Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem.
I have a text file that contains lines like this:
78 ANGELO -809.05
79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06
I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's
78 ANGELO xxxxxxx
79... (4 Replies)
I need to search and replace a particular string in a file. Only the exact match of the string should be replaced.
eg: File contents : abc abcd abcdef
--> Replace only 'abc' with 'xyz', but it should not replace abcd with xyzd.
So the o/p should be: xyz abcd abcdef.
How can this be done? I... (5 Replies)
Hi,
What should be the syntax to match and replace an exact string using sed? And not replacing any string that contain the value?
Eg.
testtest
etstetst
testetst
testtttt
etsttest
testtesttest
testtest
I only want to replace the line with exact string "testtest" with "123456"
... (2 Replies)
Hey everybody. I've got a simple problem but am unsure how to resolve it. I am using a script to edit multiple files at once. Inside the script I am using an sed command to make the changes. My problem is that I can only get it to work for stings that contain a word or words. How can I modify it to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to use the regex in the replacement string in SED command.
something like
sed -e ' s/\(^\{5\}\).\{150\}\(.*\)$/\10\{30\}1\{30\}A\{60\}B\{30\}\2/' abc
which means for all the lines in file abc that starts with 5 characters, I need to replace character 6-151... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have two files: file1 and file2
file1 has the following info:
---
host: "localhost"
port: 3000
reporter_type: "zookeeper"
zk_hosts:
- "localhost:2181"
file2 contains an IP address (1.1.1.1)
What I want to do is replace localhost with 1.1.1.1, so that the... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to know how, using sed, be able to insert contents of file2 in file1 after say the second occurrence of a given string? e.g.
> cat file1
banana
apple
orange
apple
banana
pear
tangerine
apple
> cat file2
I don't like apples
What would be the sed command to insert... (5 Replies)
Dear Unix Forum Group Members,
Please do let me know how I can replace the double pipe with single pipe recursively on single record.
Sample Input Data:
DN set|Call prefix||| Called number address nature
0||| *789|||||||ALL number types
0||| 00||||||||ALL number types
10||... (5 Replies)
Hello,
Just surfed on the web for probable answers but could not get them working.
I wish to replace the string containing spaces by another phrase but below answers did not work.
My string is:
PAIN & GAIN
I wish to convert it to:
P&G
I just need it working with sed with function -i
... (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)