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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to make permanent changes in the file after find and replace using sed.
for this i am using sed -i
However this is not working. says
sed: illegal option -- i
I am working on Sun Solaris uname -a
SunOS aspsun14 5.10 Generic_150400-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
any other work... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
(I'm just a newbie in awk & bash scripts) I have a script which replaces one column from an input file with a specified one from the same file. The input and the desired output files are shown below.
~ cat input.file
random text
Fe 1.33 23.23 3.33
C 21.03 23.23 3.33
Cu 0.00 ... (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am facing a problem while using SED in Linux.
I have a property file which contains a string
local.mds.dir=${basedir}/deployCompositesIt has be to replaced with another string, and value of that string should be initialized at runtime. So I use placeholder there. My substituted... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i have a file with lines,
file.txt
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test is fun
testing is better
I need to replace 'test' to 'develop' and i used,
a=test
b=develop
sed "s,$a,$b,g" -------- but i see the word 'testing' is also replaced. Need some solution. Is there any way i could replace only 'test' ? (4 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to replace the line which has string "tablespace" not case senstive....
with below simple script: mysrcipt.sh
sed "s/.*/TABLESPACE USERS/g" create_table > tmp
mv tmp create_table
Is there any better way to do it? If Search string tooooooo long it will be tough to code in... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but I'm a noob and I can't figure it out. I'm trying to use sed, but would be happy to use anything that does the job.
I am trying to trim off a fixed number of unknown characters from 2 different : delimited fields while keeping the intervening... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi friends
i am not getting any idea about how to implement the following with the help of SED cmd
1)need a sed command that deletes the first character in each line in a file
2)need sed command that deletes the character before the last character in each line in a file
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
write the sed command for swapping the first and 2nd (fields)words in the following file
input file
cse1 rama 1223
cse2 raju 2453
cse3 sita 3523
i tried with this
$sed 's/ \(*\)/ \(*\)/ \2,\1' myfile1
but not getting th required... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Can anyone provide me the replacement of sed with xargs perl syntax for the below
sed -e :a -e '/;$/!N;s/\n//; ta' -e 's/;$//'
This should be without looping has to take minimal time for search (0 Replies)
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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)
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