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You cannot do like tha. B'coz it will delete all the contents in the file.

Hi Amit,

Thanks for ur reply. The command you have given uses an temp file or intermediate file which i should not use as the file i am going to edit is very huge in MB.

Hi Gaurav,

I tried using sed , it gave the follow error

sed: illegal option -- i
Usage: sed [-n] Script [File ...]
sed [-n] [-e Script] ... [-f Script_file] ... [File ...]

Hi all,

I have requirement where i need to find a pattern and replace it by new word. I used the below perl command

echo `perl -p -i -e "s/AbCdEf/PqRsTu/g;" FileName.txt`

But I am getting...

I am using unix solaris version 8.0
Please let me why is that behaving like that and what could be done for that prroblem.

Thanks in advance.....

Hi All,
I have a strange behaviour from csplit command on some text files.

I have a comma separated file and data with in double quotes. This file is being generated from Sequential stage of...

Thanks all of you.I really Appreciate your help. I have found out a choice perl...

perl -p -i -e "s/Name2||/Name2|98233|/" Temp.txt

:b:
Regards
Kris..

Actually this command will print on the screen not write into file

Hi All,
Could you ppl plz help me in writing into a file , plz find the example below.
Ex:
Name1|092387|Address1
Name2||Address2

After executing command/script the file should look like
...

Hi Masters.....
I have problem !!!
I need to check number of records in a file and if it is zero or file is empty i need to do some task.
if [Zero record]; then
echo "File s empty"
else
echo...

I dint understand how ur solution could help me out in my requirment. If we have $ before any variable the flie throws an error message how to escape it....?????

Hi all,
I have a requirement where the variable name starts with $, like
$Amd=/home/student/test/
How to work wit it? can some one help me, am in gr8 confusion:confused:

actually that is being passed into datastage job as environment varible

Actually my variable is $var can you help me using this

Hi I have to use a Environment variable and that variable has $ prefixed to its name like,
$var=/home/source/test/
i need to use the variable as i have show above. :confused:
Help requested........

i dont have -i for sed in my tool.

actually i want to edit into a file which sed wont do... can u help in perl plz

its actually doing the same job... it is inserting into all line...
i want to insert into first record only... any other correct option..

hi all... i got some requirment where i need to insert some values into first record of flat file. i am using perl for that job.

var1=456
var2=789
echo `perl -p -i -e "s/U/\${var1}U${var2}/g;"...

Thanks Ygor Ur script helped me....

thanks for the help.... but that is not writing into file instead printing on screen.

A header record is to be inserted in the begining of a flat file without using extra file or new file. It should be inserted into same file. Advace thanks for all help...