Hi everyone,
Having trouble with sed. I searched the board and found some stuff, but still unclear.
I have a file named "userfile" which stores the users info in this form: email:username:password:
I want the user to be able to change their password.
i tried with sed s/oldpass/newpass/g... (2 Replies)
Hi. Does anyone know how to use the sed command to change the special border characters on this .per file. I have to edit about 80 .per files. I need a sed script to change the below 3 and A characters.
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³ Test Islands, Office of Public Health -- WIC... (4 Replies)
I have a text
"abc def ghi"
and I want to get it as
"def abc ghi"
I am using this
echo "abc def ghi" | sed 's/\(*\)\(*\)/\2\1/'
But I am not able to get the output, could anyone help me.
Thanks (9 Replies)
hello
I have this:
sed -e "s/install_location=....../g" -e "s/hostname=....../g" -e "s/server_name=....../y" input.txt
it will display on the screen what have changed. however I want to change file input.txt. Any idea other than doing redirection (>)
thx (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file whose structure is like this
7
7
1 2 3 4 5
1 3 4 8 6
1 4 5 6 0
2 6 8 3 8
2 5 7 8 0
5 7 9 4 1
3 8 0 2 2
3 5 6 8
basically first two row tell the number of rows and column but the data following them are not arranged in that format. now i want to create another... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone,
I've got a problem with converting C comments ( /* */ ) into C++ style ( // ) in some source file with sed. So far I've dealt with comments on one line, but I don't know how to convert when it is over multiple lines ...
So I already have something like this:
comments.sed
... (8 Replies)
I'm changing some html code on multiple web pages and I need to match particular phrases but keep some text within each phrase.
E.G. I need to change this line:
<DIV id="heading">Description:</DIV>
into
<span class="hlred">Description:</span><br />
The text "Description:" may... (2 Replies)
Can somebody help me out and provide me with a SED or AWK solution that converts TO_DATE CLAUSE -> TIMESTAMP
I need to keep the PARTION value (HISTORY_20110417) and DATE/TIME value (2011-04-18 00:00:00) the same for every line
PARTITION HISTORY_20110417 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('... (3 Replies)
I have a file containing numbers in a column like:
10.5
16.3
15.7
2.3
46.8
3.3
.
.
.
and I was wondering if there was a way to make it show up in an array form like:
10.5 2.3
16.3 46.8
15.7 3.3
Let's say I want to make a new column every 100 values. How can I do... (8 Replies)
Hi !
I try to change a time-stamp hh:mm:ss allways to full ten-minutes.
example: 12:51:03 to 12:50:03
sed 's/::/:{0-5}0:/g' file.txt
but it will not work propperly, because the minute-decade will be replaced with the bracket-term {0-5}. Can someone please give me a hint?
Thanks in... (6 Replies)
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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)