I'm writing a shell script and I need to replace the contents of a configuration file based on what is passed to the script...can I replace expressions in a file from a bash shell script? (2 Replies)
Hi All,
So I found a simple sed command to replace text in a file (http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/wordpress-unix-replace-text-multiple-files/1128/):
sed -e 's/OLDtext/NEWtext/' -i file(s)
Because I'm lazy and don't want to remember this each time I want to do this, I wrote the following... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
Can someone help me out with this:
I have a directory with files like the following,
GHost++ 2010-03-14 04-01 DotaCash RD us_ca LC #7 (44m19s).w3g
GHost++ 2010-03-14 04-06 DotaCash AP us_ca LC #8 (42m24s).w3g
GHost++ 2010-03-14 04-07 DotaCash AR us_ca LC #10 (08m23s).w3g ... (4 Replies)
Hi all!
Looking for some help parsing filenames in bash. I have a directory full of files named "livingroom-110111105637.avi". The format is always date and time (yymmddhhmmss). I'm looking to parse the filenames so they are a little more easily readable. Maybe rename them to... (4 Replies)
Hi all.
I am very new to linux scripting and i have a task i can only solve with a script.
I need to sort files base on the date string in their filenames and create a folder using the same date string then move the files to their respective folders.
Scenario:
Folder Path:... (1 Reply)
Hi all.
I am very new to linux scripting and i have a task i can only solve with a script.
I need to sort files base on the date string in their filenames and create a folder using the same date string then move the files to their respective folders.
Scenario:
Folder Path:... (1 Reply)
I have written a script which works fine, to remove patterns contained in EXCLUDE.DAT from input.txt
awk 'BEGIN {n=0;while (getline < "EXCLUDE.DAT" > 0){ex=$0;n++}} {for(var in ex){print var "-" ex $0 ;i++}}' input.txt
The last problem I need to solve is how to pass the file... (3 Replies)
Hello.
Source file are in : /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/some_file
Destination is : /d/e where sub-directories "f" and "g" may missing or not.
After copying I want /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/file1 in /d/e/f/g/file1
On source /a is top-level directory
On destination /d is top-level directory
I would like... (2 Replies)
Re: Query on using command "SED" for replacing text in bash shell
While using the command "sed" for find and replace, I wanted to know how one could find a constant and replace it with a variable inside the quotation syntax of sed?
I wanted to replace constant 3 with variable name... (3 Replies)
Hi
I want to replace time stamp in the following line
PROCNAME.Merge.exchMon.CODE.T_QSTART 08:45 read
assuming the new time stamp is 09:45 ; the line is getting replaced as below
:45 read
I'm trying to use the perl one liner in bash script
perl -pi... (4 Replies)