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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello is it possible with awk or sed to replace any white space with the previous line characters in the same position?
I am asking this because the file I have doesn't always follow a pattern.
For example the file I have is the result of a command to obtain windows ACLs:
icacls C:\ /t... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: nakaedu
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Unix Forums,
I am hoping you can help me with a pattern matching problem.
What am I trying to do?
I want to replace multiple lines of a text file (that match a multi-line pattern) with a single line of text. These patterns can span several lines and do not always have the same number of... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: thefang
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need to replace a line
export TZ=xxxxxxxx
with the line
export TZ=$1
Now, "xxxxxxxx" in the above line is some unknown string and $1 is a parameter. I want the content of $1 to be replaced with "xxxxxxxx".
Kindly help me how to do this in the shell scripting. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ddeeps2610
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
As mentioned in the title I have two text files and I would like to replace line number 5 of file #1 with line number 4 of file #2
e.g.
file 1
wqwert
4.4464002
3
319
286
369
46.320002
56.150002
45.100002
1
1
1
0.723 (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: f_o_555
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm attempting to rename some files that have spaces in them. Without linking sed commands together is it possible to replace the first three "." to " ".
File.name.is.long.ext -> File name is long.ext
I can get the desired effect with
echo "File.name.is.long.ext" | sed 's/\./ /g;s/... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vectox
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
assume that i am having the following line in a file called file1.
triumph and disaster must be treated same.
I want to replace this line with.
follow excellence success will chase you.
is it possible to do this using sed. if possible kindly post me the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: anishkumarv
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
We have 2 file XML files - FILE1.XML and FILE2.xml - we need copy the contents of FILE1.XML and replace in FILE2.xml pattern "<assignedAttributeList></assignedAttributeList>"
FILE1.XML
1. <itemList>
2. <item type="Manufactured">
3. <resourceCode>431048</resourceCode>
4. ... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: balrajg
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
when i am doing the following things getting error
Can anyone please suggest
i have a file where there is a line like the following
branch=dev sdf dev jin kilii fin kale boyle dev james dev
i want to search the existance of dev in the above line.
cat "$file" | sed -n... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: millan
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a problem in the following code ...
while read line
do
#Get Line Number
OLDLINE=`sed -n $Lineno $filename`
echo "Un Changed Line : "$OLDLINE
echo "Enter a New Pattern : "
read NewPattern <&1
echo "NewPattern :"$NewPattern
NEWLINE=`cat $filename | sed -n... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: maxmave
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am needing to replace a whole line of code in a file with a new line of code. This is what I need to do.
I need to replace.
$db_url = 'mysql://test_dev:test12@localhost/test';
With
$db_url = 'mysql://$dbuser:$dbpass@localhost/$dbase';
OK this is where it gets complicated. The... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: filmguy
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