I'm trying to do a global search and replace in vi. I am trying to replace a string, call it "BOB" with a carriage return and can't seem to find a reference to it.
Command syntax s%/BOB/???/g
What would I substitute the "???" with? (7 Replies)
Is there any way we can achieve search & replace with awk?
I could achieve the same with sed in following way -
sed 's/A/B/g' file1 > file2
But the same regex if I try with using awk following way,
awk 's/A/B/g' file1 > file2
it gives me Syntax error. I strongly believe I am... (1 Reply)
Can I use search & replace in any variable?
Suppose I have one variable named var1 which holds value "abcabc" I need to search 'a' in var1 and want to replace with 'x' like 'xbcxbc'. Is it possible? Can you provide me an example?
Malay (3 Replies)
Hey, I want to have a C program which, for an existing file supplied by the command line argument (E.g. File1.txt) replaces all the occurrences of the words:
"We” or “we” by “I”
“a” by “the”
“A” by “The”.
Then print the replaced file. All other characters of the file are to be left... (1 Reply)
I have a file that has some accent characters in it when viewed in some text editors, but when viewed in vi they come in as ~R and ~U. I need to make a script to remove these characters from the file, but have been unsuccessful. I am not sure how sed or awk, or something similar is viewing them,... (8 Replies)
Hi ,
I ahve a text file which has several instances of the text such as
run_time: 09:30
I need to add double quotes before and after the time value
i.e: run_time: "09:30"
Any suggestions on how to go about the same (4 Replies)
Hi I'm trying to replace a string in the files ending with *.txt
Unable to get the sed to do the job. any help would be appreciated :)
I'm on SunOS
#!/bin/bash
startdirectory={$HOME}/pp_test
searchterm="change"
replaceterm="CHANGE"
echo $searchterm
echo $replaceterm
for file in... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have one question that hopefully isn't too complicated for the more advanced users here. In one of the Solaris KSH scripts I'm working on, is it possible to script the following:
- If there "is" an empty blank line "at the end" of /tmp/text.txt, then remove only that one empty... (3 Replies)
Hi,
My problem is that I have to search a changing pattern and replace it with the wild card char "*"
i/p: 99_*_YYYYMMDD_SRC.txt.tar.gz
o/p: 99_*_*_SRC.txt.tar.gz
The problem is that YYYYMMDD pattern is not static. It could be YYYYMMDDHHMI or could be YYYYMMDDHHMISS.
Can... (10 Replies)
Hi all
Please can you help me with a script to check several files for the following string:
encoding=""and replace it with:
encoding="UTF-8"I did the following, :
#!/bin/sh
string1="encoding="""
string2="encoding="UTF-8"
sed 's/'"$string1"'/'"$string2"'/g'but does not work.
Please can... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: fretagi
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comm
comm(1) User Commands comm(1)NAME
comm - select or reject lines common to two files
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which must be ordered in the current collating sequence, and produces three text columns as output:
lines only in file1; lines only in file2; and lines in both files.
If the input files were ordered according to the collating sequence of the current locale, the lines written will be in the collating
sequence of the original lines. If not, the results are unspecified.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-1 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file1.
-2 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file2.
-3 Suppresses the output column of lines duplicated in file1 and file2.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file1 A path name of the first file to be compared. If file1 is -, the standard input is used.
file2 A path name of the second file to be compared. If file2 is -, the standard input is used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of comm when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Printing a list of utilities specified by files
If file1, file2, and file3 each contain a sorted list of utilities, the command
example% comm -23 file1 file2 | comm -23 - file3
prints a list of utilities in file1 not specified by either of the other files. The entry:
example% comm -12 file1 file2 | comm -12 - file3
prints a list of utilities specified by all three files. And the entry:
example% comm -12 file2 file3 | comm -23 -file1
prints a list of utilities specified by both file2 and file3, but not specified in file1.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of comm: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All input files were successfully output as specified.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 3 Mar 2004 comm(1)