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sed - how to replace a single quote?
This works fine:
sed -i 's# @driver.find_element(:xpath, "//a\[contains(@href,##' temp_spec.rb
against a source of
@driver.find_element(:xpath, "//a[contains(@href,'change_district')]").click
...
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Colorizing tail output with sed
How would I go about colorizing the output of tail with sed?
echo "`tput setaf 1`foo`tput op`" works as expected
echo "foo" | sed -e 's/(foo)/`tput setaf 1`\0`tput op`/g' however, does not.
What am ...
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2answers
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Piping paths with different types of quotes for slash substitution
I would like to use sed to convert a path with backslashes to the same path with forward slashes:
E.g.
I would like to pipe \\path\to\file\ and obtain /path/to/file
None of the following commands ...
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4answers
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Appending a string containing escape character with sed
Currently I use:
sed -i -e "5a\\
${text}" $filename
to append something to a certain line, where the variable text
contains a string such as "\epsilon".
When using
echo -E $text
the string is ...
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3answers
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What characters do I need to escape when using sed in a sh script?
Take the following script:
#!/bin/sh
sed 's/(127\.0\.1\.1)\s/\1/' [some file]
If I try to run this in sh (dash here), it'll fail because of the parentheses, which need to be escaped. But I don't ...
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2answers
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Bash color output fails
Is it sed or echo problem? What I'm doing wrong?
$> cat ~/bin/color_test.sh
#!/bin/bash
ColorOff='\e[0m' # Text Reset
BWhite='\e[1;37m' # Bold White
string="test TEST test"
echo -e ...
