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sed how to substitute when string has “http://” in it?
I have a file xx that has the following contents:
@base_url = "http://dmstaffing-stage.herokuapp.com/"
I want to use sed to eliminate this line (replace with nothing). I have used this sed ...
2
votes
3answers
77 views
Use sed to find whole word and replace
I have the following block of text in a file:
test3.legacy test4.legacy test3 test3.kami
I only want to search for test3 as a whole and replace it with nothing. Unfortunately, all my attempts have ...
2
votes
2answers
286 views
How can I replace text after a specific word using sed?
I have a file named .ignore. In need to replace the projdir. For example:
ignore \..*
ignore README
projdir Snake
I need to replace Snake with, for example, "PacMan". I read the man page, but I ...
4
votes
2answers
167 views
Why does this add spaces? echo “x ax” | sed 's/x\s*/x /'
I want to find a x, and replace the 0 or more following spaces (\s*) with just a single space.
echo "x ax" | sed 's/x\s*/x /'
For some reason, instead of replacing the spaces with the single space, ...
3
votes
2answers
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How to convert *text* to {\i text} with sed?
I would like to replace every occurrence of *text* into {\i text}.
text *text* text
*text* text *text*
*text text text* text
should become
text {\i text} text
{\i text} text {\i text}
{\i text ...
1
vote
5answers
208 views
Replacing lines in files with file contents
I have several files which contain some PHP includes and I want to substitute them with the file contents. The file looks like
foo
<?php
include("file1.php");
?>
bar
baz
<?php
...
6
votes
4answers
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Remove line containing certain string and the following line
I use this
cat foo.txt | sed '/bar/d'
to remove lines containing the string 'bar' in the file.
I would like however to remove those lines and the line directly after it. Preferably in sed, awk or ...
1
vote
4answers
336 views
Replace text between brackets
I'm using awk '{ gsub(/BAR|WIBBLE/, "FOO"); print }' to replace text in data like:
SOMETHING [BAR, WIBBLE]
SOMETHING [BAR]
This gives the desired result of:
SOMETHING [FOO, FOO]
SOMETHING [FOO]
...
2
votes
3answers
3k views
Sed : Replace pattern on every second occurence?
Is there a way to tell sed to replace the pattern on every second occurrence? Or at least on every second line? (Sure it's possible with a script, but I was asking myself if sed can do it to).
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2
votes
2answers
249 views
remove only specific text occurrences from string using sed
I have a text file that contains many rows of this sort of thing:
/*[17:51:27][1 ms]*/ UPDATE `country` SET `region_id` = '4' WHERE `country_id` = '36';
Is there a way that I can use sed to remove ...
2
votes
1answer
188 views
Duplicate selected words with sed and replace it
I have to modify a document containing xml data; one modification I couldn't set up with sed.
I have to modify the following expressions from:
<Bild ...
1
vote
2answers
181 views
How to split vCards lines
Related to How to join vCards lines, vCard does a weird kind of line splitting: If a line contains more than 75 characters, insert a "CR, LF, space" sequence. Thus the following line:
...
2
votes
1answer
184 views
Replace “<?php print t('Blabla'); ?>” to be “Blabla”
Lets say in file.php, there is lots of php print text: <?php print t('Blabla'); ?>, <?php print t('Text Here'); ?>, etc.
What I need is to remove <?php print t(' and '); ?> of the ...
2
votes
2answers
525 views
regex replace text in xml file within node from the command line
I have an XML file and I would like to replace everything that is between the open and closing tag within multiple instances of the g:gtin node with nothing.
Is this possible from the command line, ...
3
votes
4answers
364 views
Replace whole line in a file from command-line
I have a text file which has some contents similar to this:
# General information about the project.
project = u'Py6S'
copyright = u'2012, Robin Wilson'
# The version info for the project you're ...
2
votes
4answers
1k views
Using sed to convert newlines into spaces
Say I have a shell variable $string that holds some text with several newlines, e.g.:
string="this
is
a test"
I would like to convert this string into a new string new_string where all line breaks ...
2
votes
1answer
339 views
Replace complex string in several files
A hacker got into a web server and added this string (removed some characters for security purposes and added line breaks for readability) in all index.php files:
<?php
...
7
votes
2answers
3k views
Replace string with contents of a file using sed
I have two different files:
File1
/home/user1/
/home/user2/bin
/home/user1/a/b/c
File2
<TEXT1>
<TEXT2>
I want to replace the <TEXT1> of File2 with the contents of File1 ...
