Thanks for your questions and advice. My Unix is Solaris 10. It seems sed do not support EREs. Please see following output. As for date regex is concerned, this format was created by some other people and has been in production for years. I could not change it at this moment. So the best expression will still be like '01-MON-20XX' or '31-MON-20XX'. These dates are government fiscal quarter begin date and end date. It is in SQL statement. I want to use shell script to automate the change to new quarter begin date and end date for data process and report generation. You are absolutely right. $NEWDATA is variable which is queried from database and put with sed to replace old date. Here is output:
Now question is: based on Solaris 10, how can sed handle the extended regular expressions? Please give me some idea. Thanks.
Hi Everyone,
I am new to this forum and new to sed/awk programming too !!
I need to find particular string in file1(text file) and replace it with a value from another text file(file2) the file2 has only one line and the value to be replaced with is in the second column.
file 1:
(assert (=... (21 Replies)
Can someone tell me how I can do this?
e.g:
a=$(echo -e wert trewt ertert ertert ertert erttert
erterte
rterter
tertertert
ert)
How do i replace the STRING with $a?
I try this:
sed -i 's/STRING/'"$a"'/g' filename.ext
but this don' t work (2 Replies)
I have the following output and would like to only identify strings with "vw" at the end.
Here is the file contents:
SELECT n.contract_num, n.descr, s.prj_level2_cf_val, r.descr, r.project_id,
p.offering_id, o.n_cust_contract, u.name1, ' ', ' ', SUM (0),
TO_CHAR (t.start_dt, 'YYYY-MM-DD'),... (6 Replies)
QUESTION1:
How do you grep only an exact string. I am using Solaris10 and do not have any GNU products installed.
Contents of car.txt
CAR1_KEY0
CAR1_KEY1
CAR2_KEY0
CAR2_KEY1
CAR1_KEY10
CURRENT COMMAND LINE: WHERE VARIABLE CAR_NUMBER=1 AND KEY_NUMBER=1
grep... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a file in which contains location of various data files. I want to change locations using sed. Find and replace strings are in a separate file. Content of this file (/tmp/tt) -
/dd/pp/test/test/1/ /pp/aa/test/dg1/
/dd/pp/test/test/2/ /pp/aa/test/dg2/
/dd/pp/test/test/3/... (2 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve... consider a file contains below contents. the file size is large about 60mb
cat dump.sql
INSERT INTO `table1` (`id`, `action`, `date`, `descrip`, `lastModified`) VALUES (1,'Change','2011-05-05 00:00:00','Account Updated','2012-02-10... (10 Replies)
Hi,
Here's my dilemma.
I need to replace the string Sept_2012 to Oct_2012 in all *config.py files within the current directory and below directories
Is this possible?
Also I am trying to find all instances of the string Sept_2012 within files in the current directory and below
I have... (13 Replies)
I have a file example.txt as follows :SomeTextGoesHere
$$TODAY_DT=20140818
$$TODAY_DT=20140818
$$TODAY_DT=20140818I need to automatically update the date (20140818) in the above file, by getting the new date as argument, using a shell script.
(It would even be better if I could pass... (5 Replies)
Some help please:
Need to find string ||(everything in front of it)B0300|| and replace it with ||0|| globally
In:
16112121||||0||0||0||0||0||52||52||0||0||0||0||1507200053342B0300||1507200053342B0300||0||0||0||0700
Out:
16112121||||0||0||0||0||0||52||52||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0700
... (4 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a xml file, where i need to find this
HOST=dbhost.domain.com
and then replace only
dbhost.domain.com with db.one.in
so finally it should like this
HOST=db.one.in
i tried this but its not working.
sed -i "s/^HOST=*com$/HOST=db.one.in/g" repository.xml
^... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: shajay12
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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)