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Search special characters in a file and replace with meaningful text messages like Hello (2 Replies)
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Hi Gurus,
I need replace some charactors in a file.
in following example. I need replace from 4th charactor to 6th charactor with x in each line.
abcdefghijklmn
123456789011
excepted result:
abcxxxghijklmn
123xxx789011
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have file 1 say
abc abcd
abc abcd <some tag> xyx
abcd xyz
abc abcd <some tag> xyx
xyz abc
And i have another file say file 2 -
replaced tag1
replaced tag2
Now i want to put value of file2 in file1 whereever it finds <some tag>.
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I just finish the shell script .
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Hi,
I need to replace 10 characters string (21-30) in a file with another string.
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Hi All
At the moment the following code works but ideally i do not want to have to change the original $1
tr "\r" "\n" < "$1" > "$1.fix"
printf "\n" >> "$1.fix"
mv "$1.fix" "$1"
FILE=$1
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Hi,
I have a file in which i want to replace the charaters from position 3-5 with a particular string for the first line.
For ex
The file contains
abcdefghij
jkdsflsfkdk
908090900
i want to replace the characters 3-5 for the first line as 678
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a file with multiple lines. I want to replace characters 7 through 14 of every line with 0000000
Input:
12345678901234567890
23456789012345678901
Output
12345600000004567890
23456700000005678901
Please help.
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Hi,
I have a data like this in a file,
402003279034002000100147626030003300010000000000002000029000000 ær^M^\MÍW^H
I need to replace those special char to some other char like # or $
Is there any ways to do it...
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