If you could find the first line number to change, like 250 in this example, then it is not hard:
Same line works in vi with ':', ex, ed. Usually, you find the first line in vi and say ':.,$s . . . .'
Yes, the search string occurs only once in each line. I'd like to do this from the command line.
if it'll be difficult to make the changes on the "last" 250 occurrence of the search string, then I can work with the first 250 occurrences of the search strings.
Hi All,
I have a requirement to replace consecutive occurence of same string nedd to be replaced. Below is the input and desired output.
Input:
---------
123.5|ABC|.|.|.
234.4|DEF|.|.|.|.|.|
Output:
---------
123.5|ABC|||.
234.4|DEF|||||
so basically "|.|" need to be replaced with... (9 Replies)
if there's a file containing:
money king money queen money cat money also money king
all those strings are on one line in the file.
how can i find out how many times "money king" shows up in the line?
egrep -c "money king" wont work. (7 Replies)
I couldn't find the answer anywhere, so I hope you could help me.
I need to change something like the following:
something/bla/aaaa
anything/bbb
to:
something
--bla
----aaaa
anything
--bbb
How do I do this?
Is it possible with sed?
I tried various patterns, but don't know how to... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have requirement to find nth occurrence in a file and capture data from with in lines (between lines)
Data in File.
<QUOTE>
<SESSION>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME='Parameter Filename' VALUE='file1.parm'/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME='Service Name' VALUE='None'/>
</SESSION>
<SESSION>
<ATTRIBUTE... (6 Replies)
Lets say I have file.txt:
(Product:Price:QuantityAvailable) (: as delimiter)
Chocolate:5:5
Banana:33:3
I am doing a edit/update function.
I want to change the Quantity Available, so I tried using the SED command to replace 5, but my Price which is also 5 is changed instead.
(for the Banana... (13 Replies)
I need a sed line that will take STDM111 and change it to STDM161
the STDM will always be constant but the 3 numbers after will be random, I just need it to always replace the middle number with 6 regardless of what the numbers are. (8 Replies)
Hi, I am totally new to shell scripting.
I have a String "c:\working\html\index.txt.12-12-2009.bkp" I want to check if the string has more than one "." character. If it does I would like to retrieve only "c:\working\html\index.txt" i.e, discard the second occurrence of "." and the rest of the... (7 Replies)
hi all,
I have a text file with following content
PAGENUMBER
asasasa
asasasa
PAGENUMBER
sasasasasa
PAGENUMBER
using sed i want to replace PAGENUMBER by occurrence count
eg
1
asasasa
asasasa
2
sasasasasa
3 (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a very large; delimited file. In vi I would like to replace:
CSACT_DY;AVG_UEACT1;uesPerActiveLinkSetSize_1;#;A
CSACT_DY;AVG_UEACT2;uesPerActiveLinkSetSize_2;#;A
CSACT_DY;AVG_UEACT3;uesPerActiveLinkSetSize_3;#;A
with:
CSACT_DY;AVG_UEACT1;Average... (7 Replies)