The quotes are there in instruct the shell (with regards, for example, to the expansion of shell variables in the case of using single quotes - where the shell would not expand them). In this case, it generally doesn't matter whether you put the closing quote before or after the g.
But it is important that you use the correct ones. e.g.
Logically, someone might ask "why put the closing quote there?", as it could look odd, but it's not so important with regard to your example.
Hello,
I'm trying to translate a fixed length (the first 6 positions) that begins with a 0 to overwrite the field with an *.
Any suggestion?
File 1
-------
013344 01:20
222343 19:30
233333 20:30
File 2 (result)
-----------------
****** 01:20
222343 19:30
233333 20:30 (5 Replies)
how can I find cpu usage memory usage swap usage and
I want to know CPU usage above X% and contiue Y times and memory usage above X % and contiue Y times
my final destination is monitor process
logical volume usage above X % and number of Logical voluage above
can I not to... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I need your help.
For example I have string in file.txt:
-x -a /tmp/dbarchive_NSS_20081204 -f 900 -l 1 2008/12/04 2008/12/04
So, I need to replace symbols from (for e.g.) position 26 till 33 with symbols which I have in file replace.txt
And I have no idea how to do it.
If... (1 Reply)
I want to remove text from nth position to nth position couple of times in same line
my line is
"hello is there anyone can help me with this question"
I need like this
ello is there anyone can help me with question
'h' is removed and 'this' removed from the line. I want to do this... (5 Replies)
I'm drawing a blank on how to use sed to replace selectively based on position in the string (vs nth occurence):
hello.|there.|how.|are.|you.|
I want the period removed in the 3rd item (as defined by the pipe delimiter) if a period is present. So the result in this case would be:
... (2 Replies)
I'm coding using BASH and have a requirement to replace apostrophes with backslash apostrophes. For example below:
I am here 'in my room' ok
Would be changed to:
I am here /'in my room/' ok
The original text is coming from a field in a MySql database and is being used by another process that... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a document with usual English text and some of the words have apostrophes (e.g. don't, can't, etc.)
I would like all these apostrophes to be doubled (e.g. don''t, can''t, etc.), but the problem is, that some of such words have double apostrophe and
by using sed -i "s/'/''/g"... (2 Replies)
Currently the table looks like this
student-id,last,first,hwk1,hwk2,hwk3,exam1,hwk4,hwk5,exam2
pts-avail,,,100,150,100,200,100,150,300
991-78-7872,Thompson,Ken,95,143,79,185,95,135,259
123-45-6789,Richie,Dennis,99,123,89,189,97,139,279
234-56-7891,Aho,Al,78,146,75,176,88,128,285... (3 Replies)
i have a requirement like this
if the line contains from position 294 to 299 is equal to "prabhu" ,then print entire line .
i want to use awk
awk '{if(substr(294-299) == 'prabhu') print "line" }' filename (1 Reply)
Thanks to help from Don Cragun in post 302924174, I'm off and getting into trouble on my own (finally) with sed.
Here is my goal - insert \\r\n at the 60th character on each line and then every 76th character thereafter:
Input:... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gusbrown
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)