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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Shell Tigers,
I am trying to acheive search and replace strings within a setup file.
Help much appreciated.
test.setup
ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product/11.0.0/home01
PATH1=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg1
PATH2=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg2/bin
PATH3=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg3/bin
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which requires modification via a shell script.
Need to do the following: 0. take input from user for new text. 1. search for a keyword in the file. 2. going forward, search for another keyword. 3. Replace this line with user supplied input.
for e.g., my file has the following... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm trying the solve the following problem.
I have a file which I intend to use as a csv called master.csv
The columns are separated by commas.
I want to change the text on a specific row in either column 3,4,5 or 6 from xxx to yyy depending upon if column 1 matches a specified pattern.... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I use awk to search for a string, passed from the shell, that might include metacharacters?
File1 entries: Bob Marley Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3
File2 entries: Bob Marley Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3 32000 /Music/Bob Marley/ Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3
So far, I have this;
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I need to extract all the content between two strings stored in two variables "startstring" and "endstring"
startstring=hello
enstring=world
#notworking
awk '/$startstring/, $NF ~ /$endstring/ ' file > file2
The above code is not working with variables. It works when actual string... (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everybody:
I want to replace any field $2 of any file line (f.i. test.txt) matching $1 with a shell variable.
$ cat test.txt
F 0
B A
H -12.33
Now I'm going to ask the value of variable B:
$ SEARCHVAR=B
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Suchen und Ersetzen mit AWK
hello,
i'm not good in scripting and asking for your help.
With this script i change some text parts in diffent datafiles. It works without problems, but i need to get some informations about what changes in wich datafiles happend. This could be in character of a... (3 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
I'd like to be able to rename "sites/WHATEVER/files" to "sites/SOMETHINGELSE/files" within the sql dump.
This is quite easy with sed:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I already have accomplished this task using sed and arrays, but since I get the variable using awk, I figured I'd ask this question and maybe I can get a cleaner solution using strictly awk.. I just can't quite grasp it in awk.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear All,
I want to search and replace the text in file using awk. but facing hard luck in that.
Please help me out!!!!
> grep Abc.De.ync.rate /tmp/sdosanjh.txt
Abc.De.ync.rate 6 write
Now, I want to replace the "6" with value say "2".
I... (5 Replies)
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