I should have said BREs rather than back references, but the times I most often see a sed substitute command fail is when I'm using back references. On the Linux sed man page provided in these forums, you'll find:
I don't currently have access to a Linux system and I can't give a clear statement of what POSIX.2 BRE features are not supported by the Linux sed utility, but I have seen several cases in these forums where a standards conforming sed script (such as the one protocomm posted in this thread:
or a similar suggestion I would have made until I saw protocomm's suggestion and the statement that it didn't work:
) fail on the GNU utilities version of sed but work as specified by the standards with an AIX, HP/UX, OS X, or Solaris system sed utility.
Don Cragun, your line code works fine on my macbook.
I want to delete lines like this
sed '/FROM_HERE/,/TO_HERE/d'
but I would like to *not* delete the second match, i.e. the TO_HERE line. How can I achieve this?
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Friends,
I have .txt file with following format.
START
ABC|Prashant1|Patel1
ABC|Prashant2|Patel2
ABC|Prashant1|Patel1
ABC|Prashant2|Patel2
END
I would like to do:
1) Delete line with START
2) Delete line with END
3) Remove ABC|
4) Delete duplicate records
The following command... (7 Replies)
Hi, I've searched in this forum all day long but was not able to find enough codes to help me do a task. The only code that I can come up with is this:
sed '/ /,/ /{//p;d;}' inputfile > outputfile
I would like to sed/awk/grep a file for two patterns and then delete the lines between... (4 Replies)
I have to read the file, in each line of file i need to get 2 values using more than one search pattern.
ex: <0112 02:12:20 def > /some string/some string||some string||124
i donot have same delimiter in the line, I have to read '0112 02:12:20' which is timestamp, and last field '124' which is... (4 Replies)
Hi, if in between strings "<section" and "</section>" across multiple lines there occurs the string "ole-present", delete all line breaks and replace any tabs or multiple spaces with a single space. Looking for an AWK or SED solution. Thank you.
<section ...
status = "ole-present"
...... (2 Replies)
Hello all
I have a file my DNS server where there are duplicate paragrapsh like below. How can I remove the duplicate paragraph so that only one paragraph remains.
BEGIN;
replace into domains (name,type) values ('225.168.192.in-addr.arpa','MASTER');
replace into records (domain_id,... (2 Replies)
Hi,
i need help to delete all the lines between 2 matched patterns and the first pattern must be deleted too. sample as follows:
inputfile.txt
>kump_1
...........................
...........................
>start_0124
dgfhghgfh
fgfdgfh
fdgfdh
>kump_2
............................. (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have multiple files in my log folder. e.g:
a_m1.log
b_1.log
c_1.log
d_1.log
b_2.log
c_2.log
d_2.log
e_m1.log
a_m2.log
e_m2.log
I need to keep latest 10 instances of each file.
I can write multiple find commands but looking if it is possible in one line.
m file are monthly... (4 Replies)
so my output is this:
session_closed=157
session_opened=151
session_closed=18
session_opened=17
there are two patterns here, but with different values. the two patterns are "session_opened" and "session_closed". i expect there will be many more other patterns.
what i want to do is... (8 Replies)
Delete patterns matching
OS version: RHEL 7.3
Shell : Bash
I have a file like below (pattern.txt). I need to delete all lines starting with the following words (words separated by comma below) and ) character.
LOGGING, NOCOMPRESS, TABLESPACE , PCTFREE, INITRANS, MAXTRANS, STORAGE,... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: John K
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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)