I am using Unix as my OS on my server and would like to format my hard drive. How do I go about wiping my hard drive or is there a removal tool that I can use? (1 Reply)
I have a script that produces an output containing '/.ssh'.
I am trying to find a way of parsing only this data from a single line, without removing any other special characters contained within the output as a result of the parse.
Any help would be appreciated (6 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
remove all files and only files that the first three characters start with numerals.
2. Relevant commands,... (6 Replies)
I have one process which creates semaphore with permission 600. Then at some part of the code I have line where this semaphore will be removed. Problem I have is that other processes in my program also try to execute this line of code. Of course since they dont have permission they wont be able to... (1 Reply)
I'd like to remove (do a pattern or precise replacement - this I can handle in SED using Regex )
---AFTER THE 1ST Occurrence ( i.e. on the 2nd occurrence - from the 2nd to fourth occurance ) of a specific string : type 1
-- After the 1st occurrence of 1 string1 till the 1st occurrence of... (4 Replies)
I have a multi-line string I'm trying to do some clean-up on.
Example:
1|575|67866|"fgnhdgj"|"afhgajh
agfajgf
ahfjhgfk
ahfkhf"|568
2|56|5435|"mayank"|"gupta
gdja
agdjagf"|677
3|5666|5435|"mayank"|"gupta
gdja
agdjagf"|677
I need a shell script that replace all \n under " ". (11 Replies)
Hello
I've got a string of text with a number in pence, e.g. 0.52p, I need to remove the 'p' so that it just reads 0.52 without of course removing all the other 'p' characters.
Many thanks (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm trying to remove an arbitrary number of semicolons at the end of each line in the input file.
Input:
44;I;1000031;;;B;0137;0;;01.02.2008;03.02.2009;;;;;;;;;;;;;0028-101746;;;
45;I;1000031;;;B;0137;0;;01.02.2008;03.02.2009;;;;;;;;;;;;;0028-101746;;;;;
... (6 Replies)
Hello folks!
Raised a bump on my head trying to figure this one out ;)
I have an xml file which needs to be edited, removing an entire property section in the work. Here's what the target section layout looks like:
<property name="something">
{any number of lines go here}
</property>... (7 Replies)
Hi ,
Can any one help me out how to remove space from below line
select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name='SYSTEM ----space---- ';
i want as :
select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name='SYSTEM';
my code i use
file=/u01/script/latest/tbs.temp
while... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: Praful Pednekar
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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)