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You haven't said what operating system (although we might guess that it is some Linux distribution from your choice of user name) or shell you're using... With a POSIX conforming shell (such as ksh [which is used in the examples below] or bash) and sed utility you could use something like:
Or, more efficiently, but requiring a little more typing, with awk:
If you want to use awk on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk.
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Hi guys,
say I have a few files in a directory (58 text files or somthing)
each one contains mulitple strings that I wish to replace with other strings
so in these 58 files I'm looking for say the following strings:
JAM (replace with BUTTER)
BREAD (replace with CRACKER)
SCOOP (replace... (19 Replies)
Hi,
I will use below command for grep single string ("osuser" is search string)
ex: find . -type f | xarg grep -il osuser
but i have one more string "v$session"
here i want to grep in which file these two strings are present.
any help is appreciated,
Thanks in advance.
Gagan (2 Replies)
Hello guys,
should be a very easy questn for you:
I need to delete strings in file1 based on the list of strings in file2.
like file2:
word1_word2_
word3_word5_
word3_word4_
word6_word7_
file1:
word1_word2_otherwords..,word3_word5_others... (7 Replies)
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Example as below :
filea.gz
fileb.gz
filec.gz
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<string name="string2">2.0</string>
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-----cat 1.txt-----
1234
5678
1256
1234
1247
-------------------
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-----ls -lrt-------
A1.txt
A2.txt
A3.txt
-------------------
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