Hello
I've a text file with a line
default_color acolor
and I want to replace this line with
default_color anothercolor
I don't know the first color and the second is contained in a variable.
How can I do it in bash ?
Thank you
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I have a file which contains "title" written in it many times. How can I find the number of times "title" is written in that file using the sed command provided that "title" is the first string in a line? e.g.
# title
title
title
should output the count = 2 because in first line title is not the first string.
Update
I used awk to f...
I'd like to use the search pattern in the output part of a sed command. For instance, given the following sed command:
sed '/HOSTNAME=/cHOSTNAME=fred' /etc/sysconfig/network
I'd like to replace the second instance of "HOSTNAME=" with some escape sequence that references the search term. Something like this:
# this doesn't actually ...
Hello, I need to find and replace the value of the specific xml element. The conditions are as follows:
the value of element enabled must be changed from 0 to 1;
enabled must be the child of an somenode element
My test xml looks like this:
<somenode name="node1">
<some></some>
<enabled>0</enabled>
<some></some>
</somenod...
Fairly certain am missing something obvious!
$ cat test.txt
00 30 * * * /opt/timebomb.sh >> timebomb.log
01 30 * * * /opt/reincarnate.sh >> reincarnation.log
$ sed ':timebomb:d' test.txt
00 30 * * * /opt/timebomb.sh >> timebomb.log
01 30 * * * /opt/reincarnate.sh >> reincarnation.log
whereas
$ sed '/timebomb/d' test.txt
01 ...
I need a way to simplify this command:
grep 'SEARCHTERM' server.log | grep -v 'PHHIABFFH' | grep -v 'Stats'
It should find all the lines including SEARCHTERM but exclude if one of the SEARCHTERM lines includes PHHIABFFH or Stats.
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I have a text file which contains:
Cycle code
Cycle month
Cycle year
Event type ID
Event ID
Network start time
I want to change this text so that when ever there is a space, I want to replace it with a _. And after that, I want the characters to lower case letter like below:
cycle_code
cycle_month
cycle_year
event_type_id
event_id
ne...
I'm trying to run the following command in Windows Server 2003 but sed creates a pile of files that I can't delete from the command line inside the current directory.
for /R %f in (*.*) do "C:\Program Files\gnuwin32\bin\sed.exe" -i "s/bad/good/g" "%f"
Does anyone have any suggestions? Mysteriously enough, I'm able to delete the files u...
How can I comment out lines from a certain pattern and N lines onwards?
int var1;
int var2;
int var3;
int var4;
int var5;
I want to comment out 3 lines including var2 (and not according to their content!):
int var1;
// int var2;
// int var3;
// int var4;
int var5;
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I have inherited this sed script snippet that attempts to remove certain empty spaces:
s/[\s\t]*|/|/g
s/|[\s\t]*/|/g
s/[\s] *$//g
s/^|/null|/g
that operates on a file that is around 1Gb large. This script runs for 2 hours on our unix server. Any ideas how to speed it up?
Notes that the \s stands for a space and \t stands for a tab, ...
Can anyone help me in deleting brackets in a file ?
here is my script ..
#!/bin/bash
for file in fftw is_c mpi_tile pmb tau xhpl
do
for state in C0 C1 C2 C4
do
printf "${file}_${state}_v1.xls"
sed -e 's/\(//' ${file}_${state}_v1.xls
sed -e 's/\)//' ${file}_${state}_v1.xls
awk '{sum+=$3} ; END {print " ", su...
I am trying to vocab list for a greek text we are translating in class, I want to be able to replace every space or tab character with a paragraph mark, so that every word appears on it's own line. Can anyone give me the sed command, and explain what it is that I'm doing? I'm still trying to figure sed out.
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I am looking for a shell script which scans a direcotry and all its subdirectories for .php and .phtml files. Within these files, I am looking for $this->translate('') statements (also $this->view->translate('')) and I want to save the content of these statements in a textfile.
The problem is, that there are several different types of t...
Trying to make a makefile rule to check that svnversion gave a proper result.
Normally, it should return something like one of the following:
1023:1055M
1056
However, it can get an error like:
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client
So here is my version of the rule based on ...
I want to extract the URL from within the anchor tags of an html file.
This needs to be done in BASH using SED/AWK. No perl please.
What is the easiest way to do this?
Thanks a lot.
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Hi Folks
I have inherited a flat html file with a few hundred lines similar to this:
<blink>
<td class="pagetxt bordercolor="#666666 width="203 colspan="3 height="20>
</blink>
So far I have not been able to work out a sed way of inserting the closing double quotes for each element. Probably needs something other than sed to do this. C...
I just want to match some text in a BASH script, i’v tried using sed, but I can’t seem to make it just output the match instead of replacing it with something.
echo -E "TestT100String" | sed 's/[0-9]+/dontReplace/g'
Which will output: TestTdontReplaceString
Which isn’t what I want, I want it to output: 100
Ideally I would want it to...
Hi,
I need to replace the serials in my zone files, and I thought the easiest would be to use sed to change this. I have the following line to test.
@ IN SOA ns1.domain.com. webdev.domain.com. (
2006080401 ; serial
8H ; refresh
2H ; retry
1W ; expire
4h) ; minimum ttl
NS ns1.domain.com.
NS ns...
I would like to write a small script using the standard linux shell scripting tools (sed, awk, etc.) to create one output file per line of input. For example, given the following input file 'input':
line1
line2
line3
I would like to run the command.
$ cat input | my_prog
Where 'my_prog' is a script that creates three output files, ...
My shell has a call to 'fortune' in my .login file, to provide me with a little message of the day. However, some of the fortunes begin with one leading whitespace line, some begin with two, and some don't have any leading whitespace lines at all. This bugs me.
I sat down to wrapper fortune with my own shell script, which would remove a...