1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to use sed to look for spaces in text and when find one move the next word to the next line. I used: sed 's/ /\n/g' out > new However when there is more than one space between two words it adds more lines between them. And I just want the words to be one under another. How can I... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, In files, I have a field Date Of Birth (DOB). After that line I need to add Date of Joining (DOJ) DOB:19-Apr-1981 needs to become DOB:19-Apr-1981 DOJ:20-Jun-2005 What can be a sed/perl line that can do it for me. Please note that DOB/DOJ I have in variables I am doing in a... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello friends, I have a C source code containing sql statements. I use the following sed command to print all the sql blocks in the source code.... sed -n "/exec sql/,/;/p" Sample.cpp The above sed command will print the sql blocks based on the pattern "exec sql" & ";"... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends, I have written script that will search & display the block of sql statement. Since there are many blocks of sql statement i am finding it difficult to distinguish between them. The below is the sed command & its result exec sql abc abc abc... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I use the following as part of a script to correct for a faulty hostname file. # get the domain name read -r thehostname < /etc/hostname dom="$(echo $thehostname | cut -d'.' -f2)" numchar=${#dom} if then echo "It appears as though the hostname is not correctly set." echo "Hostname has... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed '$a\ hello' books hi i am trying to use sed to append hello to the end of the file books, but for some reason i can't get it work. It keeps sayin command garbled. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong. this is in a ksh script as well. (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I just wanted to add a new line after every matching pattern: The method doing this doesn't matter, however, I have been using sed and this is what I tried doing, knowing that I am a bit off: sed 'Wf a\'/n'/g' Basically, I want to add a new line after occurrence of Wf. After the line Wf... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

The file which is used is /abc/apps/cobbbbbb/apps/abadv/binder/axyz.bnd /abc/apps/cobbbbbb/apps/abbrio/binder/na6115.bnd /abc/apps/cobbbbbb/apps/abbrio/binder/kc22.bnd /abc/apps/cobbbbbb/apps/abbrio/binder/tr4823.bnd /abc/apps/cobbbbbb/apps/abcmp/binder/cpc0105.bnd The commads which I ran... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed '/patternstring/ a\ new line string' file1 The above code is not working even with the i option.... it shows sed grambled if '\' after new line string is not being used....after using no changes it is displaying..Pls help (5 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi All, My requirement is to add a specific line in a file after a certain line that contains 'setenv' the existing code is like setenv SEQFILES "/ConvWrk/inteng03/alltars/bnymais1" LIBDEF scope='JOB' type='PGM' dataset='SUNAR.PJ90000P.JOBLIB'... (5 Replies)