So if I wanted to replace the occurrences recursively, is that impossible? Was wrong in thinking find and sed could do this?
I don't understand what you're trying to do. Applying your changes to a file recursively would change the following line in a file:
to:
with the "..." replaced by enough copies of "chmod 755 x.mak" to fill up your file system or exceed a file size limit for the file you're modifying.
Find and sed or the shell can modify a file in an infinite number of ways; but the code you showed us doesn't actually make any changes to any file; it just displays modified versions of a potentially huge number of file without saving modifications to any of them.
Please tell us in English exactly what you're trying to do with sample input and desired output. Showing us code that isn't doing what you want to do and making us guess at what you do want to do is not likely to produce working code.
If you're trying something and it is printing an error message, SHOW US THE EXACT ERROR MESSAGE(S).
Tell us what system you're using and what shell you use. Different Linux and UNIX operating systems provide different utilities and different options for common utilities. The shell you use (if we aren't allowed to choose the shell) may greatly limit the choices we have to provide working code.
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)