is it possible to escape the \ character in sed?
right now I'm trying to replace all occurances of \ with \\
sed \"s|test|test_replacement|g\" file1 > output; #this works fine
sed \"s|\\|\\\|g\" file1 > output; #this generates the following error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 17:... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
How do i write in sed for the 6th and 7th field of etc/passwd file as it involves "/" character?
Does mine below is correct? It's incomplete script as i need help with syntax as i always getting may errors :(
Example of etc/passwd file:
blah:x:1055:600:blah... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a script which uses sed to replace one string with another. The problem is, the string to be matched, and its replacement are coming in as two command line arguments $1 and $2
$1 and $2 can be absolutely anything, but both should be treated purely as strings. My sed command... (7 Replies)
Hello experts
I am trying to write a shell script which will add ' ' to a unix variable and then pass it to oracle for inserting to a table.
I am running the script as root and I have to do a su -c .
The problem is the character ' is not recognised inside sed even after adding escape... (1 Reply)
Hello Everyone,
I need to read an encrypted password from the user and update that value in an xml file. I am trying to use "sed" for searching the appropriate tag and replacing this new value that get from the user. Since the encrypted password can contain special characters(like /,\,&,etc),... (4 Replies)
Need help in escaping special characters in sed command.
Here is the the string which i am trying to find a replace with
From :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID={//MESSAGE_ID}
To :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID= X_EDELIVERY_MESSAGE_ID & BATCH_ID= X_EDELIVERY_BATCH_ID
Here is the sed command i am... (2 Replies)
i have string as below
str=".<date>"
in which i need to replace < with /< , when i tried with sed , got the output.
--> echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'
.\<date>
when i tried to assign it to a variable , i am not getting the same
--> a=`echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'` ; echo $a... (4 Replies)
Friends,
In the file i am having more then 100 lines like,
File1 had the values like this:
#Example East.server_01=EAST.SERVER_01
East.server_01=EAST.SERVER_01
West.server_01=WEST.SERVER_01
File2 had the values like this:
#Example EAST.SERVER_01=http://yahoo.com... (3 Replies)
Greetings!
I've run into this before; and am having a spot of trouble trying to figure out the way that Perl would prefer the following example syntax to be formed:#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
`sed -i 's/Hi Mom!\|Hi Dad!/Bye Everyone!/I' ./test.txt`;Perl... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
rpl
RPL(1) BSD General Commands Manual RPL(1)NAME
rpl -- replace strings in files
SYNOPSIS
rpl [-LhiwbqvsRepfdt] [-xSUFFIX] <old_string> <new_string> <target_file ...>
DESCRIPTION
Basic usage is to specify two strings and one or more filenames or directories on the command line. The first string is the string to
replace, and the second string is the replacement string.
-h, --help
A short help text.
-L, --license
Show the license and exit.
-xSUFFIX
Search only files ending with SUFFIX, e.g. ``.txt''. May be specified multiple times.
-i, --ignore-case
Ignore the case of old_string.
-w, --whole-words
Make old_string match only on word boundaries.
-b, --backup
Move the original files to filename~ before replacing them.
-q, --quiet
Quiet mode.
-v, --verbose
Verbose mode.
-s, --dry-run
Simulation mode, no files are changed.
-R, --recursive
Recurse into subdirectories.
-e, --escape
Expand escape sequences in old_string and new_string. Examples of escape sequences are '
' (new-line), ' ' (tab), 'x42' (hexadec-
imal number 42), '