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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am looking for a solution to find files in a folder and subfolders.
Those files should be moved (some with spaces) when they were between 2015 Feb. 03 and 2014 Nov. 24.
find . -type f -newermt "2010-01-01" ! -newermt "2010-06-01"
I am working on a QNAP with a small busybox.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: krischeu
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Unix Forum Group Members,
Please do let me know how I can replace the double pipe with single pipe recursively on single record.
Sample Input Data:
DN set|Call prefix||| Called number address nature
0||| *789|||||||ALL number types
0||| 00||||||||ALL number types
10||... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: srinu.kadem
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i have a file with lines,
file.txt
-------
test is fun
testing is better
I need to replace 'test' to 'develop' and i used,
a=test
b=develop
sed "s,$a,$b,g" -------- but i see the word 'testing' is also replaced. Need some solution. Is there any way i could replace only 'test' ? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: giri_luck
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to replace the line which has string "tablespace" not case senstive....
with below simple script: mysrcipt.sh
sed "s/.*/TABLESPACE USERS/g" create_table > tmp
mv tmp create_table
Is there any better way to do it? If Search string tooooooo long it will be tough to code in... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ganeshd
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but I'm a noob and I can't figure it out. I'm trying to use sed, but would be happy to use anything that does the job.
I am trying to trim off a fixed number of unknown characters from 2 different : delimited fields while keeping the intervening... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: helix_w
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I need to do a global search and replacement of a non-ascii character. Let me first give the background of my problem.
Very frequently, I need to copy set of references from different sources. Typically, a reference would like this:
Banumathy et al., 2002 G. Banumathy, V. Singh and U.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: effjay
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
Here is what I am trying to do: I am taking a class at school that is using a lot of literature that is in the public domain, and available for free on the web. Rather than read them online in HTML, I have been pulling them down and quickly and dirtily tagging them up and typesetting... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ccox85
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Can anyone provide me the replacement of sed with xargs perl syntax for the below
sed -e :a -e '/;$/!N;s/\n//; ta' -e 's/;$//'
This should be without looping has to take minimal time for search (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dbsurf
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Let me explain the situation.
There are many files in a directory and its sub-directories that conatin the string pattern "pa". I want to replace all such instances with the pattern "pranavagarwal"
doing a
grep "pa" `ls`
does give me all the instances of the occurence of that... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: pranavagarwal
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I have the following file that i need to run a sed command on
1<tab>running
2<tab>running
3<tab>running
4<tab>running
I want to be able to replace a line i.e the second one with '2<tab>failed'. As the first number is unique that can be used to search for the relevant line (using ^2 i... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: handak9
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