Hi, try:
You last attempt (sed 's!\=\*!\=Z!g' file) should have worked even though the backslash escapes of the = sign are unnecessary and so it could be reduced to:
which is the same as my suggestions
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the problem is while replacing the old string with new one with the help of SED i am unable to replace the special characters with new strings. how can i do that?
i dont want the user to be given the trouble to write '\' before every special characters like * , . , \ , $ , &.
sed... (4 Replies)
I have a script that is reading an existing report, pulling out the customer code, then tacking on the customer name from another file and replacing the existing customer code with the new field. This was written for me by someone else. I'm not real familiar with sed.
The data is getting into... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file with many lines with below format:
\abc\\1234
jkl\\567
def\\345
\pqr\\567
\xyz\\234
Here, i need to do 2 things.
1. replace \\ with \
2. remove starting \
so output to be as below: (11 Replies)
HI all,
How can i rename some files and replace the special character in the name with todays date
ex: Name#file1.txt
Name#file2.txt
to be renamed as
Name.20091119.file1.txt
Name.20091119.file2.txt (11 Replies)
Greetings,
I am doing something that I don't know if it is possible...
I have a file with a line looks like this:
<%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n>
and I am trying to replace this line with
<%s \n%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n>
in Shell script with sed command...
StringToReplace='%s \n%s / %s \n%s \n'... (2 Replies)
I need to do the following:
text in the format of: ADDRESS=abcd123:1111
- abcd123:1111 is different on every system.
replace with: ADDRESS=localhost:2222
sed 's/ADDRESS=<What do I use here?>/ADDRESS=localhost:2222/g'
Everything I've tried ends up with:
... (3 Replies)
How can I replace the follong text including to number 7000?
cat tmp0.txt
Winston (UK) Wong
I would the 7000 to replace Winston (UK) Wong.
I fail with method below:
sed ' s /Winston\(UK\)Wong/7000 tmp0.txt' (1 Reply)
Hi all
I got test.test.test and need
test.test\.test *
I need the backslash before the last dot in the line
I tried
echo test.test.test | sed 's/\./\\./g'
but it gives me
test\.test\.test
Thanks (7 Replies)