The dot pattern is because it's being executed, but it doesn't have the perms to do so yet, which is why I'm trying to prepend chmod before executing it
Understood. What I was indicating was that if the subdirectory foo/x.mak exists it will be matched if ./x.mak is used where if \./x.mak is used it will not.
I guess actually both dots in the pattern should be escaped for correctness:
I want to use sed to check if a short line is contained in the line after it, and if it is, to delete the short one. In other words, the input is...
This is a
This is a line
... and I want it to give me...
This is a line
Here's what I've tried so far: s/\(^.*\)\n\(\1.*$\)/\2/
Also,... (7 Replies)
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)
i have few lines in a file... i am reading them in a while loop so a particular line is held is $line1.. consider a modified line is held in $line2.... i want to replace $line1 with $line2 in the same file... how to do it..?
i have come up till the below code
sed "s/$line1/$line2/g" tmpfile.sql... (5 Replies)
I am trying to find a line in a file ("Replace_Flag") and replace it with a variable which hold a multi lined file.
myVar=`cat myfile`
sed -e 's/Replace_Flag/'$myVar'/' /pathto/test.file
myfile:
cat
dog
boy
girl
mouse
house
test.file:
football
hockey
Replace_Flag
baseball
... (4 Replies)
Hi How Are you?
I am doing fine!
I need to go now?
I will see you tomorrow!
Basically I need to replace the entire line containing "doing" with a blank line:
I need to the following output:
Hi How Are you?
I need to go now?
I will see you tomorrow!
Thanks in advance.... (1 Reply)
my requirement is,
consider a file output
cat output
blah sdjfhjkd jsdfhjksdh
sdfs 23423 sdfsdf sdf"sdfsdf"sdfsdf"""""dsf
hellow there
this doesnt look good
et cetc etc
etcetera
i want to replace a line of line number 4 ("this doesnt look good") with some other line
... (3 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)
Sed command to replace a line in a file using line number from the output of a pipe.
Is it possible to replace a whole line piped from someother command into a file at paritcular line...
here is some basic execution flow..
the line number is 412
lineNo=412
Now i have a line... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Let's say I have a script calling for the two variables PA_VALUE and PB_VALUE.
for pa in PA_VALUE
blah blah
do
for pb in PB_VALUE
blah blah
do
I have a text file with two columns of values for PA and PB.
14.5 16.7
7.8 9.5
5.6 3.6
etc etc
I would like to read this... (7 Replies)