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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have this data where i am looking for a two digit number 01,03,05 or 07.
if not found i should detect that .
this sed command gives me the matching rows . I want the opposite , i want the rows if the match is NOT found .
also the sed command is only looking for 01, can i add 03, 05, 07 to... (7 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Need a little bit of help. Basically I need to replace lines in a file which were calculated wrong as it would 12 hours to regenerate the data. I need to calculate values based on other files which I've managed to figure out with grep/cut but now am stuck on how to shove these new... (21 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am trying to modify an xml file and I wanted to search and replace using the sed command but here is my issue. I want to search and replace maximumHeapSize="512" and replace it with maximumHeapSize="768" but I have multiple files with different values so I can't search for... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to search a field and print first field in these record. There is a "*" in the field I want to search, like "TRBD2*01".
I used the command like this:
awk '/TRBD2*01/ {print $1}' test.txt
But it doesn't work. The command line
awk '/TRBD2/ {print $1}' test.txt
will work.
How... (4 Replies)
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5. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
Hi,
I need to run a search and replace on a large database,
what I need to change is all instances of
#### (eg. 1764 or 1964)
to
(####) (eg. (1764) or (1964))
But there might be other numbers in there such as
(1764) and I do not need those changed to ((1764))
How can I... (7 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi,
while in vi, we use /string to look for the particular string. after that operation, the particular string is highlighted in yellow color.
how do i take the highlight off?
thanks so much. (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have one question that hopefully isn't too complicated for the more advanced users here. In one of the Solaris KSH scripts I'm working on, is it possible to script the following:
- If there "is" an empty blank line "at the end" of /tmp/text.txt, then remove only that one empty... (3 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have several files that I need to modify using sed. I know how to do that, but now a new requirement has come up.
Now, I need to make changes to all lines that don't start with certain strings. For example, I need to change all lines except for lines that start with "a", "hello there",... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: RickS
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is my requirement--
I have a list file that contains a list of 50 words.
eg
word1
word2
word3
I want to search/grep for each of those words in a directory/and subdirectories and list the file in which that word exists.
Ne ideas for script/command?
I know grep -r <pattern>... (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a file that contains the following contents:
14:05 apple
orange123
456mango
16:45 banana
I wanted to replace ONLY the "14:05 " and "16:45" with nothing and trying to use the following syntax
sed -e 's/*//g' -e 's/^: //g' my_file > new_temp
cat new_temp
apple
orange... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ghazi
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