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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a shell script which has a for loop that scans list of files and do find and replace few variables using sed command. While doing this, it deletes the last line of all input file which is something wrong. how to fix this. please suggest. When i add an empty line in all my input file,... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rbalaj16
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, everyone. Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
I have nagios config files for which I'm adding the custom variable _mac_address. I have a sed script that places this variable into an existing file. The problem I'm having is if a line in the file is commented out, I don't want the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: JimBass
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a simple task to replace unix line feed end of line characters with carriage returns.
When I run the following “change file in place” sed instruction from the command line all the Line feeds are successfully replaced with Carriage returns.
sed -i 's/$/\r/' lf_file.txt
But that same... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: hawkman2k
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
sed /'1-2'/&^/ filename
suppose there is a file containing three lines , how do we do delete the word from each line?
hyter efr frf
rerfer efe ewd
cdcf evrfgf erfv
the output has to look like
frf
ewd
erfv (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rajeev Nukala
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a log file which has sessionids in it, each block in the log starts with a date entry, a block may be a single line or multiple lines. I need to sed (or awk) out the lines/blocks with that start with a date and include the session id.
The files are large at several Gb.
My... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: andyatit
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to find a line in a file ("Replace_Flag") and replace it with a variable which hold a multi lined file.
myVar=`cat myfile`
sed -e 's/Replace_Flag/'$myVar'/' /pathto/test.file
myfile:
cat
dog
boy
girl
mouse
house
test.file:
football
hockey
Replace_Flag
baseball
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bblondin
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi I am trying to use SED to replace the line matching a pattern using the command
sed 'pattern c\
new line
' <file1 >file 2
I got two questions
1. how do I insert a blank space at the beginning of new line?
2. how do I use this command to execute multiple command using the -e... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: piynik
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with data records separated by multiple equals signs, as below.
==========
RECORD 1
==========
RECORD 2
DATA LINE
==========
RECORD 3
==========
RECORD 4
DATA LINE
==========
RECORD 5
DATA LINE
==========
I need to filter out all data from this file where the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Finja
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I'd like to delete the beginning of a line up until it finds a certain word or character string: in this case, I'd like to delete each line up to the word "mounting".
Thanks ;)
Susan (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: kitykity
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
sed novice bashing away at this....
I am trying to build a sed script that will find the instances of "cn" that have more than one "DirXML" value on them.... see sample below:
I am not having any luck with any variation that tries to find "DirXML.*\nDirXML.*". Isn't there a way to get sed to... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: gosleddog
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