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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 All,
I am facing a problem while using SED in Linux.
I have a property file which contains a string
local.mds.dir=${basedir}/deployCompositesIt has be to replaced with another string, and value of that string should be initialized at runtime. So I use placeholder there. My substituted... (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i have a file with lines,
file.txt
-------
test is fun
testing is better
I need to replace 'test' to 'develop' and i used,
a=test
b=develop
sed "s,$a,$b,g" -------- but i see the word 'testing' is also replaced. Need some solution. Is there any way i could replace only 'test' ? (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to replace the line which has string "tablespace" not case senstive....
with below simple script: mysrcipt.sh
sed "s/.*/TABLESPACE USERS/g" create_table > tmp
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Is there any better way to do it? If Search string tooooooo long it will be tough to code in... (4 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but I'm a noob and I can't figure it out. I'm trying to use sed, but would be happy to use anything that does the job.
I am trying to trim off a fixed number of unknown characters from 2 different : delimited fields while keeping the intervening... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to search and replace a particular string in a file. Only the exact match of the string should be replaced.
eg: File contents : abc abcd abcdef
--> Replace only 'abc' with 'xyz', but it should not replace abcd with xyzd.
So the o/p should be: xyz abcd abcdef.
How can this be done? I... (5 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Can anyone provide me the replacement of sed with xargs perl syntax for the below
sed -e :a -e '/;$/!N;s/\n//; ta' -e 's/;$//'
This should be without looping has to take minimal time for search (0 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi using the below cmd i am identifying wheether last character in each line in thousands of files as semicolon or not.If last character is semicolon i am removing semicolon .If last character is not semicolon then i am appending next line to present line .
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file that I would like to translate using sed.
I can do some basic sed commands, but Im afraid this level is beyond me.
I have this file -
...alter...
..
...65536...
...
...65536...
...
...alter...
...
...65536...
etc
What I would like to do is replace the first... (11 Replies)
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Hi
I have the following file that i need to run a sed command on
1<tab>running
2<tab>running
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4<tab>running
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