Help building a variable string from a keyword - character replacements!
Hello scripting geniusii! I come to kneel before the alter of your wisdom!
I am looking to take a keyword and replace characters within that keyword and add them to a string variable. I would like this to only go through however many characters the word has, which may vary in size.
Example word - dominos:
In the end state, I would like it to look like this:
I am doing this today manually, creating my "KEYWORD" variable, but I'm trying to tidy this all up and make my script pull the current working directory and use that as the keyword variable base, so that my script can be standardized over several different keywords I'm working with.
Hope this makes some sense, and Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts!
Hi guys,
with sed when I need to make a substitution inside a line containing a specific keyword, I usually use:
sed '/keyword/ s/cat/dog/g'
This will substitute "cat" with "dog" on those lines containing "keyword". Now I want to use this inside vi, for several reason that I cannot... (2 Replies)
How...
can I read input by a user character by cahracter. And assign each character from the string to a variable?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to code in ksh that will remove the first character in a string variable and replace that variable without the first character?
Example:
var1=ktest1 will become var1=test1
var2=rtest2 will become var2=test2
Need help please. (10 Replies)
Hallo!
Example.
#!/bin/bash
BACKUP_DIR=/home/userx/backups/evolution
echo $BACKUP_DIR
# delete the first character from the string
BACKUP_DIR=$(echo $BACKUP_DIR | cut -c 2-)
echo $BACKUP_DIR
It works. It does want I want, delete the first character from string in the... (11 Replies)
Hey Guys,
I have text such as this.
28003,ALCORN,2
28009,BENTON,2
28013,CALHOUN,2
28017,CHICKASAW,2
47017,CARROLL,2
05021,CLAY,0
The last digit after the final "," is a variable value. This is the base file. I have to do further execution on this file later and I need to update the... (7 Replies)
echo "hello123" | tr -dc '' | wc -c
using this command i can count the no of times a number from 0-9 occurs in the string "hello123"
but how do i save this result inside a variable?
if i do
x= echo "hello123" | tr -dc '' | wc -c
that does not work...plz suggest..thanks (3 Replies)
I see a millioin ways to do this with echo, but what I wan to do is assign a variable the "nth" character of an incoming parameter to a ksh script.
$1 will be "pia"
I need to assign the first character to stmttype. (10 Replies)
Hi Perl users,
I have another problem with text processing in Perl. I have a file below:
Linux Unix Linux Windows SUN
MACOS SUN SUN HP-AUX
I want the result below:
Unix Windows SUN
MACOS HP-AUX
so the duplicate string will be removed and also the keyword of the string on... (2 Replies)
Hi
I want to implement something like this:
if( keyword1 exists)
then
check if(keyword2 exists in the same line)
then replace keyword 2 with New_Keyword
else
Add New_Keyword at the end of line
end if
eg:
Check for Keyword JUNGLE and add/replace... (7 Replies)
Hello.
I have a string variable named L_TEMP to test a very simple filter.
L_TEMP="50AwL.|KWp9jk"
I want to insert a non printable character between K and W.
I have try this :
linux-g65k:~ # a='50AwL.|K'
linux-g65k:~ # b='Wp9jk'
linux-g65k:~ # L_TEMP="$a$'\x07'$b"
linux-g65k:~ # echo... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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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)