Some versions of sed have options to use EREs instead of BREs which could shorten this considerably. Since you haven't told us what OS you're using, I'll give you the long, portable form (assuming your word delimiters are start of line, end of line, and space characters):
Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-19-2015 at 11:43 AM..
Reason: Change: -e '/s/^Bottle$//' to -e 's/^Bottle$//'
Hi,
Can anyone help me with the text editing I need here. I have a file that contains the following lines for example: (line numbers are for illustration only)
1 Hello world fantasy.
2 Hello worldfuntastic.
3 Hello world wonderful.
I would like to get all those lines of text that... (5 Replies)
Dear Friends,
Anybody knows how to match exact lines only in multilinear.
Input file:
apple
orange
orange
apple
apple
orange
Desired output:
fruit
orange
apple
fruit
i used the command (1 Reply)
Lets say I have file.txt:
(Product:Price:QuantityAvailable) (: as delimiter)
Chocolate:5:5
Banana:33:3
I am doing a edit/update function.
I want to change the Quantity Available, so I tried using the SED command to replace 5, but my Price which is also 5 is changed instead.
(for the Banana... (13 Replies)
This was mistaken as homework in a different forum, but is not. These are questions that are close to what I am trying to do at work.
QUESTION1:
How do you grep only an exact string. I am using Solaris10 and do not have any GNU products installed.
Contents of car.txt
CAR1_KEY0
CAR1_KEY1... (1 Reply)
This post was previously mistaken for homework, but is actually a small piece of what I working on at work. Please answer if you can.
QUESTION1
How do you grep only an exact string. I am using Solaris10 and do not have any GNU products installed.
Contents of car.txt
CAR1_KEY0
CAR1_KEY1... (2 Replies)
I would like replace all the rows in a file if a row has an exact match to number say 21 in a tab delimited file. I want to delete the row only if it has 21 any of the rows but it should not delecte the row that has 542178 or 563421.
I tried this
sed '/\<21\>/d' ./inputfile > output.txt
... (7 Replies)
I have a workaround to the problem i m posting, however if someone wants to look at my query and respond ... i will appreciate.
This is in reference to this thread -> https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/267630-extract-between-two-exact-matched-strings.html
I have data.txt as... (11 Replies)
I am trying to create a cronjob that will run on startup that will look at a list.txt file to see if there is a later version of a database using database.txt as the source. The matching lines are written to output.
$1 in database.txt will be in list.txt as a partial match. $2 of database.txt... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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ppi::token::regexp::match5.18
PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)NAME
PPI::Token::Regexp::Match - A standard pattern match regex
INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::Regexp::Match
isa PPI::Token::Regexp
isa PPI::Token
isa PPI::Element
SYNOPSIS
$text =~ m/match regexp/;
$text =~ /match regexp/;
DESCRIPTION
A "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" object represents a single match regular expression. Just to be doubly clear, here are things that are and
aren't considered a match regexp.
# Is a match regexp
/This is a match regexp/;
m/Old McDonald had a farm/eieio;
# These are NOT match regexp
qr/This is a regexp quote-like operator/;
s/This is a/replace regexp/;
METHODS
There are no methods available for "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token::Regexp, PPI::Token and
PPI::Element classes.
Got any ideas for methods? Submit a report to rt.cpan.org!
SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module.
AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.18.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)