can someone please help me understand where I'm going wrong..
Yes: This contains syntactical errors. Would it be syntactically correct it would take the first 145 characters (in two groups, 94 and 51 chars) and replaces these by a single space.
Do the following:
You put the first 145 characters into two groups: "\(....\)" is a group each, the first consists of ".\{94\}" (any character, 94 times), the second similarly of 51 chars. This is replaced by: the first group ("\1"), so this is effectively unchanged, then 51 blanks. The rest of the line is left untouched. Notice, that i used "<b>" to denote a blank, otherwise it would be hard to read in the forum.
How can I use sed to replace a ctrl character such as 'new line' (\0a) to something else? Or any other good command can do this job?
Thanks,
Hillxy (5 Replies)
Hi,
I want to replace the srting '; with ABCD'; in a file from line 1 to line 65. Is there any single command to do it without using awk
Thanks for quick reply
https://www.unix.com/images/misc/progress.gif (3 Replies)
Howdy!
I'm trying to automate editing of a configuration file (custom.conf for GDM). I need to find every line between a line that starts with "" and the next line that starts with "", I want to preserve that line, but then delete all the lines in that configuration section and then insert... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a set of strings in filea.
I want to search string xyz in fileb and replace next line in file b with the content from filea.
#cat filea
abc
def
ghi
#cat fileb
asdkjdslka
sajljskdjoi
xyzjjjjkko
aaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbb
cccccccc
xyzsdsajd
dddddddd
eeeeeeee (2 Replies)
Hi,
I require to replace 2 items:
1. replace start of all lines in a file with ' except the first line
2. replace end of all lines in a file with '||chr( except last line
I am able to do the entire file using
sed -e s/^/\'/g -e s/$/\'\|\|chr\(/g "$file" > newfile.txt
but am not yet able... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I require to replace 2 items:
1. replace start of all lines in a file with ' except the first line
2. replace end of all lines in a file with '||chr( except last line
I am able to do the entire file using
sed -e s/^/\'/g -e s/$/\'\|\|chr\(/g "$file" > newfile.txt
but am not yet... (3 Replies)
How can I specify special meaning characters like ^ or $ inside a regex range. e.g
Suppose I want to search for a string that either starts with '|' character or begins with start-of-line character.
I tried the following but it does not work:
sed 's/\(\)/<do something here>/g' file1
... (3 Replies)
I have several files in a directory that look like this:
jacket-n r
potential-n -
outcome-n f
reputation-n b
I want to replace the characters in the second column with certain numbers. For instance, I want the letters 'f', 'r' and 'b' in the second column to replaced with 0 and I want the... (1 Reply)
Trying to use SED to replace numbers that fall into a range but can't seem to get the logic to work and am wondering if SED will do this. I have a file with the following numbers
3
26
20
5. For the numbers that are greater than zero and less than 25, SED would add the word range after the... (7 Replies)
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but for some reason I am struggling with the solution.
I simply want to replace all characters after the first 3 characters with another character, preferably with sed.
Thanks in advance.
Like this, but producing the proper number of *'s:
sed... (30 Replies)
Discussion started by: leolson
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uniq
UNIQ(1) BSD General Commands Manual UNIQ(1)NAME
uniq -- report or filter out repeated lines in a file
SYNOPSIS
uniq [-c | -d | -u] [-i] [-f num] [-s chars] [input_file [output_file]]
DESCRIPTION
The uniq utility reads the specified input_file comparing adjacent lines, and writes a copy of each unique input line to the output_file. If
input_file is a single dash ('-') or absent, the standard input is read. If output_file is absent, standard output is used for output. The
second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent input lines are not written. Repeated lines in the input will not be detected if they are
not adjacent, so it may be necessary to sort the files first.
The following options are available:
-c Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.
-d Only output lines that are repeated in the input.
-f num Ignore the first num fields in each input line when doing comparisons. A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from
adjacent fields by blanks. Field numbers are one based, i.e. the first field is field one.
-s chars
Ignore the first chars characters in each input line when doing comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the -f option, the
first chars characters after the first num fields will be ignored. Character numbers are one based, i.e. the first character is
character one.
-u Only output lines that are not repeated in the input.
-i Case insensitive comparison of lines.
DIAGNOSTICS
The uniq utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
The historic +number and -number options have been deprecated but are still supported in this implementation.
SEE ALSO sort(1)STANDARDS
The uniq utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A uniq command appeared in Version 3 AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD