Note that unless you quote the entire substitute command, you can't include blanks in the substitution string because the shell will see sequences of blanks in the substitute command as field separators; not as data included in the replacement string.
I'd like to respectfully disagree: you can do that, but it takes a little effort with the quoting to make sure the string doesn't undergo the shells field splitting:
Of course all the usual problems with shell strings used as sed program(part)s persist: metacharacters, which might lead to the regexp meaning something very different from the expected, etc..
how much do you know on using the sed commands within a diff command? I'm currently using one long command when robot runs that... when the diff command is ran that the < and > signs at the beginning of each line are changed to the environment name that they came from... making it easier to... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
Seen some of wonderful posts. Please have look at my problem.
I have a text file ketkee.txt , which look like below.
GATES := apple mango banana
XMLCHECK := red blue green pink
My requiement is to find the line that has XMLCHECK in it. and append two variables followed by a space... (2 Replies)
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I wanted to pass a variable to the sed command which tells which line to be deleted.
a=2;
echo $a;
sed '$ad' c.out
it is throwing an error.
sed: 0602-403 "$a"d is not a recognized function.
I even tried "$a" and \$a.. but it is of no use.
Can you please correct me... (6 Replies)
I know this script is crummy, but I was just messing around.. how do I get sed's insert command to allow variable expansion to show the filename?
#!/bin/bash
filename=`echo $0`
/usr/bin/sed '/#include/ {
i\
the filename is `$filename`
}' $1
exit 0 (8 Replies)
I have file File1.txt in which i have to replace a text using sed command
File1.txt contents
EURAMOUNTTOBEREPLACED
I have a AIX shell script for replacing the text AMOUNTTOBEREPLACED
Contents of the shell script
sum=27
sed 's/AMOUNTTOBEREPLACED/"$sum"/g' File1.txt >> temp
mv temp... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I want to insert some text in the begning of each line. But issue is the text that i want to insert is stored into one variable. so my command look like
constr="`date | awk '{print $3"-"$2"-"$6}'`",MXGBTST1" "
sed 's/^/\$constr/g' alert_temp.csv
but sed command instead of taking... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Can I use a variable (using this variable as a counter) in sed cmd?
something like below
sed -n '${COUNT}p'
But it's not working. Pls help.
Thanks.
Regards,
Amee
export COUNT=1
export COUNTER=`cat ${BINPATH}/$ALLOC_FILE.clean_1 | wc -l | tr -d " "`
while ... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
How can i use a variable in a sed command ? I cant seem to get it to work as at present its just printing $i at the start of every line rather than the variable $1.
sed -e "s/^/\$i,|/"
Any help would be appreciated. (3 Replies)
Hie everyone
i have a complex sed command line which work fine for a static value given
example
sed -n '/SQL ID\:\ 1111111111111/!b;:a;/\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*/!{$!{N;ba}};{/*/p}' ./MyInputFile.txt
what i want is something like that
sed -n '/SQL ID\:\... (2 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)