 doesn't end with 'C" output bb,45Ci tried this sed -i -nl -e '/\<C\>/ {p;} ' file1 but the result : sed illegal option -i (5 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Gurus, I am relatively new to Unix scripting and am struck with a problem in my script. I have positional input file which has a FLAG indicator in at position 11 in every record of the file. If the Flag has value =Y, then the record from the input needs to be written to a new file.However if... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Guys, I need to replace a string with multiple lines. For eg:- ABC,DEF,GHI,JKL,MNO,PQR,STU need to convert the above as below:- ABC,DEF, GHI1 GHI2 GHI3, JKL,MNO, PQR1 PQR2 PQR3, STU i have tried using code as:- (2 Replies)

9. Linux

I have a file that looks like this: DIP-27772N DIP-18408N refseq:NP_523941 DIP-23436N|refseq:NP_536784 DIP-23130N|refseq:NP_652017 DIP-22958N|refseq:NP_651195 DIP-20072N|refseq:NP_724597 DIP-22928N|refseq:NP_569972 DIP-22042N|refseq:NP_536744|uniprotkb:P54622... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm trying to remove the duplicate consecutive lines with specific string "WARNING". File.txt abc; WARNING 2345 WARNING 2345 WARNING 2345 WARNING 2345 WARNING 2345 bcd; abc; 123 123 123 WARNING 1234 WARNING 2345 WARNING 2345 efgh; (6 Replies)