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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Help with sed, please Post 302998490 by vgersh99 on Friday 2nd of June 2017 01:17:50 PM
Old 06-02-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
As a generic solution I would not search the key in the entire line, because the key (especially a short key) can appear in a value.
fair enough:
Code:
echo 'FilePointName = "File1Name";' | sed '/^FilePointName/s/\([^"]*\)"\(.*\)/\1"My\2/'

 

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GRIB_GET(1)							   User Commands						       GRIB_GET(1)

NAME
grib_get - Get values of some keys from a grib file. DESCRIPTION
Get values of some keys from a grib file. It is similar to grib_ls, but fails returning an error code when an error occurs (e.g. key not found). USAGE
grib_get [options] grib_file grib_file ... OPTIONS
-f Force. Force the execution not to fail on error. -p key[:{s/d/l}],key[:{s/d/l}],... Declaration of keys to print. For each key a string (key:s) or a double (key:d) or a long (key:l) type can be requested. Default type is string. -P key[:{s/d/l}],key[:{s/d/l}],... As -p adding the declared keys to the default list. -w key[:{s/d/l}]{=/!=}value,key[:{s/d/l}]{=/!=}value,... Where clause. Grib messages are processed only if they match all the key/value constraints. A valid constraint is of type key=value or key!=value. For each key a string (key:s) or a double (key:d) or a long (key:l) type can be specified. Default type is string. -V Version. -W width Minimum width of each column in output. Default is 10. -M Multi-grib support off. Turn off support for multiple fields in single grib message -G GRIBEX compatibility mode. -7 Does not fail when the message has wrong length AUTHOR
This manpage has been autogenerated by Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>from the command line help of grib_get. grib_get April 2009 GRIB_GET(1)
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