Gurus,
I have in my /tmp directory 26 files "filea", "fileb"..."filez". Each file contains the name of a database 'dwora' at many, many places within each file.
My boss decided to change the name of the db so I need to do (what i'd call) a global search&replace of that string in all my... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a dir containing many shell scripts. Each of these shell scripts state a database name (always the same), which I need to change to be a new database.
grep <database name> * brings back all the lines containing the database name. However, I need to change them to be something... (1 Reply)
I have a file where the rows correspond to individuals and the columns are about 106 variables. Each variable is coded as either ACGT, and "missing" is coded as blank. This is a tab delimited file. I'm trying to replace all blanks (" ") with 0. The simple script I have is only replacing some of the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to change some strings from A to B in a number of files within a directory. Please can someone advise how do I do that?
Many thanks (5 Replies)
Hi all
I'm in need of a command which can replace a specified string with another string - across multiple files within multiple sub-directories (I intend to run it from / )
I've used the following to get a list of the files:
find . | xargs grep <string1>
But that's as far as I've got.... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to replace a string of words but i dont want to worry about escaping the characters in that string .
For e.g. If my string is "work/" and i want to replace it with "nowork" .I have to type
%s/work\//nowork/g
Is there a way by which I wont need to worry about the data in... (1 Reply)
I am wondering what way, I can remove a certain text with nothing.
for example:
MyVariable=Y7UHNI
to only:
Y7UHNI
removing 'MyVariable=' globally?
thanks (1 Reply)
I have a script with a whole lot of different functions and want to set teh script so that at any point a key or series of keys can be pressed to exit out and into the main menu function. Rather this than endlessly creating, 'Return to main' menus.
Something along the lines of Ctrl+q for example... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm trying to read the variable "pause" from a for loop without luck. The function is dependant on the outcome of the test within the loop. If i run this, pause is always 0 within the function. Any ideas?
Thanks.
pause=0
users=1
(for (( ; ; ))
do
speed=`cat speed.log`
... (7 Replies)
Hello -
I am trying to use a global replace command but its not working.
Here is the cmd I am using in vi:
:%s/OLD/NEW/g
However, in my "NEW" I already have a "/" which is not making the replace work:
:%s/mytestscript.com:33232/mytestscript:70245/test.com/g
the... (2 Replies)