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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Just surfed on the web for probable answers but could not get them working.
I wish to replace the string containing spaces by another phrase but below answers did not work.
My string is:
PAIN & GAIN
I wish to convert it to:
P&G
I just need it working with sed with function -i
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to replace a string by contents of file.
I am trying the following sed command:
cat sample | sed "s^<enter description here>^`cat details`^"
But it is not working.
a=`cat details` and using $a will not help since it will affect the whitespaces.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Unix Forum Group Members,
Please do let me know how I can replace the double pipe with single pipe recursively on single record.
Sample Input Data:
DN set|Call prefix||| Called number address nature
0||| *789|||||||ALL number types
0||| 00||||||||ALL number types
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file that contains RewriteRules for 200 countries (2 examples for 1 country below):
RewriteRule ^/at(/|/index.html|)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/locate/index.html?locale=de_AT
#&
RewriteRule ^/at_english(/|/index.html|)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/locate/index.html?locale=en_AT
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to use the regex in the replacement string in SED command.
something like
sed -e ' s/\(^\{5\}\).\{150\}\(.*\)$/\10\{30\}1\{30\}A\{60\}B\{30\}\2/' abc
which means for all the lines in file abc that starts with 5 characters, I need to replace character 6-151... (6 Replies)
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Hey everybody. I've got a simple problem but am unsure how to resolve it. I am using a script to edit multiple files at once. Inside the script I am using an sed command to make the changes. My problem is that I can only get it to work for stings that contain a word or words. How can I modify it to... (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
What should be the syntax to match and replace an exact string using sed? And not replacing any string that contain the value?
Eg.
testtest
etstetst
testetst
testtttt
etsttest
testtesttest
testtest
I only want to replace the line with exact string "testtest" with "123456"
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to search and replace a particular string in a file. Only the exact match of the string should be replaced.
eg: File contents : abc abcd abcdef
--> Replace only 'abc' with 'xyz', but it should not replace abcd with xyzd.
So the o/p should be: xyz abcd abcdef.
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file that I would like to translate using sed.
I can do some basic sed commands, but Im afraid this level is beyond me.
I have this file -
...alter...
..
...65536...
...
...65536...
...
...alter...
...
...65536...
etc
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem.
I have a text file that contains lines like this:
78 ANGELO -809.05
79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06
I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's
78 ANGELO xxxxxxx
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