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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How can I replace the lines that start with a star and replace it with numbers start from 1? Post 302924276 by MadeInGermany on Friday 7th of November 2014 01:27:31 PM
Old 11-07-2014
You better escape the special character \*
sed is not the right tool for this. The = command is mainly for debugging.
Of course - everything is possible
Code:
sed = list | sed 'N;s/\n\*//'

awk or the shell's while loop do this better. With awk:
Code:
awk '{$1=NR; print}' list

Shell:
Code:
i=0; while read first other; do echo "$((i+=1)) $other"; done < list

Last edited by MadeInGermany; 11-07-2014 at 02:39 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

replace

REPLACE(1)						      General Commands Manual							REPLACE(1)

NAME

       replace	-  A utility program that is used by msql2mysql, but that has more general applicability as well. replace changes strings in place
       in files or on the standard input. Uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. Can be used to swap strings.

USAGE

       replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... -- [files]

       or

       replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... < fromfile > tofile

SYNOPSIS

       replace [-?|-I] [-s] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       replace

       -?|-I  info

       -s     silent

       -v     verbose

EXTRA INFO

       Special characters in from string:

       ^     Match start of line.

       $     Match end of line.

            Match space-character, start of line or end of line. For a end  the next replace starts locking at the end space-character.  A	
	      alone in a string matches only a space-character.

EXAMPLE

       this command swaps a and b in the given files:

       shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...

SEE ALSO

       isamchk	(1),  isamlog (1), mysqlaccess (1), mysqladmin (1), mysqlbug (1), mysqld (1), mysqldump (1), mysqlshow (1), msql2mysql (1), perror
       (1), replace (1), safe_mysqld (1), which1 (1), zap (1),

AUTHOR

       Ver 1.0, distribution 3.23.29a Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@tcx.se), TCX Datakonsult AB (http://www.tcx.se).	This software  comes  with
       no  warranty.  Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mer-
       curmedia.com)

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