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Many thanks again Agama
Regards

Thankyou very much
Will that change do the same for all instances of those patterns searched?
In the files I search, there are many instances of one or the other of the patterns, I assume this will...

Hello sorry for the probably simple question - searching about the forums and Internet, I have not found the answer.

Could you tell me please how to do a multiple pattern match with SED

So it...

Thanks Agama
I will re-write the script with what you showed me there and let you know.

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Hi I tried the...

Thanks yes. I tried with a number of senarios with " " around the
-e "x;/12345/!d; -e 'x;/8888/!d" and have tried -e "x;/12345/!d"; -e "x;/8888/!d" and tried -e "x;/12345/!d;" -e "x;/8888/!d"...

Thanks yes I did try that but it did not print out. when I changed the command from
-e "x;/$string1/!d;" to -e "x;/$string/d"
then I get a limited print out.
It closes with

Hello.
Yes, the strings are user input, just numbers or straight text no special characters or symbols.
Regards.
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Hello I am hoping you can help.
I use ksh in Solaris9

I am trying to pass user imputed variables into SED but for some reason can only get SED to recognize one variable.
I have experimented with...

Thanks very much, I will try this when I am next at work on Monday.
I was not aware of the IFS "/" so it was interesting to read your post.
Thanks again:b:

Thanks for the site. That find command is very handy and powerful but I am not sure I can use it in my case.
Some problems I have are.
-That the directory contains upto 2 weeks of files.
-Can...

Hello I would like to ask for help with a script to search a directory that contains many log files and based on a users input after being prompted, they enter a date range down to the hour which...

Thanks again, I think it must be the way Iam trying to use the user input (there typed serached word) I may not be setting it right as the variable (string)

date=$( date +%d%m%y$h%m%s ) ...

Hello
what I am am trying to do is indent the paragraph containing OUT
and at the same time extract on any paragraph that contains both OUT and string (user input).
The NAWK works beautifully for...

Thanks for replying Chubler
For some reason it still seems to ignore the $string variable and prints out the paragraphs with the defined OUT contained in it.
I tried both methods you gave me...

Hello may I ask
I have been having trouble with user input that produces a variable to put into this NAWK command. Other words the user inputs data when prompted and that data is inserted into the...

Thankyou that description you gave is exactly right, the user enters the filename to be searched followed by the text they wan to search for.

what I found is the SED commands do strip out in the...

Thankyou
Yes sorry, the command you mentioned
sed ..... <$filename >$newfilename # incomplete command, not sure what you need the sed to doI am using a SED command to delete a blank lines...

Hello I am hoping you may help.

I am not sure how to go about this exactly, I know the tools but not sure how to make them work together.

I have two SED commands that I would like to run in a...

Thankyou so much, that worked perfectly.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Much appreciated, regards

Hello thankyou very much it really worked well, however it seemed to only indent the paragraph by a few spaces, is it possible to increase the spaces or indent - perhaps by 2 tabs?
Thankyou again...

Thankyou very much I will try this.
Kind regards

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Thanyou, I tried this but the awk...

Yes sorry hard to demonstrate, here is some more example.
If I have a file which I want to search for patterns located in paragraphs patterns - bobby, larry, sally. using command
sed -e...

Hello yes apologies, I am trying to align or offset a paragraph slightly - either center or by a few spaces.
For example on these searched AAA BBB CCC strings . I would like the desired output...

Hello I am a newbie in scripting and I am hoping someone may help with a method of aligning or tabbing selected text as its output.

For example, using the SED command to extract paragraphs...