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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Re: Query on using command "SED" for replacing text in bash shell
While using the command "sed" for find and replace, I wanted to know how one could find a constant and replace it with a variable inside the quotation syntax of sed?
I wanted to replace constant 3 with variable name... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: achandra81
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone,
i need to replace in the second column of my csv file, points by nothing and dash by comma like this:
Input:
1 2 1;12.111.312-2;1.2;2;1-3
2 1 1;11.212.331-1;3.3;1;2-2
Output:
1 2 1;12111312;2;1.2;2;1-3
2 1 1;11212331;1;3.3;1;2-2
SED or PERL commands preferably.
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: satir
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Unix Forums,
I am hoping you can help me with a pattern matching problem.
What am I trying to do?
I want to replace multiple lines of a text file (that match a multi-line pattern) with a single line of text. These patterns can span several lines and do not always have the same number of... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: thefang
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I need to write a Perl script that the file given as first argument of the command line that will find all occurrences of the string given as the third argument of the command line and replace with the string given as the fourth argument. Name newfound file is specified as the second... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: nekoj
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file with lines like this.
2 7 18 ggcgt anna
2 7 18 hhchc sam
3 7 18 hhdjcc ross
4 7 18 hhcjd jenny
0 8 21 jjdhs sam
3 8 21 kkok bush
2 9 24 kosss BrenhamIf the values of the second column are equal, print only those lines with the least first column value. So in... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: polsum
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have an xml file having serveral smiliar lines as below
<INPUT VAR1 ="" DATATYPE ="number(p,s)" VAR2 ="" VAR3 ="3" VAR4="0" VAR5 ="ELEMITEM" VAR6 ="NO" VAR7 ="NOT A KEY" VAR8 ="17" LEVEL ="0" NAME ="UNIX" NULLABLE ="NOTNULL" OCCURS ="0" OFFSET ="19" PHYSICALLENGTH ="15"... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have played with this for some time but i dont seem like i am getting it right. I am trying to change the delimiters on a file so i can import it into a database. this file has rows of data separated by enter
Right now the delimiters are represented by tabs and " ".
e.g.
"dlfkldfs... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: salemh
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I just created a file in vi, looks like this:
Hello nobody
nobody
What I need is to have sed change the file so it looks like this:
Hello everybody
In other words, the sed query needs to look for both instances of "nobody" before it puts the word "everybody" on the first line. ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: calrog
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
So I found a simple sed command to replace text in a file (http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/wordpress-unix-replace-text-multiple-files/1128/):
sed -e 's/OLDtext/NEWtext/' -i file(s)
Because I'm lazy and don't want to remember this each time I want to do this, I wrote the following... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ScKaSx
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
After doing some scripting in a log file, I am left with some lines like this.
10:00:00 Received Message Message ID 1
10:05:00 Published Message Message ID 1
10:10:00 Received Message Message ID 2
10:15:00 Published Message Message ID 2
10:20:00 Received Message Message ID 3
10:26:00... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: srini123
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