You are using GNU sed syntax. -i means 'in place' the -i.Original is a suffix to add to a tmp file so you can get your old file back if there was an error. -r is also not standard.
You should read the man page for sed on your AIX FIRST before doing copy of code from here.
sorry about that, I actually modified the code above to suit the AIX sed and am using the below code now
what confuses me is why are the characters are positions 143,144 and 145 changing when i think the above AIX sed code only replaces characters at positions 137-139
using sed to replace a specific string on a specific line number using variables
this is where i am at
grep -v WARNING output | grep -v spawn | grep -v Passphrase | grep -v Authentication | grep -v '/sbin/tfadmin netguard -C'| grep -v 'NETWORK>' >> output.clean
grep -n Destination... (2 Replies)
I am trying to use sed to replace specific characters at a specific position in the file with a different value... can this be done?
Example:
File:
A0199999123
A0199999124
A0199999125
Need to replace 99999 in positions 3-7 with 88888.
Any help is appreciated. (5 Replies)
I'm trying to update a text file via sed/awk, after a lot of searching I still can't find a code snippet that I can get to work.
Brief overview:
I have user input a line to a variable, I then find a specific value in this line 10th field in this case. After asking for new input and doing some... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I have a fixed width file.
The way this file works is say for example there are 30 columns in it each with different sizes say 10,5,2, etc...
If data in a field is less than the field size the rest of it is loaded with spaces.
I would like an awk command to that would replace
I have... (8 Replies)
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Hi experts,
My file looks something like this.
abcXX4,7,234
abc,defg,45XX23,74,123
The number of commas left of the XX can vary. The question is how can I replace all the commas left of the 'XX' with an underscore?
abcXX4,7,234
abc_defg_45XX23,74,123
Thanks! (5 Replies)
Need command for position based replace:
I need a command to replace with 0 for characters in the positions 11 to 20 to all the lines starts with 6 in a file.
For example the file ABC.txt has:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz... (4 Replies)
I would like to remove all characters starting with "%" and ending with ")" in the 4th field - please help!!
1412007819.864 /device/services/heartbeatxx 204 0.547%!i(int=0) 0.434 0.112
1412007819.866 /device/services/heartbeatxx 204 0.547%!i(int=1) 0.423 0.123... (10 Replies)
Hi Team,
I have requirement to replace Language Specific Characters in File.
We have set of characters, it should be replaced to a different character in the file.
I have around 38 characters which should replaced to different destination character.
Please help.
Thanks
Bharat (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bharath561989
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
tr
TR(1) General Commands Manual TR(1)NAME
tr - translate characters
SYNOPSIS
tr [ -cds ] [ string1 [ string2 ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Tr copies the standard input to the standard output with substitution or deletion of selected characters (runes). Input characters found
in string1 are mapped into the corresponding characters of string2. When string2 is short it is padded to the length of string1 by dupli-
cating its last character. Any combination of the options -cds may be used:
-c Complement string1: replace it with a lexicographically ordered list of all other characters.
-d Delete from input all characters in string1.
-s Squeeze repeated output characters that occur in string2 to single characters.
In either string a noninitial sequence -x, where x is any character (possibly quoted), stands for a range of characters: a possibly empty
sequence of codes running from the successor of the previous code up through the code for x. The character followed by 1, 2 or 3 octal
digits stands for the character whose 16-bit value is given by those digits. The character sequence followed by 1, 2, 3, or 4 hexadecimal
digits stands for the character whose 16-bit value is given by those digits. A followed by any other character stands for that character.
EXAMPLES
Replace all upper-case ASCII letters by lower-case.
tr A-Z a-z <mixed >lower
Create a list of all the words in one per line in where a word is taken to be a maximal string of alphabetics. String2 is given as a
quoted newline.
tr -cs A-Za-z '
' <file1 >file2
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/tr.c
SEE ALSO sed(1)TR(1)