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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings!
I've run into this before; and am having a spot of trouble trying to figure out the way that Perl would prefer the following example syntax to be formed:#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
`sed -i 's/Hi Mom!\|Hi Dad!/Bye Everyone!/I' ./test.txt`;Perl... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: LinQ
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Friends,
In the file i am having more then 100 lines like,
File1 had the values like this:
#Example East.server_01=EAST.SERVER_01
East.server_01=EAST.SERVER_01
West.server_01=WEST.SERVER_01
File2 had the values like this:
#Example EAST.SERVER_01=http://yahoo.com... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jothi basu
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have string as below
str=".<date>"
in which i need to replace < with /< , when i tried with sed , got the output.
--> echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'
.\<date>
when i tried to assign it to a variable , i am not getting the same
--> a=`echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'` ; echo $a... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: expert
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need help in escaping special characters in sed command.
Here is the the string which i am trying to find a replace with
From :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID={//MESSAGE_ID}
To :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID= X_EDELIVERY_MESSAGE_ID & BATCH_ID= X_EDELIVERY_BATCH_ID
Here is the sed command i am... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: aakishore
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Everyone,
I need to read an encrypted password from the user and update that value in an xml file. I am trying to use "sed" for searching the appropriate tag and replacing this new value that get from the user. Since the encrypted password can contain special characters(like /,\,&,etc),... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello experts
I am trying to write a shell script which will add ' ' to a unix variable and then pass it to oracle for inserting to a table.
I am running the script as root and I have to do a su -c .
The problem is the character ' is not recognised inside sed even after adding escape... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pvedaa
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a script which uses sed to replace one string with another. The problem is, the string to be matched, and its replacement are coming in as two command line arguments $1 and $2
$1 and $2 can be absolutely anything, but both should be treated purely as strings. My sed command... (7 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
How do i write in sed for the 6th and 7th field of etc/passwd file as it involves "/" character?
Does mine below is correct? It's incomplete script as i need help with syntax as i always getting may errors :(
Example of etc/passwd file:
blah:x:1055:600:blah... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: c00kie88
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
For the following complex code ,
<!-- ... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
is it possible to escape the \ character in sed?
right now I'm trying to replace all occurances of \ with \\
sed \"s|test|test_replacement|g\" file1 > output; #this works fine
sed \"s|\\|\\\|g\" file1 > output; #this generates the following error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 17:... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gammaman
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