In general awk is much better suited for these kind of substitutions, but if for some reasen sed is still your prefered choice you could try something like this:
Hi I need to help on finding the below pattern using sed
<b><a href="/home/document.do?assetkey=x-y-abcde-1&searchclause=photo">
and replace as below in the same line on the index file.
<b><a href="/abcde.html">
thx in advance.
Mari (5 Replies)
Hello Everybody,
I am doing something like this on Redhat Linux
h=`cut -d"." -f4 file1`
s=`cut -d"." -f4 file2`
sed "s/$h/$s/g" file3
but this is not working
but if giving constant value its working,
for ex. sed "s/93/$h/g" file3
help...
Thanks for looking into my question (2 Replies)
I have to update a paramater (dateMemLimit) present in a file, with a date (YYYYMMDD) equal to 5 days before the sysdate. The parameter will be in the following format.
dateMemLimit = 20091201
Please note the blank spaces present between 'dateMemLimit' &'=' and between '='... (4 Replies)
Hello all
I have a file with a lot of records...Each one have a ID like this:
000000001 LDR L -----nam--2200217Ia-45e0
000000001 891
000000001 892
000000001 893
and so on
then you have the second record:
000000002 LDR L -----nam--2200208Ia-15e0
000000002 891
000000002... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have two files
file1 :>
val="10"
port="localhost:8080"
httpadd="http:\\192.168.0.239"
file2 :>
val=${val}
port=${port}
httpadd=${httpadd}
fileloc=${fileloc}
file3(or file2) should have following output(input from fileone)
file3 (8 Replies)
I need to do a find and replace. I tried below logic but getting warnings Could you please help?
a=`echo "<!DOCTYPE aaaaa bbbbb \"sample.dtd\">"`
b="<!DOCTYPE aaaaa bbbbb \" /a/b/c/datain/d_k/sample.dtd \">"
echo $a | sed -e "s/$a/$b/" > c.txt
getting the following error
sed:... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file such that:
tart*)*98'bank'ksb64bank)(tart2d&f44bank
I want to replace to: (only between tart and bank)
tart*)*98'replaced'ksb64bank)(tart2d&f44replaced
Thanks. (6 Replies)
The content of the file filea.txt is as follows.
---------
case $HOSTNAME in
aaa)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsDev
APT_Configuration_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configurations/2node.apt
;;
bbb)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsQA... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file as shown below: myFile.dat
#----------------------------------------------------------
dataFile
{
Name shiva;
location Delhi;
travelID IDNumber;
}
4
(
560065
700007
100001
200002
)... (8 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I want to find this 2 strings in a single line a file and replace the second string.
this is the line i need to find
<param name="user" value="CORE_BI"/>
find user and CORE_BI and replace only CORE_BI with admin
so finally the line should look like this.
<param... (5 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)