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Old 09-28-2015
Search for a string,delete the line and replace with new string in a file
Hi Everyone,

I have a requirement in ksh where i have a set of files in a directory. I need to search each and every file if a particular string is present in the file, delete that line and replace that line with another string expression in the same file.

I am very new to unix. Kindly help me to achieve this.
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Old 09-28-2015
Hi Pradhikshan

Any attempts from your side yet?
If not, to get you started, start playing around with these: (please do required changes yourself, eg: Desktop)

I'm not familiar with ksh, but these bash basics should work fine:
Code:
cd Desktop
ls
echo *
for this_file in *
do
	echo "$this_file"
	echo "more commands of yours"
	ls -l "$this_file"
done

SEARCH="this pattern"
grep --color=auto "$SEARCH" *
echo "$SEARCH" | sed s,"$SEARCH","new stuff",

If the following output pleases you, prefix '*' with -i
Code:
sed s,"$SEARCH","new stuff", *

Hope this helps
Last edited by sea; 09-28-2015 at 11:52 AM.. Reason: changed code
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Pradhikshan
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Old 09-28-2015
Thanks for your reply but i would like to delete the line that has the matching string and then replace the line with new string.
# 4  
Old 09-28-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by sea
Hi Pradhikshan

Any attempts from your side yet?
<...>
Thank you
# 5  
Old 09-28-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pradhikshan
Thanks for your reply but i would like to delete the line that has the matching string and then replace the line with new string.
Hello Pradhikshan,

Following may help you in same, here I have taken an example of *.txt files, you can make it as per your requirement.
Code:
for i in *.txt; 
do 
   sed -i 's/^test test test$/"My new line here R. Singh"/g' $i; 
done

Line sed -i 's/^test test test$/"My new line here R. Singh"/g' $i; can be explained as sed -i 's/^Your required line to be changed$/"Your new line"/g' $i; Hope this helps you, let us know if you have any queries on same.

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 09-28-2015 at 12:05 PM.. Reason: Added a comment about command explaination
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# 6  
Old 09-28-2015
Hi Ravinder, thanks for ur reply. Is there any other way to achieve this without -i as sed with -i was not working in my machine.
# 7  
Old 09-28-2015
Hello Pradhikshan,

Following may help you in same then.
Code:
for i in *.txt; 
do 
   sed 's/^test test test$/"My new line here R. Singh"/g' $i > $i"_tmp"
   mv $i"_tmp" $i 
done

Thanks,
R. Singh
 
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