I've run into this before; and am having a spot of trouble trying to figure out the way that Perl would prefer the following example syntax to be formed:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
`sed -i 's/Hi Mom!\|Hi Dad!/Bye Everyone!/I' ./test.txt`;
Perl doesn't throw a fit; but sed simply looks at you funny and does nothing at all...
So, while there are "sleeker" ways of handling this with pure perl, this type of issue has bugged me for a bit. Any ideas as to how one might pull things together syntaxwise to make it tick over???
is it possible to escape the \ character in sed?
right now I'm trying to replace all occurances of \ with \\
sed \"s|test|test_replacement|g\" file1 > output; #this works fine
sed \"s|\\|\\\|g\" file1 > output; #this generates the following error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 17:... (1 Reply)
I have one File named "txt_file"
# cat txt_file
<DBType>RT</DBType>
<AppType>RT</AppType>
--------------------------------------------------
I want replace "<AppType>RT</AppType>" to
<AppType>XY</AppType> in txt_file and output redirect to Newfile
... (2 Replies)
I am aware that Perl has a lot of features that originally came from sed and awk. I have a pattern that I am using like this:
sed -n '/|Y|/p'
I want to do the same thing in Perl and be able to either save that value in some kind of variable or array or potentially write it out to a file.
... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
How do i write in sed for the 6th and 7th field of etc/passwd file as it involves "/" character?
Does mine below is correct? It's incomplete script as i need help with syntax as i always getting may errors :(
Example of etc/passwd file:
blah:x:1055:600:blah... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a script which uses sed to replace one string with another. The problem is, the string to be matched, and its replacement are coming in as two command line arguments $1 and $2
$1 and $2 can be absolutely anything, but both should be treated purely as strings. My sed command... (7 Replies)
my @array;
my $sepa = "|";
print $sepa;
open FH, "<100_20091023_2.txt";
while(<FH>){
push @array, split(/\$sepa/, $_);
print "@array\n\n";
}
I am not able split the line which have | separated (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am facing an issue with sed in perl. I have a file which has 2 header lines and one trailer line. I need to process the file without these headers and trailer. My file looks like :
File.txt:-
Header1
Header2
data1
data2
trailer
For removing header and trailer from file I am using... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I've got a problem with sed. Want to use it to add escape character \ before $ and ' symbols so
condition='1'$some will become condition=\'1\'\$some
echo "condition='1'$some" | sed 's/\($\)/\\\1/g'
is not working properly. Can somebody help me with this please?
Regards,... (7 Replies)
i have string as below
str=".<date>"
in which i need to replace < with /< , when i tried with sed , got the output.
--> echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'
.\<date>
when i tried to assign it to a variable , i am not getting the same
--> a=`echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'` ; echo $a... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am running ubuntu 16.04
I searched "how to replace dot by % using sed" but no luck.
file
My.Name.Is.Earl
Expected output
My%Name%Is%Earl
I tried:
sed -i "s|.||g" file
sed -i "s|.|{%}|g" file
sed -i "s|.|\%|g" file
I'd appreciate your help
Thank you
Boris (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
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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)
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