Thanks for your replies.
I prefer amit_sapre suggestion - echo sed command into file and run it.
My problem is now with the echo command.
I cannot issue the command :
because of the back-slashes (\) and the inverted commas(').
I need the "magic formula" for this echo.
Hello all
i have big test file that has allot of structure text something like this :
<foo1 *.html>
<blah action>
somthing 1
somthing 2
</blah>
</foo1 >
now i will like to insert 2 more lines of text below the <blah action>
so it will be like :
<foo1... (1 Reply)
Hi, guys. I have one question:
How can I search for a line with certain string in it and then insert a string into this line?
For example:
There is a file called shadow, the contents of it are below:
**************************
...
yuanz:VIRADxMsadfDF/Q:0:0:50:7:::... (9 Replies)
Hi,, Please excuse my lack of knowledge here. I think I am tring to do something fairly advanced yet am a bit of a beginner.....
I want to use a korn shell (as is the norm with others in my company) to write a script to search a file for a string and insert some text above that line.
Sudo... (5 Replies)
I just want to add a particular string in text file using shell script
text file format
1 columns-10
2 text=89
3 no<>
4
5 test-9876
6 size=9
string need to insert in 4th line
<switch IP='158.195.2.567' port='5900' user='testc' password='asdfrp' Code='8'>
After inserting the... (8 Replies)
Hi
I need to update a number of existing files and insert #!/bin/ksh line a the first line of the file.
Is there any awk or sed command which would help me to do that instead of doing it manually?
Thanks a lot -A (10 Replies)
Hi all,
can some one help me out
file 1 i have
06/01 3:14 d378299
06/01 8:10 d642036
06/01 10:51 d600441
06/01 10:52 d600441
06/01 11:11 d607339
06/01 11:49 d398706
something like this and in file named list i have ( there is space btwn 06/01 and 11:49 and d398706)
d607339... (5 Replies)
I have a large file with interface records. I need to check every record that has the string "encapsulation bridge1483" and if the next line after this does not have "ip description" then I need to insert a line to add "ip description blah_blah_blah.
Sample file:
interface atm 1/0.190158... (3 Replies)
I need to read a text file and insert a string every n lines, but also have the line counter restart when I come across a header string.
Line repeating working every 3 lines using code:
sed '0~3 s/$/\nINSERT/g' < INPUT/PATH/FILE_NAME.txt > OUTPUT/PATH/FILE_NAME.txt
I cannot seem to find... (1 Reply)
Hi All
I'm trying to insert a new line at the before each comment line in a file.
Comment lines start with '#-----'
there are other comments with in lines but I don't want a new line there.
Example file:
blah
blah #do not insert here
#this is a comment
blah #some more
#another comment... (10 Replies)
i am having file like this
#!/bin/bash
read -p 'Username: ' uservar
match='<color="red" />'
text='this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />'
echo "$text" | sed "s/$match/&$uservar\g"
so desireble output what i want is if user type MARIA
this is only a test
so please... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: tomislav91
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shtool-echo
SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command
SYNOPSIS
shtool echo [-n|--newline] [-e|--expand] string
DESCRIPTION
shtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold
mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick of this command is that it provides a portable -n option and hides the
gory details needed to find out the environment details under option -e.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-n, --newline
By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is
omitted.
-e, --expand
If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output is written. Currently the
following constructs are recognized:
%B switch terminal mode to bold display mode.
%b switch terminal mode back to normal display mode.
%u the current user name.
%U the current user id (numerical).
%g the current group name.
%G the current group id (numerical).
%h the current hostname (without any domain extension).
%d the current domain name.
%D the current day of the month.
%M the current month (numerical).
%m the current month name.
%Y the current year.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool echo -n -e "Enter your name [%B%u%b]: "; read name
shtool echo -e "Your Email address might be %u@%h%d"
shtool echo -e "The current date is %D-%m-%Y"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool echo command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Website META Language (WML)
under the name buildinfo. It was later taken over into GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), echo(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)