I guess the longer search string is not the problem as it would not modify the shorter one; it is vice versa. The real discriminator is the dot in front of "string2". Try
It would leave three element addresses alone. You may want to add the "@" to the end to make sure it only acts on e-mail addresses.
All,
Here is what I am searching for using sed.
1 00640000106798
I want to replace that with the following.
8 0064B0000106798
I can do this easy enough from the command line using sed but I need to put the search string in a file and then execute the sed command within a... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file that I need to be able to find a pattern match on a line, search that line for a text pattern, and replace that text.
An example of 4 lines in my file is:
1. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData ReplaceMe moreData
2. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData moreData... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
My requisite is to search for the string "0108"(which is the year and has come in the wrong year format) in a particular column say 4th column in a tab delimited file and then replace it with 2008(the correct year format) in the same position where 0108 was found in the same file..The... (27 Replies)
Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
I'd like to be able to rename "sites/WHATEVER/files" to "sites/SOMETHINGELSE/files" within the sql dump.
This is quite easy with sed:
sed -e... (1 Reply)
Need help with either sed or awk to acheive the following
file1
-----
In the amazon forest
The bats eat all the time...
mon tue wed they would eat berries
In the tropical forest
The bats eat all the time...
on wed bats eat nuts
In the rain forest
The bats eat all the time...
on... (2 Replies)
I have a file
DS1
DDS
DS
I want to replace only "DS" to "DSmail.blah.com" in a lot of files. I tried
sed 's/DS/DSmail.blah.com' but it changes all the lines .
thanks in advance (2 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve... consider a file contains below contents. the file size is large about 60mb
cat dump.sql
INSERT INTO `table1` (`id`, `action`, `date`, `descrip`, `lastModified`) VALUES (1,'Change','2011-05-05 00:00:00','Account Updated','2012-02-10... (10 Replies)
how to search and replace string in column in file with command sed or other
search "INC0000003.in" and replace column 4 = "W"
$ cat file.txt
INC0000001.in|20150120|Y|N|N
INC0000002.in|20150120|Y|N|N
INC0000003.in|20150120|Y|N|N
INC0000004.in|20150120|Y|N|Noutput... (4 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a requirement in ksh where i have a set of files in a directory. I need to search each and every file if a particular string is present in the file, delete that line and replace that line with another string expression in the same file.
I am very new to unix. Kindly help... (10 Replies)