As I said before, using any of the following commands:
will result in abc.txt being a file of size 0, containing absolutely no characters. So, the code that you say is working on your Linux systems cannot possibly do what you say it is doing. The following should come close to what you said you want on a Linux distribution and on an AIX system:
If abc.txt contains the following before you run the above script:
the output from the above script will be:
and, as indicated by the output, the contents of abc.txt after running the script will be:
In addition to working with bash, this should also work with a 1988 or a 1993 version of the Korn shell (ksh) or any other shell that performs basic POSIX shell required parameter expansions.
Hi All,
I have a file that I need to be able to find a pattern match on a line, search that line for a text pattern, and replace that text.
An example of 4 lines in my file is:
1. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData ReplaceMe moreData
2. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData moreData... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
My requisite is to search for the string "0108"(which is the year and has come in the wrong year format) in a particular column say 4th column in a tab delimited file and then replace it with 2008(the correct year format) in the same position where 0108 was found in the same file..The... (27 Replies)
Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
I'd like to be able to rename "sites/WHATEVER/files" to "sites/SOMETHINGELSE/files" within the sql dump.
This is quite easy with sed:
sed -e... (1 Reply)
I need to search the file using strings "Request Type" , " Request Method" , "Response Type" and by using result set find the xml tags and convert into a single line?. below are the scenarios.
Cat test
Nov 10, 2012 5:17:53 AM
INFO: Request Type
Line 1.... (5 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a requirement in ksh where i have a set of files in a directory. I need to search each and every file if a particular string is present in the file, delete that line and replace that line with another string expression in the same file.
I am very new to unix. Kindly help... (10 Replies)
I am trying to write shell script to find and replace using Sed. but i am unable to complete the setting. need help in doing that.
Requirement:
FROM
"${O_INSTANCE}/diag/logs/${C_TYPE}/${C_NAME}/httpd.pid"
TO
"/var/opt/<SID>_<HOSTNAME>/Apache/httpd.pid" (10 Replies)
My variable contains the following string
I wish to replace \n with "space" so the expected output is:
I understand that the /n is not a new linein this case.
I'm on AIX using ksh shell. Below is all that I tried.
echo $str | sed -e "s#\n# #g";
echo $str | sed -e "s#\n#' '#g";... (5 Replies)
I have the below string which i need to compare with a file and replace this string in the file which matches closely. Can anyone help me on this.
string(Scenario 1)- user::r--,user::ourfrd:r--
String(Scenario 2)- user::r--
File
****
# file: /local/Desktop/myfile
# owner: me
# group:... (6 Replies)