Correct, it matches 0 or more charcters of that. The brackets surrounding it have a special meaning when you run sed with -r: it remembers that specific section in order to refer to it later. We match the entire string and keep the bit we want with brackets.
The .*$ lets the pattern match the entire string so it can replace the entire string. We want to delete everything after the hello, so we have to match it too.
Having matched the whole string, we keep the part we want as a backreference. \1 refers to the first section in brackets, \2 the second, and so forth. It needs the -r flag to work.
The last 'g' lets it match the pattern more than once if possible. Observe:
Last edited by Corona688; 01-14-2010 at 02:20 PM..
Hi , I need to remove pipe character from a |^ delimeted file.
Something like |^tran|sformers||^|revenge |of fallen|^ to
|^transformers|^revenge of fallen|^...
Cold anybody please help to build the regular expression using sed .
many thanks.
Please use code tags next time for... (1 Reply)
I am learning SED and just following the shell scripting book, i have trouble understanding the grep and sed statement,
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/opt/oracle/work/antony>cat teledir.txt
jai sharma 25853670
chanchal singhvi 9831545629
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shyam saksena 23217847
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I'm trying to extract the lines between two consecutive elements of an array from a file.
My array looks like:
problem_arr=(PRS111 PRS213 PRS234)
j=0
while } ]
do
k=`expr $j + 1`
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Hi all,
I want to get a substring from a string based on given delimiter, for example:
str="foo|bar|baz" with delimiter "|",
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given 3 to get "baz",
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Hi all,
How am I read a file, find the match regular expression and overwrite to the same files.
open DESTINATION_FILE, "<tmptravl.dat" or die "tmptravl.dat";
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Hi ,
I am learing sed
echo abc 123 def 456 | sed 's|\(*\) \(*\)|\1|'
is returning abc def 456
i was hoping abc def "\1" should only print the occurence of the first pattern
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please consider this:
echo "11111*X*005010X279~ST*270*1111111*005010X279~BHT*0011*11" | sed 's/.*\(005010X(\d)(\d)(\d)*\).*$/\1/'i'm searching for first occurrence of 005010X while leaving rest of characters out.
:confused:
any tips? thnx in advance guys. (7 Replies)
Hi
I need to get text that are within ""
For example
File:
asdasd "test test2" sadasds asdda asdasd "demo demo2"
Output:
test test2 demo demo2
Any help is good
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Hi,
I'm trying following:echo "test line XA24433 test" | sed 's/.*X\(.*\)/X\1/'
XA24433 test While I want the output as: XA24433
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