Hi All!
Thanks for the replies! I'm afraid I wasn't clear enough in my initial example. I realized that when I received my first reply, but I wasn't able to reply anymore.
The separator is NOT the last line in the file, I want to automatically insert a line into an existing changelog, that is part of a script, which starts below the separator...
I would like to use the separator, because sometimes the comments in the changelog span multiple lines, so I can't look for the last v000x and append a new line below it.
Like so:
---------- Post updated at 10:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:33 AM ----------
Never mind. RudiC's piece of code, even though it's completely incomprehensible, does the job!
Hi all,
I need to insert new text and change existing text in a file. For that I used the below line in the command line and got the expected output.
sed '$a\
hi...
' shell > shell1
But I face problem when using the same in script. It is throwing the error as,
sed: command garbled:... (4 Replies)
First of all, I know this can be more eassily done with perl or other scripting languages but, that's not the issue. I need this in sed. (or wander if it's possible )
I got a file (trace file to recreate the control file from oracle for the dba boys)
which contains
some lines
another line... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new in Shell scripting but i should write a script, which inserts the license header out of a txt-File into the files in our Projekt. For the Java classes it runs without Problems but for XML files not. At xml-files i have to put the license Header after the xml-Header (?xml... (1 Reply)
Greetings all,
I am trying to match a string, and after that insert a few lines above that match.
The string is "Version 1.0.0". I need to insert a few lines ONLY above the first match (there are many Version numbers in the file). The rest of the matches must be ignored. The lines I need to... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to insert a block of text 2 lines above a pattern match using sed
eg
#Start of file entry
{
}
#End of file entry
new bit of text has to be put in just above the } eg
#Start of file entry
{
New bit of text
}
#End of file entry (7 Replies)
I have following pattern in a file:
00:01:38 UTC
abcd
00:01:48 UTC
00:01:58 UTC
efgh
00:02:08 UTC
00:02:18 UTC
and I need to change something like the following
00:01:38 UTC
abcd
00:01:48 UTC
XXXX
00:01:58 UTC
efgh
00:02:08 UTC
XXXX (6 Replies)
Hello, I am trying to insert a section of text between lines in another text file.
The new lines to be inserted are:
abcd.efgh.zzzz=blah
abcd.efgh.xxxx=blah
Where N = 0 to 2
Original File:
abcd.efgh.wwxx=aaaaa
abcd.efgh.yyzz=bbbbb
abcd.efgh.wwxx=aaaaa
abcd.efgh.yyzz=bbbbb... (3 Replies)
Have a file which has the create statement like below
create table emp
( empno integer,
empname char(50))
primary index(empno);
i need to find a string starting with create and ends with semi-colon ;. if so insert the below statement before create statement
rename table emp to emp_rename;... (2 Replies)
Having a little trouble getting this to work just right.
I have xml files that i want to split some data.
I have 2 <name> tags within the file
I would like to take only the first tag and split the data.
tag example.
From this.
TAB<Name>smith, john</Name>
to
TAB<Name>smith,... (8 Replies)
hi all,
trying this using shell/bash with sed/awk/grep
I have two files, one containing one column, the other containing multiple columns (comma delimited).
file1.txt
abc12345
def12345
ghi54321
...
file2.txt
abc1,text1,texta
abc,text2,textb
def123,text3,textc
gh,text4,textd... (6 Replies)