this seems like it should be a simple thing, but I can't find it. Is there a bash shell command that allows you to create a string of repeated characters? Like a string of 100 '*'?
View 6 Repliesfor example
010100
this is the string
the substring is 010
i need to search for this substring and i also need to return the next 3 characters i.e 100.
i need to apply this for this string
01010000001001100000100010
I am having difficulty getting sed to replace a string of text in an XML file, despite the fact that I have no trouble using grep to find that same string. Since the new string and old string to be replaced contain a lot of special characters, I thought it best to store them in variables as opposed to using a slew of backslashes:
OLD_STRING='<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>'
NEW_STRING='<!--<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>-->'
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Below is extract of my file:
What I need is to replace "--destination-path=" with "--destination-path=/home/dest"
i.e. desired output is ----destination-path=/home/dest
I could achieve it with below command
$cat outgoing-xfer|grep destination-path|perl -pi -e "s/destination-path=/destination-path=/home/dest/g"
But the problem is that in this case i just wanted to append "/home/dest" for which I could easily escape "/" with just two "", but I wonder if i have a long path like "/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j" I will have to escape so many /. Is there any other way by which I can avoid escaping forward slash.
I tried following:
But receiving follo error
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home"
Bad name after dest' at -e line 1. tried with enclosing in double quotes as well but in vain
How to grep a string like "ab?c12345678" where 3rd character is unknown, while other characters are known.
View 2 Replies View Relatedsplitting a string by every nth characters. I'm using Python 2.7.1 because I'm using older libraries, if that matters.
For example, if this is my input:
Quote:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed ac elit nibh, vitae venenatis ligula. Vestibulum a varius turpis.
Splitting it by every 10th character should produce this list:
Quote:
[ "Lorem ipsu", "m dolor si", "t amet, co", "nsectetur ", "adipiscing", " elit. Sed", " ac elit n", "ibh, vitae", " venenatis", " ligula. V", "estibulum ", "a varius t", "urpis." ]
My problem is to insert one sign like space or ':' into a line or string.The goal is to get a demiliter for `cut`.I tried to do it with `tr A-Z "'A '-'Z '" and such but without success.I guess a while read loop could do it but I don't know howto use it with ` expr length $STR`
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I am working with a Tcl script and have some strings in the following format (RE):
[a-zA-Z]+[0-9]{6}-[0-9]
There are some leading letters, combinations of capital and lowercase. Then six digits, followed by a hyphen, then one more digit. I would like to remove all of the leading alphabetic characters from the string. The resulting string would then be in this format: [0-9]{6}-[0-9]. In other words, six numeric digits, a hyphen, then one more digit.
I have tried:
Code:
set newstr [string trimleft $origstr alpha]
But that only removes the first alphabetic character, not all of them.
I couldn't get anything with regsub to work correctly, but I am somewhat of a noob with RE's in general and regsub in particular. There are usually 5 leading letters at the beginning of these strings, and I could in most cases get away with using string replace and constant indices to extract the substring. However, my preference is for this to be robust enough to handle all cases with 1 through n leading alphabetic characters.
I have a file with a number of strings like the ones below
string1#m1asdfe23easdf23wefas
string2#mfaaeb2vr1rhserh
anotherstring#ji89ensrsegr
anotherone#m1ynmdt324nsdt
I'm trying to delete everything after #** so that
string1#maasdfeaveasdfawefas
string2#mfaaebvrserhserh
becomes
string1#ma
string2#mf
tried sed 's/#..*//g' but as you all will know it returns string1, string2 etc.
What I am doing is reading the text from a text document and storing all of the text inside of a ArrayList. I then set one of the values of the Arraylist as a string. I want to use regular expressions find out what the first two characters of the String are. if first two characters = "//" then function(); I only care about the first two characters though. If you need any more information, just ask.
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Code:
But this doesnt seem to give me the desired thing:
Code:
This gives the desired outcome, but its specific, i need a variable in the sed not a string. And if I replace STRING="/mnt/sda1/record/$dd/" then I cant use it for something else, cause its has all the weird backslashes now.
I have an output file that looks like this:
Quote:
Now if you see the first line:
Status for ACCOUNT_MISSING_FRM_RCIS_LINK- mismatch
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This should appear just once as :
Quote:
The same goes for last line.
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I am getting the desird output just that i need to do something to this output file.
I have a mvfs file system mounted.
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i have a file name using the following pattern:
PREFIX: AR
SOURCE: LEGACY
DATETIME: YYYYMMDD_HH24MISS
SUFFIX: .txt
sample filename:AR_LEGACY_20101104_105500.txti want to extract the source which is LEGACY in this case. how do i do this using shell?
I just installed Debian onto a PowerPC G4 Tower with two hard drives. I left OS X on one of the drives and reformatted and installed Debian on the other, using the installer from the 60Mb ISO from the Debian website.
The installation had no issues and it starts yaboot and Debian no problem.
After about 2 minutes of the booting up process, it starts to output this, every five seconds:
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I have not been able to completely log in yet.
I can start up into the shell as root with "Linux single" with no problems.
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FIX <- Mon 3/1/2010 08:35:08
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anyhow - i append two sed commands to further clarify the direction of the message.
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FIX <- OUT Mon 3/1/2010 08:32:36
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I tried using an awk gsub () command within the string instead of the two seds, but it did not work:
awk '{ print gsub(/<regex>/, <replace with>,$1), $2, $3, $4, substr($5,1,8}
the sed works ok, but it would be cooler to make the replacement within the awk command:
gsub(/->/,-> IN, $1)
Is there a way where i could replace the value of the $1 column in the awk print string?
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