1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Alright, I think I know what I am doing with sed(which probably means I don't). But I cant figure out how to replace just the first occurance of a string. I have tried sed, ed, and grep but can't seem to figure it out. If you have any suggestions I am open to anything! (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I want to replace 2nd instance of "foo" in a file use sed. Any suggestions? (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have file with following content ........................... ..........TEST.......... ..........TEST.......... ..................... .....TEST.......... ..................... ..................... .....TEST.......... I want to replace nth "TEST" with "OK" using... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file containing about 5 million rows, in the file there are some records which has extra delimiter at random position. (we dont know the positions), now we have to Count the delimeter from each row and if the count of delimeter is not matching then I want to delete those rows from the... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a record like the one given below. 010000306551~IN ~N~ |WINDWARD PK|Alpharetta| If ~ is present more than instance in a line,then I need to delete those instances. Any ideas? I am working in Solaris (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

test.txt is the dynamic file but some of combination are fix like below are the lines ;wonder_off = ;wonder_off = disabled wonder_off = wonder_off = disabled the test.txt can content them in any order #cat test.xt ;wonder_off = ;wonder_off = disabled wonder_off = wonder_off =... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Suppose you have a line like this: cn=user.blr.ou=blr.india.o=company The line should be converted like this: cn=user.blr,ou=blr.india,o=comapny Was wondering how to do that using shell script. Please use tags where appropriate, thank you (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I have a file1.txt as below 29123973Ç2012-0529Ç35310124Ç000000000004762Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF 29123974Ç20120529Ç35310125Ç0000000000046770Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF 29123975Ç20120529Ç35310126Ç0000000000046804Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF 29123976Ç20120529Ç35310127Ç0000000000044820Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF i have a file2.txt... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have file like below abc 12 34 45 code abcdef 451 1 4 code ghtyggg 4 56 3 code I need to change this to abc|12|34|45|code| abcdef|451|1|4|code| ghtyggg|4|56|3|code| I tried replace space with | in sed ... but in the middle some row has... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I've a pipe delimited data in a file of size 3GB. if the text data conatins pipe delimiter that will be enclose with double quotes. I have to replace delimiter which exists between double quotes with #%@#%@#%@ using awk or sed. can some one provide a better and efficient solution to me. The below... (4 Replies)