How about cut? Not the sharpest hammer in the box, but useful:-
The -f value has a trailing - so it will grab anything beyond the 3rd /, including other /s if they are there. This might not be what you want, but you can drop it if you only want the 4th field.
Using the script: (Called replaceit)
#!/bin/ksh
String=$1
Replace=$2
sed -e "s/${orig}/${new}/g" oldfile.txt > newfile.txt
In oldfile.txt, I'm looking for: getenv("Work")
And change it To: /u/web
I execute the script:
replaceit "getenv(\""Work\"")" /u/web
I'm getting sed... (3 Replies)
how to escape / (forward slash) in a string.
I have following scnerio:
sed s/${var1}{$var2}
var1 and var2 both contain slashes, but sed gives error if there is a slash in var1 or var2. sed is used here to replace var1 with var2.
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I need to know way of inserting backward slash before forward slash. My problem is that i need to supply directory path as an argument while invoking cshell script. This argument is further used in script (i.e. sed is used to insert this path in some file). So i need to place \ in front... (2 Replies)
What is the significance of the forward slash(/) while specifying a directory?
cp -av /dir/ /opt/
and
cp -av /dir /opt
Does effectively the same job it seems? (2 Replies)
i need to replace '/' forward slash with \/(backward slash follwed by a forward slash) using sed command when the forward slash occurs as a first character in a file..
Tried something like this but doesn't seem to work.
find $1 -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/^\//\\\//g'
Can someone... (19 Replies)
I want to replace every 2nd occurance of a string/character from a line.
ababacbsbddbsbbcbdbssb
i want to replace every s2nd b with @ like below
should be like
aba@acbs@ddbs@bc@dbss@ (3 Replies)
hi
hope somebody can help, there seems to be bit on the net about this, but still cant make it work the way i need.
i have a file live this
mm dd ff /dev/name1
mm dd ff /dev/name2
mm dd ff /dev/name3
mm dd ff /dev/name4
i need to update /dev/name1 etc to /newdev/new/name1 etc
so... (5 Replies)
./split2.sh: line 1: split/ssl/pop3s.txt: No such file or directory
sort: cannot read: split/ssl/pop3s.txt: No such file or directory
Hi there,
I am pulling data from the following source:
ssl/http
ssl/http
ssl/http-alt
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https
ssl/https... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: alvinoo
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
cut
CUT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CUT(1)NAME
cut -- cut out selected portions of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
cut -c list [file ...]
cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cut utility cuts out selected portions of each line (as specified by list) from each file and writes them to the standard output. If no
file arguments are specified, or a file argument is a single dash ('-'), cut reads from the standard input. The items specified by list can
be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1.
The list option argument is a comma or whitespace separated set of numbers and/or number ranges. Number ranges consist of a number, a dash
('-'), and a second number and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second, inclusive. Numbers or number ranges may be
preceded by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from 1 to the last number. Numbers or number ranges may be followed by a dash, which
selects all fields or columns from the last number to the end of the line. Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlapping, and in
any order. If a field or column is specified multiple times, it will appear only once in the output. It is not an error to select fields or
columns not present in the input line.
The options are as follows:
-b list
The list specifies byte positions.
-c list
The list specifies character positions.
-d delim
Use delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character.
-f list
The list specifies fields, separated in the input by the field delimiter character (see the -d option.) Output fields are separated
by a single occurrence of the field delimiter character.
-n Do not split multi-byte characters. Characters will only be output if at least one byte is selected, and, after a prefix of zero or
more unselected bytes, the rest of the bytes that form the character are selected.
-s Suppress lines with no field delimiter characters. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of cut as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The cut utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
Extract users' login names and shells from the system passwd(5) file as ``name:shell'' pairs:
cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd
Show the names and login times of the currently logged in users:
who | cut -c 1-16,26-38
SEE ALSO colrm(1), paste(1)STANDARDS
The cut utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
HISTORY
A cut command appeared in AT&T System III UNIX.
BSD December 21, 2006 BSD