Hello
I need to search for a mult-line text in a file exfile1 and replace that text with another text. The text to search for is in exfile2 and the replacement text is in exfile3.
I work with kornshell under AIX and need to do this with a lot of files. (the file type is postscript and they need... (10 Replies)
Hello
I am looking to have a script that performs some tasks for find and replace and inserts a line as well. I have done some programming 10 years ago, so it is causing me a little grief.
File consists of 2500 records. I will show you a sample consisting of two records below and what needs... (3 Replies)
There appears to be several threads that touch on what I'm trying to do, but nothing quite generic enough.
What I need to do is search through many (poorly coded) HTML files and make changes. The catch is that my search string may be on one line or may be on several lines.
For example there... (5 Replies)
Hello
I need to search for a mult-line strngs(with spaces in between and qoted) in a file1 and replace that text with Fixed string globally in file1. The strng to search for is in file2.
The file is big with some 20K records. so speed and effciency is required
file1: (where srch & rplc... (0 Replies)
Hello
I need to search for a mult-line strngs(with spaces in between and qoted) in a file1 and replace that text with Fixed string globally in file1. The strng to search for is in file2.
The file is big with some 20K records. so speed and effciency is required
file1: (where srch & rplc will... (7 Replies)
I have a file with data records separated by multiple equals signs, as below.
==========
RECORD 1
==========
RECORD 2
DATA LINE
==========
RECORD 3
==========
RECORD 4
DATA LINE
==========
RECORD 5
DATA LINE
==========
I need to filter out all data from this file where the... (2 Replies)
hi I am trying to use SED to replace the line matching a pattern using the command
sed 'pattern c\
new line
' <file1 >file 2
I got two questions
1. how do I insert a blank space at the beginning of new line?
2. how do I use this command to execute multiple command using the -e... (5 Replies)
I am trying to find a line in a file ("Replace_Flag") and replace it with a variable which hold a multi lined file.
myVar=`cat myfile`
sed -e 's/Replace_Flag/'$myVar'/' /pathto/test.file
myfile:
cat
dog
boy
girl
mouse
house
test.file:
football
hockey
Replace_Flag
baseball
... (4 Replies)
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA, Dr. Whalley, COP4342 Unix Tools.
This program takes much of my previous assignment but adds the functionality of printing the concatenated line numbers found within the input.
Sample input from <> operator:
Hello World
This is hello
a sample... (2 Replies)