I am working on one script which needs to read the input from the file and replace the words using sed command. For each line in the input file It should create one file. Below is the code. I can see the for loop is working fine but instead of three files it is creating one file
dear guys,
I want to replace the beginning of some lines in a file by (,)
The sequence number of lines is located in a file named numbers
so, i used this simple script to do so, but it didn't work. it does'nt recognize the $j in the command sed
#! /bin/sh
for j in `cat numbers`
do
sed '$j... (6 Replies)
Okay, title is kind of confusion, but basically, I have a lot of scripts on a server that I need to replace a ps command, however, the new ps command I'm trying to replace the current one with pipes to sed at one point. So now I am attempting to create another script that replaces that line.
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Hi there,
I have 1 file with different 144 lines and 144 files that I want to change with a sed.
What I want to do is to go trough the file with the 144 different lines take the line a replace a certain pattern with said in the first file of the folder where the 144 files are. Take the second... (3 Replies)
Hi,
im having problem creating a loop using my code: aside from the fact that the 1st variable (VAR) does not increment, it loops more than the expected output.
for sample purposes, test csv contains 3 lines.
#get number of lines in the file
lines=$( wc -l < test.csv )
... (5 Replies)
I have a file with just over 1 million lines. I am trying to write a script that will find 1400 instances of two particular patterns and insert a url on the 22nd line after the second pattern is matched. Each line in the text file corresponds to a particular check box or dropdown in the software... (3 Replies)
I have a file MAT.txt which contains the following data:
mat1.txt
mat2.txt
.
.
.
.
mat100.txt
I want to remove the '.txt' from every line and have an output file with the following data:
mat1
mat2
.
.
.
.
mat100
I know this can be done with sed easily for each line, but I do... (8 Replies)
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I have a requirement to search a log file that never rotates for certain values. If I find them I pipe them to a another file. To log file is constanyl being appened with new lines and never rotating Easy so far.
The problem is I dont want to pipe out matches already seen before. ... (3 Replies)
Hello
I have a group of files
a1.profile a2.profile a3.profile a4.profile b1.profile b2.profile b3.profile b4.profile These files all have the same first line with a value s1 atop the columns
s1_context s1_ref s1_sample s1_% etc I am trying to use sed in a for loop to replace the s1 in the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file called 1.txt, I want to create 2.txt through 100.txt using a for loop. In each instance of the loop, I want to change all "1"'s in the text file to "2"s and so on...
I tried the code below to do this:
for i in {2..100}; do sed 's/1/$i/g' 1.txt > $i.txt; done
but it... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am running a script sample.sh in bash environment .In the script i am using sed and awk commands which when executed individually from terminal they are getting executed normally but when i give these sed and awk commands in the script it is giving the below errors :-
./sample.sh: line... (12 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)