Programming :: Text File Replace Occurrences Of Three Character String ZZZ With Quotation Mark

Mar 30, 2010

I 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.

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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?

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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
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:odd
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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.

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-- I've come up with various similar but slightly different regexs that will do this replacement, but they all have had this same result.

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For example, here is a file:

Code:
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Jack
Ron
Jack
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Code:

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Code:

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[code]....

I want to be able to find the lines that matches my input and change the N to a Y, but only for the lines that matches the name and not any other N's My problem is the line does not always contain a P as it can be a D as well so my matching did not work. If my script issues the name $1=triva the lines will change to:

Code:

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trivia:D:Y

I have the following code so far but as you can see it does not change the D's

Code:

sed -i 's/trivia:P:Y/trivia:P:N/g' servers.txt

*** UPDATE ***

should I be using a method as follows? I am still stuck on the changing all instances though.

Code:

$1=server
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I wanted to find and replace a string from a perl file. I have written a script in bash which runs the following command.

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";
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Code:
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