1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Well, I'm losing my regex ability in sed! Please help. I need to search for this text in multiple html files in a directory: </body> and add the following lines in front of the text above: <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> ... (11 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I have 2 programs running by the following names: a_testloop.sh testloop.sh I read these programs names from a file and store each of them into a variable called $program. On the completion of the above programs i should send an email. When i use grep with ps to see if any of... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have looked all over for this. I am attempting to get a the substring of a string using sed since it seemed the best solution for this. For example my string is: "zzz foo to you and bar123 or foo" I would like to extract the text between "and" and "or" (it could be anything, but... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a file with the following contents: I need to create a script or search command that will search for this string 'ENDC' in the file. This string is unique and only occurs in one record. Once it finds the string, I would like it to return positions 101-109 ( this is the date of... (0 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, got a problem here with sed on the command line. If i have a string as below: online xx:wer:xcv: sdf:/asdf/http:https-asdfd How can i match the pattern "http:" and replace the start of the string to the pattern with null? I tried the following but it doesn't work: ... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have several files that I need to modify using sed. I know how to do that, but now a new requirement has come up. Now, I need to make changes to all lines that don't start with certain strings. For example, I need to change all lines except for lines that start with "a", "hello there",... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a table like this I want to know how many times the string in 2nd column appears in the first column as substring. For example the first string of 2nd column "cgt" occurs 3 times in the 1st column and "acg" one time. So my desired output is THank you very much in advance:) (14 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following data in a text file. "A",1,"MyTextfile.CSV","200","This is ,line one" "B","EFG",23,"MyTextfile1.csv","5621",562,"This is ,line two" I want to extract the fileNames MyTextfile.CSV and MyTextfile1.csv. The problem is not all the lines are delimited with "," There are... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have 2 files, the first one containing a list of ids and the second one is a master file. I want to search each id from the first file from the 5th col in the second file. The 5th column in master file has values separated by ';', if not a single value is present. Each id must occur... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Need a little bit of help. Basically I need to replace lines in a file which were calculated wrong as it would 12 hours to regenerate the data. I need to calculate values based on other files which I've managed to figure out with grep/cut but now am stuck on how to shove these new... (21 Replies)