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using nawk (yes, with Solaris), here's the error I get:

nawk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
!f && >>> /users_here/{sub(usera,* <<< ,),f=1}1
nawk: illegal statement at...

neither seem to work, get errors with both.

running this I get:

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

running both "sed -i" commands results in:
sed: illegal option -- i

ok, I should have been a bit more clear. Some of versions of this file can be varying on some machines. The one identical factor is that the line on every machine will start with 'users_here' (for...

looking for a script or command to push out from a centralized machine to multiple machines. I have the software in place that will do this already, but I need to tell it what command to run on each...

ok, before i run this, if i use the same outfile as infile, will it just update the file and not delete everything else in the file?

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bump, no help on this one???

thanks for the reply you two, but the thing is that I don't want to output the file to a new file. I want to run this command on the file, and have it pull 'usera' and exit the file.

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i got a "Badly formed address" error message running that command??

bump, any help on this and the -i option?????

hmmmm, i get this error when running that command: sed: illegal option -- i

ah, yes i will want to remove the comma, but i also don't want to output the file to a new file. i want to manipulate this file, remove the 'usera,' and exit the file. can this be done?

hi,

I'm looking for a sed command to delete one word in a string. so i have a file with text like this:

# this is my file
users_here[tab space]u1=usera,userb,userc
users_there[tab...

thing is, i only want the word 'coat' removed, and the line left there.......

anyone know an easy sed command to search out the line with that exact string first, and then remove the word 'coat'...

while helpful, it's not what i'm trying to do.

i'm trying to search a file to find that one specific line (mentioned in the original post), remove 'coat' IF it's contained in the line, and leave...

hmmmm, didn't pull 'coat' out of the line :confused:

Seems like there should be some easier sed/grep&delete/awk commands to do this, but I'm not familiar, obv, with them

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Ok, that's what I thought, but I only want the instance of 'coat' in that specific line removed. I want all the other instances of 'coat' left alone. I should have been more clear to begin with.

thanks, but I think this might be missing something? I tested it like this:

sed 's/coat (tab) hat$/hat/' myfile > myfile

and it ended up deleting everything else in the file, and all i want...

let me start out by saying i have ZERO exp with any kind of scripting, so sorry if this is really basic stuff.....

For example, I need to have a script that will search a file and find this line...