Yes that is correct, #3 uses exact strings, so it correctly identifies the right field, and the sub() in itself isn't the problem either, since iteration occurs over the fields and not over the key value pairs (therefore it can substititute multiple occurrences on one line), but the problem is in the replacement part, it was attempting to use sub() on the record instead of a direct assignment to the field, to avoid losing the file separators.
This adaptation should fix that:
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Sir,
I want to check for the repation of a user address in a file i used || as my delimiter and want to check repetaip0n of the address that is mailid and then i have to use IMAP and all.
How can i do this...
I am in linux ...and my file is linux file.
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Hello,
Can someone kindy help me solve this problem..I am using SunOS shell script
I got a file A with following content:
This is my correct document. I wrote 111
This is my incorrect word , 222
This is my wrong statement 333
This is my correct document 444
This is my correct document 555... (9 Replies)
lets see if i can explain this in a good way.
im trying to replace some words in a file but i need to know what the words are that is beeing replaced. not sure if sed can do this.
file.name.something.1DATA01.something.whatever
sed "s/./.DATA?????/g"
need to know what the first . is... (2 Replies)
Hi all
I have a file with below content (content is variable whenever new product is launched). I need form a grep command like this
egrep "Unknown product|Invalid symboland so on"
How to do it using a script?
Unknown product
Invalid symbol
No ILX exch found
exceeds maximum size
AFX... (4 Replies)
I want to replace a certain pattern with the variable already defined.
e.g.
set path_verilog = /home/priya/bin/verilogfile
my file contents are :
verilog new
verilog is defined here verilog_path_comes
I am using the below command
sed 's/verilog_path_comes/'$path_verilog'/g' <filename>... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have 2 files:
species-names.txt
Abaca-bunchy-top-virus ((((Abaca-bunchy-top-virus((Babuvirus((Unassigned((Nanoviridae((Unassigned))))
Abutilon-mosaic-virus ((((Abutilon-mosaic-virus((Begomovirus((Unassigned((Geminiviridae((Unassigned))))... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I would like to change my setting in a file to the setting that user input.
For example, by default it is
ONBOOT=ON
When user key in "YES", it would be
ONBOOT=YES
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This code only adds in the entire user input, but didn't replace it.
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I have the file like this.
cat 123.txt
<p> <table border='1' width='90%' align='center' summary='Script output'> <tr><td>text </td> </tr> </table> </p>
I want to replace some tags and want the output like below. I tried with awk & sed commands. But no luck. Could someone help me on this?
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Hi All,
I need one help to replace particular words in file based on if finds another words in that file .
i.e.
my self is peter@king.
i am staying at north sydney.
we all are peter@king.
How to replace peter to sham if it finds @king in any line of that file.
Please help me... (8 Replies)