1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there, may someone easily help me on this : I want to insert a text in a specific line number like : linenumb2start=`cat memory_map.dld | nl -ba | egrep -i "label" | cut -f1` line2insert=`expr $linenumb2start + 2` and now I need to replace something like {} with {comment} at... (8 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, all, I wonder if I can use sed to insert a string which has a colon. I have a txt file a.txt like the following TRAIN/DR1/FCJF0/SI1027.MFC TRAIN/DR1/FCJF0/SI1657.MFC I want to insert a string C:/TIMIT/TIMIT at the begining of each line. I use the commond: TIM=C\:/TIMIT/TIMIT... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

"are you billy_smith ?" replace with "are you billy_smith ? my name is billy_smith" how to fetch the name "billy_smith" and using it later I need sed script to do this, any one can help? Thanks (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I want to insert a string in a specified place of a very large file. I am giving an example of the task: I love football. Above is a sentence in a file and I want to insert a string "the" between love and football. It is not sure that where this particular line exists. It has to... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Good afternoon all, I'm hoping my newbie question can help bolster someone's street_cred.sh today. I'm trying to "fingerprint" SQL on its way into the rdbms for a benchmarking process (so I can tie the resource allocation back to the process more precisely). To do this, I'm essentially... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, newb here :o How do I add square brackets before and after the first character in a string using sed? e.g. 0123456 123456 My attempts have been fruitless. sed 's/.\{0\}//' Thanks. (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

how can i insert a string sush as "###" instead of blank lines in a file? i try this code but it doesn't work! awk 'NF<1 {$1=="###" ; print$0}' in_file > out_file (13 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to read a text file and insert a string every n lines, but also have the line counter restart when I come across a header string. Line repeating working every 3 lines using code: sed '0~3 s/$/\nINSERT/g' < INPUT/PATH/FILE_NAME.txt > OUTPUT/PATH/FILE_NAME.txt I cannot seem to find... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am trying to organize a badly constructed web server. Basically every file is in public_html which is horrendous. There's about 50 images and 20 html files (not counting the css files and pdf docs). I am trying to update each .html file using sed based on: Where string contains *.jpg... (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am having file like this #!/bin/bash read -p 'Username: ' uservar match='<color="red" />' text='this is only a test so please be patient <color="red" />' echo "$text" | sed "s/$match/&$uservar\g" so desireble output what i want is if user type MARIA this is only a test so please... (13 Replies)