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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm using Bash and Sed to replace text within a text file (1.txt) twice in one script. Using a for loop I'm initially replacing any 'apple' words with the variable 'word1' ("leg). I'm then using another for loop to replace any 'apple' words with the variable 'word2' ("arm"). This task is... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Saying we have two files:
1. A "Reference File" whose content is "Variable Name": "Variable Value"
2. A "Model File" whose content is a model program in which I want to substitute "VariableName" with their respective value to produce a third file "Program File" which would be a... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: dae
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I worked for almost a half-day for the replacement of some text automatically with script. But no success.
The problem is I have hundred of files, which need to be replaced with some new text. It's a painful work to work manually and it's so easy to do it wrong.
For example,
I... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: liuzhencc
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, guys!
"filename" has blocks with three lines each in this fashion:
93909286
#verified
has one bug
10909286
#unverified
pending
10909286
#unverified
pendingThe above example has duplicate blocks, and I have tried using sed to remove just one block... The... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: teresaejunior
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
My apologies if this has been answered in a previous post. I've been doing a lot of searching, but I haven't been able to find what I was looking for. Specifically, I am wondering if I can utilize sed and/or awk to locate two strings in a file, and replace everything between those two strings... (12 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Im trying to find and replace text within a unix file using sed.
The command that i have been using is
sed '/,null,/ s//, ,/g' result.txt>result.tmp
for replacing ",null," with ", ,".
But this only replaces the first occurrance of ,null, in every line. I want to do it globally.
It... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: sohaibs
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I would like to print a block of text between 2 regular expression using Sed,
This can be achieved by using the command as shown below, however my problem is the same block of text is repeated twice. I would like to eliminate the duplicate block of text.
For Example
If my file... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dkumar91
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi group,
I want to replace the occurance of a particular text in a paragraph.I tried with Sed,but Sed only displays the result on the screen.How can i update the changes in the original file???
The solution should be a one liner using awk and sed.
Thanks in advance. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bishnu.bhatta
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello people,
i am trying to accomplish what i thought should be a simple task: find a token in a file and delete a number (let's say 25) of lines following the token.
in sed, i can't figure out how to do a relative address (i.e. something like /token/25dd to delete 25 lines) and in gnu grep,... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: toast
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I have the following file that i need to run a sed command on
1<tab>running
2<tab>running
3<tab>running
4<tab>running
I want to be able to replace a line i.e the second one with '2<tab>failed'. As the first number is unique that can be used to search for the relevant line (using ^2 i... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: handak9
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