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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I am trying to insert a section of text between lines in another text file.
The new lines to be inserted are:
abcd.efgh.zzzz=blah
abcd.efgh.xxxx=blah
Where N = 0 to 2
Original File:
abcd.efgh.wwxx=aaaaa
abcd.efgh.yyzz=bbbbb
abcd.efgh.wwxx=aaaaa
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
Considering below text, how would I use sed to insert text right below the v0005-line, using the SEPARATOR-line as a pattern to search for, so two lines above the separator? I can do it right above the separator, but not 2 lines...
# v0004 - Some text
# v0005 - More text
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I was wondering if anyone new of a solution to this problem? I need to copy a time stamp that is on a line of .text in a text file into multiple positions on the same line.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to search the pattern "ARS (11)" and after the LAST pattern, i am trying to open new line and enter text using sed.
My Existing Text file is Users.txtpaul, Paul Smith, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
sam, Sam Martin, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
sed 's/$/TEST/g' will insert TEST at the end of each line. i want to insert TEST at column 64 (7 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have:
/path/to/my/fixdir/MD1234567.tar
I want to have:
/path/to/my/fixdir/MD/1234567.tar
fixdir never changes but MD does and how many numerical digits does. I want something like:
/usr/bin/sed 's/fixdir\/../fixdir\/..\//'
This ends up:
/path/to/my/fixdir/../1234567.tar
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello. I'm trying to insert text in various positions and I could only do that using pipes for each position.
Example:
cat file | sed -e 's#\(.\{5\}\)\(.*\)#\1:\2#g' | sed -e 's#\(.\{26\}\)\(.*\)#\1:\2#g'
Insert ":" at position 5 and 26.
it can be done in the same sentence, without using... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I know that
sed -n '12p' file
will print line 12 but how might I insert text to a specified line?
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need to insert new text and change existing text in a file. For that I used the below line in the command line and got the expected output.
sed '$a\
hi...
' shell > shell1
But I face problem when using the same in script. It is throwing the error as,
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Hello. Trying to insert text at line 1 and after last line of file. I have searched posts but nothing seems to work. I keep getting extra characters error or nothing gets inserted into the file.
#!/bin/sh
touch textfile.txt
sed 'i\
Add this line before every line with WORD' textfile.txt
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