General :: Get The Shortest String In A Text File With Shell?
Apr 29, 2010Assume I have a text file as belowabcdaaaaaaagfgkhahahahahahhahhgfThen gf would be returned
View 4 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Software :: Replace A Text String In A File With A Random String - With Sed ?
Sep 2, 2010I have a line in a text file that has 40 random characters within a tag and i want to change the characters to a new set of 40 random characters (alphanumeric a-z 0-9 etc)
The line in the text file looks like this:
Quote:
How would i go about doing that?
Also second question same as the above but how would i remove them instead of replacing them?
Fedora :: Replace A String By A String In Text File?
Apr 26, 2011If I have a word in a text file and I need to replace it by another word (for example, i need to replace abc by fff) so what is the command I can type it?
I am using vi editor.
General :: Find Text After String Search In File
Aug 2, 2011I have a file called Regions.ini that looks like this:
Code:
[Granite]
RegionUUID = 54ab7cd2-0e70-49b7-8020-8dbeb84c08d0
Location = 9991,10007
InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0
InternalPort = 9001
AllowAlternatePorts = False
ExternalHostName = 71.171.21.9
[Syenite]
RegionUUID = 8fc56fdd-0afd-4074-9432-0ae8f42b799f
Location = 9992,10007
InternalAddress = 0.0.0.0
InternalPort = 9000
AllowAlternatePorts = False
ExternalHostName = 71.171.21.9
What I need to do is find out what the IP address is after "ExternalHostName ="
After that I will need to compare that IP to whatismyip and if it's different then replace it but that is easy to do with sed. I just can't figure this simple hurdle out.
General :: Replace Nth Occurence Of String In Each Line Of A Text File?
May 20, 2010I have large text files with space delimited strings (2-5). The strings can contain "'" or "-". I'd like to replace say the second space with a pipe. What's the best way to go?
Using sed I was thinking of this:
sed -r 's/(^[a-z'-]+ [a-z'-]+) /1|/' filename.txt
General :: Use The Diff Command To Get The Difference Between A String Of Text And The Contents Of A File?
Mar 31, 2010I am not especially cli adept so could someone tell me the best way to use the diff command to get the difference between a string of text and the contents of a file instead of between the contents of two files?
View 3 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Sed/awk/grep Search For Number String Of Variable Length In Text File?
Jan 19, 2010I need to search a text file for a string of numbers which are different lengths, and always are between number=" and " like:
number="1234567890"
number="22390"
I need to grab those numbers and pipe each one to a line in a file. I've already tried something with awk and that didn't seem to work.
General :: Shell Scripting Text File Creation ?
Feb 16, 2011I'm just starting out with shell-scripting, but having a problem with making new text files with the touch or cat > commands.
What I've been doing is touch testfile1.txt
Also, I've tried cat > testfile1.txt (text)
Console reports "bash: text1.txt: No such file or directory. Consfusingly, it works fine in the home-directory. But if I move the file to where I want it, I can no longer view, edit, etc. it.
Programming :: Delete Line Of Text From Text File Via Shell?
Jan 13, 2010I have to delete a certain line of text from the a textfile via ubuntu's shell scripting.I have done research, and it seems that most people advocate the usage of sed /d option. sed makes does not edit the text file. Hence, most options I discovered involved the use of a temporary variable/textfile and then overwriting the old file with the temporary new file. Is there anyway whereby I can bypass the use of temporary storage containers? I hope there is any magical combination of commands to edit the file directly.
View 3 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Shell Scripting: Inserting Text Into A File Name With A Predictable Pattern
Apr 18, 2011Just using shell scripting, how can I insert text into the middle of a file name. The file has a predictable pattern, let's say 3 letters and 3 numbers and I want to insert text in the middle of those 2 patterns. Say ABC123 is the file name. As a result, the file name should be ABC.blah.123
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Write Expdp Output In A Text File Using A Shell Script ?
Feb 7, 2011I want to write expdp output in a text file using a shell script
If i write like below:
It will write whatever is there in log file to text file
But, sometimes export fails with out start taking export (without generating log file) because of job already exists error. such times, we dont know about that error until we check manually... so i wrote like below:
But still it is not writing anything in to text file using above stmt...
General :: Shell Script To Search One File For Contents Of Another And Replace Text?
Feb 3, 2011Suppose I have a pair of files containing lists. The first file is called contigs.txt and it contains a list that looks like this:
Code:
Contig822
Contig826
[code]...
Software :: Check The Contents Of A Text File For A Specific String And Remove It From The File From The Command Prompt?
Oct 14, 2010I want to be able to check the contents of a text file for a specific string and remove it from the file from the command prompt. I would basically be searching through a number of files and if a specific string is found I would like it removed automatically. pretty much a find and replace, were the replace is nothing. any one got any ideas on how you would do this. I already have the search part sorted just need to be able to remove the string I don't want from the multiple files.
View 4 Replies View RelatedServer :: Remove String In Text File?
Jun 5, 2009I have a text file which include code...
I mean, this string should be removed from each line and save in another file.
Programming :: Copying A String From One File To Another In Shell Script?
Nov 10, 2010Code:
function forcd
{
[code]...
Programming :: Find String In Text File And Add Something To That Line
May 26, 2011I want to know how can I add something to a specific line.. the output would be something like:
abc
def 123
ghi
Search for string "def" and add something to that line.
Programming :: String Format - Create A Text File ?
Feb 3, 2010I am using C. I have a fuction that returns a string
Code:
I need to format this string so that I can create a text file like so:
So I'm trying:
Code:
But I get errors like:
Programming :: String Search In Text File Using Visual C++
Jan 25, 2010im tryin to make a tool in visual C++ which will take an input string through a text box,then it will compare tht string with a text file containing data and display the matched results in list box.
View 2 Replies View RelatedDebian Programming :: Script To Execute String From Text File
Sep 24, 2014I am having trouble writing a script that monitors a text file. When the file contains number 1 (or any other string that is not a command) it does nothing, but when it is something different from 1, it executes that command.
So, there are 2 files: monitor.mon - this is the file that will be checked constanlty; and test.sh - the script that does the job. The monitor.mon file will have its content modified by php. This means a web page will have a form where I input commands and writes does commands in the file. Test.sh will watch when the file's content changes from character 1 to a command, execute that command and write back a 1 so it will not execute it more times.
I tried combining while and if but with no success. Tried reading the file with cat and grep -e but it doesn't seem to recognize when content changes.
Programming :: Find String In Text File (bash Script)
Apr 17, 2011write such script (bash script). I have some text file with name filename.txt I must check if this file contains string "test-string-first", I must cut from this file string which follows string "keyword-string:" and till first white-space and save it to some variable.
For example. File: PHP Code: PHP Code:
Start 15022011 Eng 12-3-42
SN1232324422 11 test-string-first
SN322211 securities
HH keyword-string:123456321-net mark (11-22)
[Code].....
Ubuntu :: Easiest Way To Search For String In Text File In GNOME Or On Console?
Jan 3, 2011What's the easiest way to search for a string in a text file in GNOME or on the console? I used to do this in kfindfile back on KDE.I'd like to avoid downloading something like desktop search if at all possible because I'm away for the holidays and stuck on a dialup connection.
View 5 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: Text File Replace Occurrences Of Three Character String ZZZ With Quotation Mark
Mar 30, 2010I want to use SED to do the following: In a text file replace any occurrences of the three character string ZZZ with a quotation mark "and. replace all occurrences of a comma with a semi-colon. It is the S/ / / command which is stumping me on the first issue...inparticular how to get the replace string to be quote.
View 9 Replies View RelatedProgramming :: Reading In A Outside Text File And Putting In The String On That Line Into A Char Array That Is Already Allocated?
Mar 29, 2011Here is the issue. I am reading in a outside text file and putting in the string on that line into a char array that is already allocated.
Code:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
[code]....
General :: Get Output Of Text File Containing Account Number, Debit Amount, Credit Amount,date Using Shell Script?
Apr 9, 2011How to get output of text file containing account number, debit amount, credit amount,date using shell script?
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: String Of Text Conversion?
Sep 24, 2009I'm writing a centralized logging piece, and I need to grep out logs that have specific date tags. The date command returns abbreviated months (Sep), via "#date -d yesterday '+%b'" but I need it all caps. ie SEP vice Sep. Otherwise the grep doesn't catch it
View 3 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Using Sed And Grep With A Text String?
Apr 28, 2011Q: Is there any way to use grep and sed with a string variable rather than with a file?
The problem: Im running through a LARGE (about 10,000 lines) xhtml file and need to replace every instance of lines beginning <p>~
The following code works but takes a long time mainlly because an in/out operation needs to be carried out on each line. If I could read from a string rather than a file it would take a much shorter time!
Code:
#!/bin/bash
count=$((0))
>tpf
echo "waiting....."
[Code].....
General :: Substring Of String In Tag + Shell Script?
Feb 4, 2010I have a string variable
var1=<default>111</default>
I want the value between default tags 111 in this case.
I treid to use ${var1:10:3}
But the execution gived "bad substitution' error. If the tags are removed and substring is fetched it works fine. Is there any other was to get substring in a string with tags.
General :: Searching For Text String In All Files?
Mar 3, 2011Is it possible to search ALL files on a system for a specific text string? I've been messing around with grep without any luck.
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Randomize The Comma Separated String In Shell?
Oct 10, 2010I wanted to randomize the comma separated string.String like "test1,test34,test5,test6".And it would be displayed differently when I ran each time.
Expected output like "test5,test6,test1,test34".
General :: Evaluation Of Postfix String Using Bash Shell
Mar 15, 2011I would like to evaluate a postfix string using bash shell script,but I do not know how to start.
View 1 Replies View Related