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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all, I am trying to remove quite a lot of numbers for a file I have which looks something along the lines of;
1,2,3,4,5,6 etc
I have a list of numbers I want removing looking like;
10000
10987
16572
etc
etc
and have been trying to run;
for id in `cat list` ; do sed -i -e... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: JayC89
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all, I am trying to use SED to input lines to a file in a specific place.
So far I have;
sed '/#NewEntry/ i\Insert this line' myfile.txt
The output is printing to screen correctly but what is the best way to write it back to the file without overwriting everything?
I tried adding >... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: JayC89
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3. OS X (Apple)
Hello Im fairly familiar with using the sed command for substitution, however I have been passed a script which checks the logged on username and directory type with a sed section which I cant figure out. The sed function has me baffled and I cant find out from the man page what its trying to do... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: costaanglais
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a sed query.
There is a line which has tilde and I want to separate this line using sed.
The line is:
ABP_ETC_ROOT=~xdmadm
The query to get this line is:
sed -n '/\(.*\)~\(.*\)/p' infile
I want to get xdmadm from this line and I am using this sed command:
sed -n... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: som.nitk
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i had posted this earlier.. got no reply !!
how to change assigned value in a file using sed
suppose the file contains
age = 30;
how to change it to
age =50;
i tried sed 's/^age*./age =50;' filename but i am getting the o/p as
age =50; 30;
plz hlp!! (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gopsman
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have done a script using sed which replaces a string in file.
I face 2 problems, while using sed command.
1)last line of the file is missing.
2)if i am are using wild card character in the command, Its not taking the next matching pattern ie if I am giving the pattern abc*def to be replaced... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: iceiceice
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Penchal,
I would appreciate if you can provide me a brief explanation on what you are trying to do in the commnad below.
echo "6-9-2008" | sed 's/\(.\)-\(.\)-\(.*\)/\3-0\2-0\1/g'
Thanks
Amit (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a file which looks like this
//string = "abcd"; //info
//string = "*pqrs"; //add
string = "#123"; //sub
//string = "#1234567890"
data = check(string)
//string = "#1234567890"
I want to modify this as
string = "#987"; //mult
data = check(string)
How do i do that? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gopsman
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a series of folders /temp/a /temp/b /temp/c
In folders a, b, and c, I have files
a1.txt..........a20.txt
b1.txt..........b40.txt &
c1.txt..........c60.txt
Each file has the same data format :-
Line 1 AAAAA aaaa
Line 2 BBB bbbbbb
Line 3 CCCC cccccc
Etc etc
I need to write a... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: grinder182533
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi, I have an xml file and I need to replace the tags with different names all at a time here is what I have
<cevalue>
<cevalue1>
<cevalue2>
<cevalue3>
<cevalue4>
<cevalue5>
and I need these like these...
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
<cevalue>
I tried a few but... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mgirinath
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