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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find text and replace next line.? Post 302910870 by bigdaddywags on Monday 28th of July 2014 05:21:36 PM
Old 07-28-2014
How to find text and replace next line.?
Have multiple files with the same format and certain text is the same. Have specific text to search for and then need to replace the next line. Can search on the text DEVICE and multiple lines will be found. The line after each DEVICE line has {. Want to replace the line { with {-someadditiontext. The problem is that there are other lines that have { and do not want to change them, only the ones that have the word DEVICE in the previous line. How could this be done in a script?

Example of file to be modified:
Code:
DATALIST "Test"
GROUP "Test Group"
DYNAMIC 1 3
DEFAULTS
{
        FILESYSTEM
        {
        }  
        RAWDISK
        {
        }
}
DEVICE "Test Drive"
{
}
DEVICE "Test Drive"
{
}

Last edited by Scott; 07-28-2014 at 06:32 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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drop_text_search_template

DROP TEXT SEARCH 
TEMPLATE(7)				  PostgreSQL 9.2.7 Documentation			      DROP TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE(7)

NAME

       DROP_TEXT_SEARCH_TEMPLATE - remove a text search template

SYNOPSIS

       DROP TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE [ IF EXISTS ] name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

DESCRIPTION

       DROP TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE drops an existing text search template. You must be a superuser to use this command.

PARAMETERS

       IF EXISTS
	   Do not throw an error if the text search template does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.

       name
	   The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing text search template.

       CASCADE
	   Automatically drop objects that depend on the text search template.

       RESTRICT
	   Refuse to drop the text search template if any objects depend on it. This is the default.

EXAMPLES

       Remove the text search template thesaurus:

	   DROP TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE thesaurus;

       This command will not succeed if there are any existing text search dictionaries that use the template. Add CASCADE to drop such
       dictionaries along with the template.

COMPATIBILITY

       There is no DROP TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE statement in the SQL standard.

SEE ALSO

       ALTER TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE (ALTER_TEXT_SEARCH_TEMPLATE(7)), CREATE TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE (CREATE_TEXT_SEARCH_TEMPLATE(7))

PostgreSQL 9.2.7						    2014-02-17					      DROP TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE(7)
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