Programming :: Sed - Match One Line Make A Substitution A Few Lines Down?
Jun 6, 2011
I need a substitution of a particular string (StringA) with another string (StringB). However, there may be more than one occurrence of StringA within the file, but only one instance needs to be changed, which is why I'm trying to be sure of it's positioning against something I know will be unique in the file, and will always have the same distance from the string to be replaced. So, I intend to match on a string (StringC) above the string to be substituted and then have sed go to StringA below and replace with StringB.
So far, I have had some success with the following:
Code:
... but I can't help thinking that there *has* to be a cleaner way of doing it.
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May 15, 2011
My problem is like this I have to delete all lines between two pattern match example- suppose below is the content of the file then i have to delete all lines between text1 and text2
...
text1
abc
def
ghi
[Code]....
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Mar 17, 2009
I'm trying to find the correct sed syntax to match from a given pattern to the end of the file and then append that pattern to the end of the file.
I was trying:
But that prints each line right after its original occurrence. I want to match the block and then append it to the end of the file.
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Sep 9, 2010
I have a file, and I have to display all the lines from the beginning of the file till a matching string is found.
I know grep with "-a", "-b" as option does exist, but it needs the number of lines to be printed in advance. eg grep -b 10 "search_string" file so it will print 10 lines before a match is found.
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Apr 15, 2011
What is the best way to merge lines, in sed, awk or perl, that occur between certain strings? I'm new to sed scripting and I have been working on this for some time now. I have a large file (sample below) that I need to edit.
What I need looks something like this.
I'm working with a very large file so simply merging all the lines then adding a new line character before ">contig" and after "translated" won't work, at least not with sed.
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May 11, 2011
I'm trying to split a text file into various parts. Everything in between "123" and "break" (including linebreaks) goes into the splitted file.
e.g. using this text file:
This should split into 4 files. However I'm only getting 2 files: one for the line "123break" and one for "123 blah break". The two occurrences that contain linebreaks are being ignored. The .* part of my match should capture linebreaks seeing that I'm using the /s modifier shouldn't it? Even when I use the match /(123 break)/gs it still doesn't capture the first occurrence. I'm using Perl v5.12.3 (from ActiveState) on Windows XP. The text file is also in Windows format.
Code listed below.
The above code generates two files Output_1.txt and Output_2.txt which contain "123break" and "123 blah break" respectively. I want it to generate four files.
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Apr 1, 2009
Was wondering if any perl guru's could help me with a quick log file adjustment. I have a text file that looks like so (tabs and newlines are revealed so you can see what separates the data):
There are maybe 100 lines of text in this file at any given time. I need to delete all duplicate lines only looking at the first bit of text prior to the first tab. It doesn't matter which one gets deleted as long as there are no two lines that begin with that same text at the beginning before the first tab. So in this example, either the fist line "1234" or the last line "1234" would need to be deleted. I already have code in my script that opens the files - I just need the code to read the text into an array and the part that would find matches based on the above criteria, and make the deletions.
If it would be easier, I can even do a system call and use SED (v4.1.5) and/or AWK (3.1.5) instead.
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Dec 25, 2010
i have a file like this
# comments
#comments
#comments
bla bla
[code]....
i want to grep lines which do not start with # or a blank space. like
bla bla
bla bla
how do i do this? i tried grep --invert-match '^#' which gives lines not starting with # but gives me blank lines too i tried grep --invert-match '^#|^ ' which will give lines not starting with # OR not starting with blank ( which means any line including ones starting with #
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Sep 16, 2009
I need to edit the sudo file on lots of machines. I figure the easiest way is to run a for loop to ssh to each box, sed the sudoers file to a new file & copy/move back over the top of the original (and of course, change permissions accordingly)
The problem is, I'm not sure how to add a line after a match with sed.
So if my file looks like:
Code:
I'd like it to add the new sudoer after "other" so the file looks like:
Code:
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Jan 31, 2010
sed move to prev line if match
file:
desired result:
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Nov 5, 2010
Is there any way to add a character to the end of a line when a certain match text is matched. I have a text file where any line that contacts text XYZ a z is placed at the end.
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Dec 14, 2008
I've got a website set up which has a section which is just a bunch of links on the side. But this section of links is on every page of the website. And when I expand and add more links I don't want to have to go to every page and add the new link. Is there a way that I could put all the links into something on CSS (or anything else) that I could just include one line in the HTML? So that when I add a link I'll only have to edit the one file and and then every page will be updated?
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May 15, 2011
I tried, of course:
Code:
awk '/^./ {print}' FILE.TXT
That does not work, I just get an empty output, even if FILE.TXT contains lines which fit the desired regexp I've searched but did not found my way. I'd like to do it with awk, as I want my program to rely only on awk, nothing else such as sed, grep, etc.
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Oct 21, 2010
I have the following query:
Code:
$sql="SELECT table1.datetime, table1.user_id, table2.ip, FROM table1,table2 WHERE id='$id' AND (table1.id = table2.id AND table1.datetime = table2.datetime)";
In table2 the datetime fields are about 1 to 2 seconds off due to the source of the data, which I cannot change.
Is it possible via a query match table1.datetime & table2.datetime by HH:MM (ie. to the minute instead of to the second)?
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Mar 21, 2011
This solution works but is slow with large files. I am looking for a faster solution.
The 2 files contain filenames, one of them has associated data I want to append to the other file's matching filenames
file1:
file2:
I append file2 by matching the unique_filenames and appending them with the tag data and some formatting
appended file2:
Here is the SLOW code
while read inputline.
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Apr 14, 2010
I have to use sed with this problem, and sed is extremely complicated, they could probably teach a whole class on this entire function.
Here's an example to show what I need to do:
Code...
how would I say that every line before I reach the first match of "sweet" should be deleted so that the output will look like: Code...
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Feb 3, 2011
I have done this before but i cant really recall now
I have a text file and i want to grep the word "interface" and 10 lines following it. I think there was some switch like grep -A or something ?
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Mar 14, 2011
I have a file called test. It has the following contents.Code:there youI want the output to be.Code:replaced youI am trying to use the sed command to replace every occurance of "hey newline there" with "replaced". I tried the following naive apporach.Code:sed 's/heythere/replace/' testThis gives a result containing the same data as the test file.
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Aug 31, 2010
I am repeatedly getting error:
I need to pass the value of:
I am using #!/bin/bash
This command works on shell without any issue.
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Jul 2, 2010
i have two files with thousands of line, I am trying to combine these two files but i want to insert each line of one file to the another file after certain lines. I am using awk with the following command but it does not work.cat file1 | awk ' { print $0; if (NR%3004==0) {print "file2"}}' > outputfile
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Sep 1, 2009
I have a dataset (see example below) that I would like to go through and copy all lines containing a certain string ("LGIG") plus the line immediately following that line to a new file. I have no problem grepping lines containing the string LGIG but I'm lost how to translate that to line number and shift up one line number for each instance of that string.
Example input file:
[code].....
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Nov 24, 2009
How do you remove parts of strings using python? Such as, if I have something like:
Code:
erme1 sdifskenklsd
erme2 sdfjksliel
[code]....
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Feb 17, 2011
Just a simple BASH for loop to read the file path from a text file (clean.txt) echo the variable for debug purposes, and scp it to a server I have using port 50 for SSH.
I've already formatted the entries in clean.txt to handle spaces correctly, using sed replacement.
Example from the clean.txt file:
Code:
/MP3/NAS000000001/Barenaked Ladies/Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked For The Holidays/20 Auld Lang Syne.mp3
/MP3/NAS000000001/Barenaked Ladies/Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked For The Holidays/14 Deck the Stills.mp3
[Code]....
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Jul 1, 2010
I have the following test code fragment:
Code:
When I try to run it 'sh' reports the following message^
Code:
You might understand what I mean with that test code so could you recommend how to achieve the required effect?
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Nov 25, 2010
file allids consists of 300,000 rows, each containing a 5-7 digit numeric id. file newids consists of 20,000 rows of id's. How do you explain the following timings? time: 0.07s:
Code:
diff <(sort allids) <(sort newids)
time: 1.6s:
[code].....
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Feb 3, 2011
I'm working on a program that will allow non-privileged users the ability to substitute passwords that are read in from a 600-root:root file.
A user might call it like this:
/bin/securepasswrapper "/path/to/check_ping -u Admin -p ?webserver1?"
The file (defined now as /tmp/securefile) will be searched for the identifier "webserver1", and it's corresponding password will be returned to securepasswrapper. Now, I know you could just call /bin/echo, and get the output, but that's in scope at this point.
File format of securefile is:
<identifierassword>
ex: webserver1:asdf123
Once the password is properly substituted in, securepasswrapper should then execute it as the UID/EUID of the calling user (not root)...that part I've not got to yet.
Code:
/* program: securepasswrapper
author: R.Briggs + Google
date: 02/02/11
purpose: C wrapper that replaces placeholders in a string with secure passwords retrieved from a file
*/ .....
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May 6, 2011
I have an interpteter that supports string literals, and the way it works is that the lexer returns the entire string as a single token, with the quotes removed and escape sequences replaced with the literal characters they represent.
I already implemented single-quote strings, they don't interpret any characters specially except for the single quote. I partially implemented double-quoted strings, they already support all the same backslash escape sequences that C does. But I would also want to add variable substitution.
The way it would work is that "${expression}" would interpret the expression (which could just be a variable name) and replace itself with the result. But I have no idea how to do this.
In case it matters, I'm using a hand-written lexer and recursive-descent parser.
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Jun 19, 2009
I made a little rsync script for log transfer.
Code:
SERVERS=(SERVER1 SERVER2 SERVER3)
SERVER1_SERV=(web ftp mail)
SERVER2_SERV=(web transcoding)
SERVER3_SERV=(web ftp mail)
for SERVER in ${SERVERS[@]}
do
echo "Starting tranfer for server $SERVER"
for SERVICE in ${$SERVER_$SERVICE[@]}
do
something_to_be_done
fi
done
But when I run it I get ${$SERVER_$SERVICE[@]}: bad substitution
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Oct 20, 2010
I am trying to figure something out as part of something else I am going to do. I was just wondering the easiest and quickest way to run a loop at the Linux command line which will make x amount of symbolic links when I need them.
I am using Debian 5.
I figure its something as easy as ~# foreach statement, then I just do a loop with the command to make a sym link.
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Dec 21, 2008
I have a simple script that I am writing to parse an XML file for me, and update some version numbers. Basically what happens in my script is that I'm running a grep command on the file to get the current version number, then I prompt for a new number, and then I want to globally replace that version number in the file. The problem is, the sed command seems to only want literal values (it doesn't appear to be capable of resolving variables). For example, this code doesn't work:
[Code]...
I have tried removing the curly brackets from the variable names, quoting them, etc. and nothing seems to work. Should I do this with awk instead (and if so can you kindly write out the command for me because I never bothered to learn awk).
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