I'm struggling with the Vim find/replace command using wildcards.
I have several, big html files with lots of instances of: <p stuffiwanttoremove>
I've been trying the Vim command: %s/<p *>/<p>/ge
but it doesn't seem to work.
Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
I realise there may be alternatives to this (eg a bash script)
I am cleaning up some text files to put on a website and am using the find/replace feature of Gedit extensively. The only problem I am having is that I can't find a way to use wildcards. For instance, I want to use the "?" and "*" in the same or similar way you do in bash. I already know that:
Represents a carriage return, and that is great, but I want to do something like: "?." to replace "A.", "B.", "1.", "2." with just plain spaces. The document in question is written in narrative, but has a bunch of outline markers in it, and I want to remove the outline markers.
I tried "escaping" the characters in a similar way as by using "?.", but that didn't work. Google was not very fruitful, and the Gedit help seems to be Gnome help and includes all kinds of useless info (for my problem) about wildcards in other programs.
Is there any command in Linux which will find a particular word in all the files in a given directory and the folders below and replace it with a new word?
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I am trying following script can I do this or is there a way to do find and replace the replacing word is dynamic input by user
echo -n "Enter name:"
read RP_USER
sed 's/text1/$RP_USER/' /home/user/file1 > /home/user/file2
I'm pretty sure this is doable from the command line, but my CLI skills have degraded a lot since my pre-Y2K admin days. The goal is to search all the files in the directory for a very long string of text and replace it with another string of text. The text being searched for is my Google Adsense code (which will be stripped from my website) and it will be replaced with a placeholder so I can easily tack something else in there in the future.
Seeing how I have that long snip of code on about 100 pages, automating the process would make life easier.
If I was searching for a single word, I can see ways to do this.
If I paste the code I'm searching for into a text file, is there a way to:
find (contents of oldstring.txt) and replace with (contents of newstring.txt)?
I wanted to find and replace a string from a perl file. I have written a script in bash which runs the following command.
perl -pi -e "s/$findstring/$replacestring/" testfile
where as $findstring = print F_WC_TMP"$line
";
and $replaceString = $line = join ' ', split ' ', $line; print F_WC_TMP"$line
";
But when I am running the above command, i think it is replacing the $findstring with the above mentioned string and hence it contains a $line, it is looking for the variable $line and not finding the exact string. I am confused about how to search for a string that contains $ in it and replace it with another $string.
I found this command that works great finding and replacing a simple string to another in files located in that folder and all sub-folders.
Code: find . -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/OldText/NewText/g'
The problem I have is that I need to replace a more complex string, like this: Old string: /mnt/stor6-wc2-dfw1/627896/982574/ New string: /mnt/stor8-wc2-dfw1/369587/302589/ There I don't know how to do it... since the / is what separates the old from the new strings, and the strings that I want to replace have / in it. Also, I would like to know how to specify under what folder replace the files, for example, I want that it search/replaces all files under /var/www/mysite/htdocs folder.
I want to write a small script to rename a bunch of files. Their name is of the form 'long number'|'name'|'extension', for example:
52354Football_part2.flv
2353452Nice_weather_4_ducks.flv
I would like to rename these to:
Football_part2.flv
Nice_weather_4_ducks.flv
If in my script I use something like
Code:
sed s/[0-9]//g
on each file, I will get
Football_part.flv, instead of Football_part2.flv,
and
Nice_weather__ducks.flv, instead of Nice_weather_4_ducks.flv.
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I am working on writing a script for find and replace a string using sed.But know I want to write without using sed.
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toolbox/perl/man/man3/ExtUtils::Command::MM.3
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I'm in the middle of a data migration project and I have a text file where the data in one of the fields contains a "" at the end of each line. I know how to do a find and replace on ALL backslashes using something like this:
Code:
:%s/\//g
The above example would replace all backslashes with nothing, effectively "removing" them. Does anyone know how I can apply a similar function that only removes the backslashes that exist at the end of a line?
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What we experience is that if the application crashes unexpectedly while it is doing its user profile refresh task we end up with sometimes a few hundred Profile.xml files which end up 0kb(should be around 4kb) , and our server see's these as corrupted profiles and will not see them. Our fix is to go back thru and rename the Profile.xml.1 to be Profile.xml (or sometimes up to Profile.xml.5 to Profile.xml) We want a script we can manually run to automate this process The server tree is
/mnt/array1/username/db/Profile.xml
/mnt/array2/username/db/Profile.xml
etc
etc
What we have so far is a script which finds the affected files
find /mnt/ -maxdepth 4 -name Profile.xml -size -1k
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Basically what I want to replace is;
/awstats/
with
awstats/
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How can I get an exact match with either sed/awk/grep in shell so I can do a find and replace?
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I have a file with the following in it:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nobanner
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
I need to add "-nolisten tcp" to both of these lines and cannot figure out how to do it. I can get it to do the first one, but not the 2nd and so on. How do I search the file and loop though it to change them all?
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lots of text
...
useHeloBlacklist:=1
DoIPinHelo:=3
...
lots of text
I'm try the use wildcards for file searches in Nautilus (ctrl+s) but using sets and character classes doesn't return any results. For example
[[:upper:]]*
[![:digit]]*
*[[:alpha:]]
[crm]*
Is this kind of notation supported in Ubuntu or do I have something wrong in my syntax.
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Example:
input file: file1
g+h=o+p
a+b=c+d
file2 (file that need to look for)
a+b=c+d1e105
x+y=z+s5e105
g+h=o+pabcdefg
t+r=w+qxvyderf
Output file (file3 should look like this)
!a+b=c+d1e105
x+y=z+s5e105
!g+h=o+pabcdefg
t+r=w+qxvyderf
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Code:
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Code:
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I try to make an animation so you can see what I mean, here the word "pig" gets replaced with "sheep":
>I|
>I |
>I l|
>I li|
>I lik|
>I like|
>I like |
>I like t|
>I like to|
>I like to |
>I like to e|
>I like to ea|
>I like to eat|
>I like to eat |
>I like to eat p|
>I like to eat pi|
>I like to eat pig|
>I like to eat sheep|
Note, the user never typed "sheep", the program replaced "pig" with "sheep" as soon as they finished typing the word "pig". The user did not use "Enter". Is this at all possible in Python?
I have a tab delimited file. I need to replace the 7th tab with a new line.
I tried the following command (but it does not work):
The above simply spits out the original file.
If I write the next command, it replaces the first tab in each line with a newline. How can I make it replace the 7th tab in each line?
What I have works, but wondering what is the 'right' way to replace the digits with the letters given in this loop? somehow use a case or multiple sed? i thought of a multiple sed or a case but couldn't get it to work
Code:
# ...
bcv=$(echo $line | awk -F" " '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/1/q/g;s/2/w/g;s/3/e/g') # and so on
Code:
while read line
do
bcv=$(echo $line | awk -F" " '{ print $1 }')
if [ $bcv == "" ]
[code].....