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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
hi linux expert
how can i find apostrophe (') symbol in text file by grep? for example for find 'test, the command grep " \'test" * is not useful.
Many Thanks
samad (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: abdossamad2003
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I want to add backslash and apostrophe to variable in my bash script.
I have my variable:
USER_LIST=USER1,USER2,USER3
and I want something like this:
USER_LIST_DEL=/'USER1/',/'USER2/',/'USER3/'
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
For example, I have some words like these:
cabinet's
school's
field's
you'll
I know how to remove apostrophe from these words using this command:
cat filename | tr -s "\'" ' '
But I am not sure how I can remove the letter followed by the apostrophe, so that my output... (3 Replies)
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4. Programming
Hi,
I have a document with usual English text and some of the words have apostrophes (e.g. don't, can't, etc.)
I would like all these apostrophes to be doubled (e.g. don''t, can''t, etc.), but the problem is, that some of such words have double apostrophe and
by using sed -i "s/'/''/g"... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've got:
$string =~ s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g;
Which capitalizes each word in the string. The problem is if I have a string with an apostrophe the first letter after it gets capitalized as well.
So Bob's becomes Bob'S.
Thanks for any quick fixes! (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends,
I need a sed or awk based script to replace a character(alphabet) with ' (Apostrophe). I tried to use the following two commands
1) sed -e 's/a/'/' filename
2) awk '{sub("a","'",$1);print}' filename
but both got failed.
Any help on this.
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm goin to drive crazy soon, if i can not do this. I have a text file (570kb) and i have to replace the apostrophe " ' " and minus "-" with space " ". i have done it for minus:
sed 's/-/ /g' aaa.txt >zzz.txt
this replaced minus with space.
but i can not use the same command for ' .
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello,
I have a simple awk script thus:
egrep populateNode logfile.txt | gawk '{print $11}'
This gives me a list of usernames.
I want to pipe the above command into another command that will surround each username with an SQL insert statement:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using the KSH shell. I am facing a problem of escaping apostrophe('), that is occuring in a variable.
I used the following command, but in vain
item=`echo $item|sed 's/'/\'/g'`
this code replaces the occurance of ' in an xml file to apostrophe(') symbol.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to remove or replace various extraneous characters from a file so that subsequent processes work correctly. The characters that is giving me trouble is the apostrophe '.
The command I 'm trying is
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