I suggest using a range expression, so that all replacements occur over all lines. Try:
Also, the parentheses need to be escaped, since they are special in the an (extended) regular expression.
Plus it is better to use a regex constant ( /.../ ) than a regex string ( " ... " ), otherwise the escape character ( \ ) needs to be escaped itself ( \\ )
--
In the example \); were used as the two characters indicating the last line of the range. If there can be spaces between them, you could use something like \)[ \t]*;
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can't figure out a way to delete multiple empty lines but keep single empty lines in a file, file is like this
#cat file
1
2
3
4
5
6
-
What I want is
1
2 (6 Replies)
test data:
Code:
sed -n '/^**$*/,/;/{/;/G;p;}'
What i'm trying to do with the above regex (in bleu)
identify upper/lower case select only when
select is at the beginning of the line OR preceded by a space
select is followed by a space or is at the end of the line.
... (13 Replies)
Hi
I would like to delete ranges of text from an html file;
In the sentence; aqua>Stroomprobleem in Hengelo verholpen <a href="107-01.html"><font color=yellow>107</a>
With several sentences like this in that file, where the text between <a href a> varies, so it needs to be deleted in the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to delete lines in /etc/hosts on few workstations, basically I want to delete all the lines for a list of machines like this :
for HOST in $(cat stations.lst |uniq)
do
# echo -n "$HOST"
if ping -c 1 $HOST > /dev/null 2>&1
then
HOSTNAME_val=`rsh $HOST "sed... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to use sed or awk to delete single lines in a file. By single, I mean lines that are not touching any other lines (just one line with white space above and below).
Example:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
I want it to look like: (6 Replies)
Sample file:
This is line one,
this is another line,
this is the PRIMARY INDEX line
l ;
This is another line
The command should find the line with “PRIMARY INDEX” and remove the last character from the line preceding it (in this case , comma) and remove the first character from the line... (5 Replies)
Hi
I need to delete lines from a file which are after pattern1 and between pattern 2 and patter3, as below:
aaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbb
pattern1
cdededed
ddededed
pattern2
fefefefe <-----Delete this line
efefefef <-----Delete this line
pattern3
adsffdsd
huaserew
Please can you suggest... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am using the following code to fetch lines that are generated in last 1 hr . Hence, I am using date function to calculate -last 1 hr & the current hr and then somehow use awk (or sed-if someone could guide me better)
with some regex pattern.
dt_1=`date +%h" "%d", "%Y\ %l -d "1 hour... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file which contains lakhs of records
0136812368126 03000 Statement
1237129372189 02321 JIT
0136812368126 05000 terminal
1237129372189 05001 Utilise
Is there an option to delete all lines which fall within the range 05000 to 05999?
I tried... (6 Replies)
Hi Members,
This is my first post in this forum.
I want to do is match form feed lines one by one in a file and delete the next n lines (ex-3 lines) with the form feed character
Eg - Files looks like
Data 1
Data 2
Data 3
FF
Hdr1
Hdr2
Hdr3
Data4
Data5
FF
Hdr1
Hdr2
Hdr3 (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: yohan
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)