I am new to unix world , i would like to search string and return back to another sh script.
bascially i want to read file Sample.txt find the string between <ownername> Sample.txt < ownername> . Gerneric way to find the string between <>x<>.Could you please help me to get the code for the same.
Narrative: grep for the tag and then some characters not < and then the string and then more not < and then the closing tag.
grep can find the lines with string in tags, but sed can dig out the string. This assumes one per line:
Narrative: select in every line with a regex that captures the whole line but a substring captures the string between tags, and replace the whole line with that substring. If the replacement occurs, branch to end of script (print and go to next line) else delete line.
I like sed because the bits and pieces are reusable in sed, vi, ex, ed, grep, egrep, ksh command line editing, C, JAVA, PERL, awk.
Please clarify what the input format is. In your first posting, there is a space before the ending tag label, in your last one, there is no more space. Everyone is expecting a / there but your files might not be xml. In that case, that might be:
Hi All,
I hope somebody would be able to help me.
I would need to search a string coming from a file, example file.txt:
dog
cat
goat
horse
fish
For every string, I would need to know if there are any files inside a directory(recursively) that contains the string regardless of case.... (9 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a text file named file1.txt that is formatted like this:
001 , ID , 20000
002 , Name , Brandon
003 , Phone_Number , 616-234-1999
004 , SSNumber , 234-23-234
005 , Model , Toyota
007 , Engine ,V8
008 , GPS , OFF
and I have file2.txt formatted like this:
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Hi,
Need your help for this scripting issue I have. I am not really good at this, so seeking your help.
I have a file looking similar to this:
Hello, i am human and name=ABCD.
How are you?
Hello, i am human and name=PQRS.
I am good.
Hello, i am human and name=ABCD.
Good bye.
Hello, i... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I need someone's help in writing correct perl code.
I implemented following code for "multiple search strings replaced with single string".
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#!/usr/bin/perl
my $searchStr = 'register_inst\.write_t\(' |... (2 Replies)
I need to search the file using strings "Request Type" , " Request Method" , "Response Type" and by using result set find the xml tags and convert into a single line?. below are the scenarios.
Cat test
Nov 10, 2012 5:17:53 AM
INFO: Request Type
Line 1.... (5 Replies)
I have a file with
<suit:run date="Trump Tue 06/19/2012 11:41 AM EDT" machine="garg-ln" build="19921" level="beta" release="6.1.5" os="Linux">
Need to find word "build" then
extract build number, which is 19921 also
release number, which is 6.1.5 then
concatenate them to one variable as... (6 Replies)
I would like to search for strings stored in searchstringfile.txt in inputfiles.
searchstringfile.txt
J./F.
Gls. Wal
F.
Towerinput1.txt
What is needed is J./F. 12 var Gls. Wal 16 interp. Tower 12 input2.txt
Awk shall search for F. 16 pt. J./F. 22 output.txt
input1.txt J./F. = 12 var... (3 Replies)
What's the easiest way to search a file for a specific string and then look for other instances after that? I want to search for all Virtual Hosts and print out the Server Name and Document Root (if it has that info), while discarding the rest of the info.
Basically my file looks like this:
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I tried awk for this, but failed <or my code is not correct? I dont know>. Can anyone help me on this?
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my working file looks like this:
<empty>
<empty>
<empty>
NAME :ABC AGE :15
GENDER... (6 Replies)