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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
How does sed substitutes a string of characters in a file and replace it with a string passed as an argument to a variable in a script and saves the file with the changes.
Say for example
read name
sed 's/string1/$name/g filename
BTW I am using /bin/sh (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tirmazi
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Write a sed script to extract the year, rank, and stock for the most recent 10 years available in the file top10_mktval.csv, and output in the following format:
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YEAR |RANK| STOCK
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2007 | 1 | Exxon... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: beibeiatNY
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I am very new to shell scripting and have a directory path such as:
/usr/dev/blah/Arch/release/812-1235-P05/files/list and I want to output:
812-1235-P05
I think using sed with a regex like --? would be the way to go, but I am having much trouble getting it to work. Any suggestions?... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: phreezr
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
It seems that I really need some serious regexp study, in the following example,
>cat /tmp/test
abc 7878 7878 7878 7878 123 123 123 345 234 345 345 345 345
>sed 's/\(* \)*/\1/g' /tmp/test
345 345
Why sed deletes all the columns except the last two ones? From what I understood, sed... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: fedora
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am trying to replace an extension in a file name using sed as follows:
echo $filename | sed 's/.txt/.doc/'
My objective is to replace any extension with let's say a .doc extension. Right now, my input may have two extensions; .txt and .csv. I have to replace both with a .doc... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vikas Sood
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
all,
I am trying to write a script that will dynamically change passwords within a group of files. Each file will have a record such as PASSWORD="xxxxxxxxx". I plan on creating a file with a list of passwords, (say 500,000) and then writing a 'for' loop that will cycle thru each, and replace... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: hedrict
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to use 'sed' to substitute some a string, but I can't get it to work.
Can anyone help me, please?
sed 's/d \qmaster\spool1\qmuser/temp_/' account1 > account
There is a space between d and \qmaster (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dbrundrett
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