Such things have been asked several times ago.
One of the frequently given answers was
The trick is to set the Record Separator to ".
For clarification how the "lines" are seen do this
The rest is easy: on every second line replace all ; by |
Hi There!
I have the following string
which i need to convert to
i.e. between each occurence of the delimiter ('|' in this case), i need to delete all characters from the '|' to the ':' so that |10,9:12/xxx| becomes |12/xxx|
How can i do this using sed?
Thanks in advance! (13 Replies)
Hi,
I need to mass delete the following string(s) from my files
weight=100,
However the '100' is variable e.g
Current:
----------------
moretext=bar, weight=100, moreinfo=blah
extrastuff=hi, weight=9999, extrainfo=foo
Desired:
------------------
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I need to extract certain pieces from a string, wher delimiters may vary. For example
A0 B0 C0 12345677 X0 Y0 Z0
A1-B1 C1 12345678 X1 Y0 Z0
A1/B2 C77 12345679 X2 Y0 Z0
I need to get
C0 12345677 X0
C1 12345678 X1
C77 12345679 X2
I tried sed, see example below:
echo 'A0 B0... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete all text between "|" delimiters. The line in text file typically looks like this:
1014182| 13728 -rw-r--r-- 1 imac1 staff 7026127 2 okt 2010 |/Users/imac1/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Various Artists/We Are the World_ U.S.A. for Africa/01 We Are the World.mp3... (2 Replies)
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aaaa bbbb cccc dddd eeee ffffff
I would need to get the cccc however bbbb could be there or not.
So whether bbbb is in the line or not I need cccc.
I was looking at either awk or sed....and trying to start at c and end until the next space.
Also... (11 Replies)
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Below are the valid formats :
1) AAA (0) 111-111-111, AAA, BB
2) AAA (0) 111-111-1111;X, AAA, BB
original flat file example :
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Hi All,
i have file name like below
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ABC_065224_123456_MAIN_20130413_163005.txt
ABC_065224_123456_123456_MAIN_130413_163005.txt
ABC_065224_123456_123456_434567_MAIN_130413_163005.txt
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Ex.,
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