Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I am trying to search and replace but I don't know how to do it. My simple knowlegde in search and replace using sed is not helping me at all.

File:

Code:

its a cause value #22: dfg ggg
Cause value #1: aasfa fasdf
asfa value #22: affg gggg

Basically i want to replace the colon( with hash (#) while retaining the rest of the words on that line.

this is the format:

Code:

value #[can be any number]:

The logic would be like:
1. Find the line containing the word "value #22:" (22 can be any number)
2. Replace the colon with hash, "value #22#"

I need to change the : to # because my script that will further process this is not working on line with colon.

Appreciate your help.

Code:

$ ruby -pne '$_.gsub!(/value #(\d+):/,"value #\\1#")' file
its a cause value #22# dfg ggg
Cause value #1# aasfa fasdf
asfa value #22# affg gggg

hi,

try this:

Code:

sed -e '/value #[0-9]*:/{ s/value #\([0-9]*\):/value #\1#/ }' inputfile

it says "command garbled"

Code:

perl -i -pe 's/(value #\d+):/$1#/g' input_file

Or maybe with:

Code:

sed 's/\(#[0-9]*\):/\1#/' file

dragon.1431's sed command is working in my linux box. Anyway pls try the below code..

Code:

sed 's/value #\([0-9][0-9]*\):/value #\1#/g' inputfile