You can do that with sed and its s (substitute) command.
For example the following provides a good match:
The delimiter / must not occur in the strings (otherwise another character can be taken).
Two parts of the search expression are in \( \) and can be put back by \1 and \2.
The .* (everything) in between is replaced by the new text.
hi,
i've found a few examples of scripts to do this but for some reason can't get them to work properly.
basically i have some dirs with a few hundred files mixed in with a bunch of other files that were made with a typo in part of them.
long-file-names-tyo-example.ext
want to be able... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to replace the string 'abcd' with 'xyz' in a file sample.xml
This sample.xml is also present in the subdirectories of the current directory.
Eg,
If I am in /user/home/
the sample.xml if present in
/user/home/
/user/home/folder1/
/user/home/folder2/... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have many files scattered in all different folders. I want to replace the text within all the files using a single command ( awk, sed...) Is it possible?
example
find all the files in which there is text "memory" and replace it with "branded_memories".
the files can be at the... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
say I have a few files in a directory (58 text files or somthing)
each one contains mulitple strings that I wish to replace with other strings
so in these 58 files I'm looking for say the following strings:
JAM (replace with BUTTER)
BREAD (replace with CRACKER)
SCOOP (replace... (19 Replies)
HI,
I have some csv files with mutiple extensions, I want to remove all the extensions and keep only the .csv extension.
anybody can suggest me how to do this.
source files
1.txt.csv.txt.csv.csv.txt.csv
2.csv.txt.csv.txt.csv.txt
target
1.csv
2.csv
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From a log file, I want to grep all lines with the pattern "TNS-" but I want to skip those with the pattern "TNS-12514" . How can I do this ? (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I have since given up trying to figure this out and used sed instead, but I am trying to understand awk and was wondering how someone might do this in awk.
I am trying to match on the first field of a specific file with the first field on multiple files, and append the second field... (2 Replies)
I have 4000 files like
$cat clus_grp_seq10_g.phy
18 1002
anig_OJJ65951_1 ATGGTTTCGCAGCGTGATAGAGAATTGTTTAGGGATGATATTCGCTCGCGAGGAACGAAGCTCAATGCTGCCGAGCGCGAGAGTCTGCTAAGGCCATATCTGCCAGATCCGTCTGACCTTCCACGCAGGCCACTTCAGCGGCGCAAGAAGGTTCCTCG
aver_OOF92921_1 ... (1 Reply)
Im having an issue when trying to replace the first column with a new set of values in multiple files. The results from the following code only replaces the files with the last set of values in val.txt. I want to replace all the files with all the values.
for date in {1..31}
do
for val in... (1 Reply)