Hi All,
I have a file that I need to be able to find a pattern match on a line, search that line for a text pattern, and replace that text.
An example of 4 lines in my file is:
1. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData ReplaceMe moreData
2. MatchText_randomNumberOfText moreData moreData... (4 Replies)
I was google searching and found
Perl as a command line utility tool
This almost solves my problem:
find . | xargs perl -p -i.old -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g'
I think this would create a new file for every file in my directory tree. Most of my files will not contain oldstring and I... (1 Reply)
There appears to be several threads that touch on what I'm trying to do, but nothing quite generic enough.
What I need to do is search through many (poorly coded) HTML files and make changes. The catch is that my search string may be on one line or may be on several lines.
For example there... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am very new to Linux and am trying to find a way for following problem.
I have a number of files in a folder as Export000.dat, Export001.dat ..and so on.
Each file has a string field 'Absolute velocity'. I want it to be replaced by 'Pixel shift' in all the files. I tried something like... (4 Replies)
Hello
I need to search for a mult-line strngs(with spaces in between and qoted) in a file1 and replace that text with Fixed string globally in file1. The strng to search for is in file2.
The file is big with some 20K records. so speed and effciency is required
file1: (where srch & rplc... (0 Replies)
Hi,
Ive spent ages trying to find an explanation for how to do this on the web, but now feel like I'm :wall:
I would like to change each occurence (there are many within my script) of the following:
to
in Vim. I know how to search and replace when it is just single lines... (2 Replies)
What is the best way (bash/awk/sed?) to read in two text files and do a keyword search/replace?
file1.txt:
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Dallas
file2.txt:
I love Los Angeles.
Coming to Dallas was the right choice.
San Francisco is fun.
Go to Seattle in the summer.
... (3 Replies)
I have a file which requires modification via a shell script.
Need to do the following: 0. take input from user for new text. 1. search for a keyword in the file. 2. replace the line next to this to this keyword with user supplied input.
for e.g., my file has the following text:
(some... (7 Replies)
Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::RequireCheckedOpen(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentatioPerl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::RequireCheckedOpen(3)NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::RequireCheckedOpen - Write "my $error = open $fh, $mode, $filename;" instead of "open $fh, $mode,
$filename;".
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
The perl builtin I/O function "open" returns a false value on failure. That value should always be checked to ensure that the open was
successful.
my $error = open( $filehandle, $mode, $filename ); # ok
open( $filehandle, $mode, $filename ) or die "unable to open: $!"; # ok
open( $filehandle, $mode, $filename ); # not ok
use autodie;
open $filehandle, $mode, $filename; # ok
You can use autodie, Fatal, or Fatal::Exception to get around this. Currently, autodie is not properly treated as a pragma; its lexical
effects aren't taken into account.
CONFIGURATION
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
AUTHOR
Andrew Moore <amoore@mooresystems.com>
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This policy module is based heavily on policies written by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Andrew Moore. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.16.3 2014-06-09 Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::RequireCheckedOpen(3)