Here's the actual line of code, which exists in a bash script:
Code:
I want to replace instances like this:
Code:
with this:
Code:
Using this:
Code:
Which works great when there's only ONE of the pattern on the line. But in a case like the "actual line" I posted first, where there are two patterns, separated by a slash, only ONE gets replaced
Watch:
Code:
Why? There must be (among many other things) something I'm not knowing about sed, that's causing this.
-- I'm currently using the ~ (tilde) as the separator in the sed command. It doesn't matter, I've used / ~ and % with no difference.
-- As a test, I tried putting a different character(s) in the middle of the original pattern instead of the / but that made no difference.
-- I've come up with various similar but slightly different regexs that will do this replacement, but they all have had this same result.
-- I tried the sed single-quoted, double-quoted, and unquoted; the latter fails to execute, and the formers both work as described here: wrong.
I'm trying to process a postscript file and I want to change alternate pages by finding the string '%%EndPageSetup' (and then adding a line after it).
I've tried using sed with labels and a branching program to ignore the odd occurrences and process the even ones. In the code below I tried searching for the first and ignoring it by jumping to next and processing it and then to the next odd page and so on.
My logic is obviously flawed here as it doesn't work but I've tried the following:
Code: #!/bin/bash sed -e '/%%EndPageSetup/{ b even :odd /%%EndPageSetup/ b even :even s/%%EndPageSetup/%%EndPageSetup++/ b odd}' filename.ps > newfile.ps
Want to search for ~ and delete it as well as to append the entire line to the above line. For Ex:
1111xxxx date Sandy area is ~around this area.3222xxx date There seems to ~left side of map, the colours are accurate (showing green areas)Even if I ~zoom in, the green parks, xxx3258 date The dammed up ~away, the "other" body of water varies ~blackNatural gas leaching.
IT MUST LOOK LIKE:
1111xxxx date Sandy area is around this area. 3222xxx date There seems to left side of map, the colours are accurate (showing green areas)Even if I zoom in, the green parks, xxx3258 date The dammed up away, the "other" body of water varies blackNatural gas leaching.
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I was looking for something like
Code:
exit 0 The input would be A-Z a-z 0-9 and have a single space between each word.
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