Thank you RudiC.
The ABC pattern can be any where in the file. Please find he corrected data:
I have tried using the awk, it replaces the pattern, but also i need other lines from the file which is not getting displayed.
I have tried using below. Could you please let me know what is next and 1 in the command are. I have also tried using sed which is not working due to syntax error. i have tried correcting it but having the same issue.
awk '/ABC/ {print substr ($0, 1, 119);}' file
I build several files by using the cut command to grab select fields(columns) from a really bid csv file. Each file is one column of data. I then put them together using paste command. Here is the code built in tcsh:
cut -d , -f 1 some.csv > 1.csv
cut -d , -f 10 some.csv > 10.csv
paste 1.csv... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I am new to the world of shell script programming.
I have a file named Fnd1.txt which has the contents as below.
I need to replace the \t with the tab space. Can any one help me
to write a perl scipt for this.
USA45V1\tG\t341029
USAV1T1\tG\t450545
USAREJ1\tG\t572645... (5 Replies)
Is there a way to do a find and replace in a .gz file in a single script ?
I can always unzip, find and replace and then zip it again but would hate to do this everytime.
Thanks !
Vivek (1 Reply)
I have a file that is HTML encoded. Each line has something like this on each line..
<href=http://link.com/username.aspx>username </a> more info.. <a href=http://link.com/info1.aspx>info1</a> more code... <a href=http://link.com/info2.aspx>info2</a>
I have one goal really.. to clean up the... (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I am new to this forum and new to sed/awk programming too !!
I need to find particular string in file1(text file) and replace it with a value from another text file(file2) the file2 has only one line and the value to be replaced with is in the second column.
file 1:
(assert (=... (21 Replies)
Hi,
This is probably quite simple for an expert, but I keep getting confused about the best approach, grep, awk, sed.
What I have is a range of files numbered 1 to 100. They go
file1.txt
file2.txt
and so on
In each file I need to find and replace a couple of items and rename add a... (5 Replies)
Legends,
I have a file /tmp/list.txt
I want to find "/bin/" and replace it with "/log/"
I tried the follwoing but no luck
Sandy: /tmp> perl -pi -e 's/\/bin\/\/log\/' /tmp/list.txt >> /tmp/try
Substitution pattern not terminated at -e line 1.
AND,
Sandy: /tmp> perl -pi -e... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am want find and replace in following content in the file.
i want to repalce a word
TABLESPACE XCRM_<ANY_CHAR>
to TABLESPACE XCRM
Sample File to Replace :
LOB(COMPLEX_VALUE) STORE AS
(
TABLESPACE XCRM_MED_D_NEW
STORAGE(INITIAL 64K BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
ENABLE... (3 Replies)
Hi I am having a file which has like this content shown below
Aaa,bb,cc,dd
Xxx,yy,d,12
Dodd,12-Jun,t
I need to replace last line like this
Aaa,bb,cc,dd
Xxx,yy,d,12
Dodd,10-August,t (13 Replies)
Hello Forum.
I have a file called abc.sed with the following commands;
s/1/one/g
s/2/two/g
...
I also have a second file called abc.dat and would like to substitute all occurrences of "1 with one", "2 with two", etc and create a new file called abc_new.dat
sed -f abc.sed abc.dat >... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: pchang
10 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [-v "string"] [pattern template] ...
pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so that
FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and some
of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2 Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3 Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4 Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)