You could use \* instead of * for Str1, similarly escape other metacharacters as needed. I know that's a bother, but certainly doable. Not sure what else to suggest that would work.
Hello,
i have a file like that
foo A new
bar A new
bar B new
I need to replace 'new' with 'done',
but only in lines containing 'bar' AND 'A'.
output file should then become
foo A new
bar A done
bar B new
Sorry im not able to figure it out, not even shure if i should take sed.... (10 Replies)
I am using perl to perform a search and replace. It works at the command line, but not in the csh shell script
perl -pi -e 's@/Pattern@@g' $path/$file
I used the @ as my delimiter because the pattern contains "/" (3 Replies)
This is what I have this far
rsh server1 "cat /home/test.txt |sed s/01-jun-2009/01-aug-2009/ |sed s/ABCD/1234/"
but it is not working is there something I am doing wrong in my syntax?
The file test.txt is the same on all of my 15 servers it has the same length and contents only certain... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
I'd like to be able to rename "sites/WHATEVER/files" to "sites/SOMETHINGELSE/files" within the sql dump.
This is quite easy with sed:
sed -e... (1 Reply)
Hi
I've succesfully downloaded a HTML file from youtube (for a specific video id)
I'm trying to use the SED command to search for double and single quotes and convert them to a line break (new line).
However i'm getting end of file errors when I run this script, can someone help?
I've... (7 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)
Hi All,
I need help in manipulating the data in first column in a file.
The sample data looks like below,
Mon Jul 18 00:32:52 EDT 2011,NULL,UAT
Jul 19 2011,NULL,UAT
1] All field in the file are separated by ","
2] File is having weekly data extracted from database
3] For eg.... (8 Replies)
All, I appreciate any help you can offer here as this is well beyond my grasp of awk/sed...
I have an input file similar to:
&LOG
&LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021855/--F"
&LOG
&LOG
&LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021852/--F"
&LOG Cloning_Action: RETAIN
&LOG Part: "@DB/TCCP000010713/--A"
&LOG
&LOG... (5 Replies)
Hello,
Need a little bit of help. Basically I need to replace lines in a file which were calculated wrong as it would 12 hours to regenerate the data. I need to calculate values based on other files which I've managed to figure out with grep/cut but now am stuck on how to shove these new... (21 Replies)