1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How does one do a search for a multiline regular experssion and output the results to a file. I know this won't work since grep only searches single lines: egrep '<a>.*?</a>' source.xml > output.xml Here are some sample patterns I'd like to match and output to a single file: ... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am writing script that can run on solaris 10, Linux Fedora and windows taht has cybwin installed. I want to display a variable containing muli-line text. using echo command, the variable display all rows in single line i.e. it loses the format. Is there any other command that displays... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a data of the form 0.0117843924 0. 0. 0. 0. 0.011036017 0. 0. 0. 0. 0.0103351669 0. 0. 0. 0. 4839.41211 0. 0. 0. 0. 4532.08203 0. 0. 0. 0. I would like to insert a couple of blank lines before the 4839 line, every time it appears. The numbers in the... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file of the following from: Afghanistan gdpcapit|800 Akrotiri Albania gdpcapit|6000 now I want have the gdpcapit value next to the country when there is one like this: Afghanistan 800 gdpcapit|800 Akrotiri Albania 6000 gdpcapit|6000 How do I do this? I've... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

My shell is csh and it is required. I have a file like sample.txt ------------------------ a b c d e f g h i ------------------------ I want set the file to a variable and print it out in the same format. I have tried something like this, but not succed. % cat ~/tmp/sample.txt a b c d... (8 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey everyone, I'm new to sed and I need to create a script for inserting one line of code at the beginning of every method in a Xcode project (over 6,000 methods). Each method Structure is (+ or -) (Various declarations-- could span multiple lines) ({) I've tried for days, any guidance would be... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Experts, I am novice unix user. At my work, most of our DBA's work on creating DDL's to create new tables in production. At every week we need to validate the scripts (do peer review) and it takes a while and also it is not effective when we have like 150 tables created in the scripts. I am... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi We have a database export file which needs to be formatted as below InputCreate view ABC1 as Locking ABC1 for Access select * from PQR Create view ABC2 as Locking ABC2 for access select * from PQR Create view ABC3 as Locking ABC3 for Access select * from PQR OutputCreate... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I am fairly comfortable with using the sed command if the string to be replaced is all on a single line. I was wondering is it possible to use sed command in a multiline way ? Say for example I have the below string on 2 different lines: { "key": "brandNameA", ... (3 Replies)