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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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How to share a GNU sed script between Linux and Mac OS X

I have a GNU sed script I use on Linux; it is installed at /bin/sed and it seems it contains GNUisms. I have collaborators using Mac OS X. They have installed (non-GNU) sed, located at /usr/bin/sed, ...
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How to remove multiple blank lines from a file?

I have some text-files I use to take notes in - just plain text, usually just using cat >> file. Occasionally I use a blank line or two (just return - the new-line character) to specify a new ...
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How to edit files in-place while performing operation on the values matching the searched pattern?

Given a list files containing random text and many datetimes in ISO format in it (e.g "2012-07-02T10:47:24+02:00"), how can I find all these datetimes and add 2 hours to each one ? Ideally a solution ...
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How can I find matches with sed (or similar) for configuration parameters?

I'm pretty good at using php's preg_match (and similar) commands, and I'm also pretty good with regular expressions, but I don't do very well with sed. I have two shell scripts I'm working on and I'd ...
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How to parse fields out of a text file and write them to another file

I have executed a database command and have generated an output file of the results. Each field name starts with dbt_xxxxxx Each field value is the value after the equal sign. how can I parse the file ...
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Sed: replacing digits

I am trying to write some install scripts for when I install/upgrade Ubuntu. I'm having trouble with fixing logrotate.d: /var/log/ufw.log { rotate 7 weekly missingok notifempty compress delaycompress ...
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How to perform a sed in-place substitution that only creates backups of files that were changed?

I ran the following to replace a term used in all files in the current working directory: $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i'.bup' -e's/Ms. Johnson/Mrs. Melbin/g' This performed the word ...
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How do I replace certain text with the respective line number using sed?

I have a file where certain (not all) lines look like so: Sequence: n I wish to replace n with the respective line number. How can I do it with sed?
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The way to use `/usr/bin/env sed -f ` in shebang?

Typing /usr/bin/env sed -f in terminal works. But if use it as a shebang, #!/usr/bin/env sed -f s/a/b/ The script will be fail to execute: /usr/bin/env: sed -f: No such file or directory I ...
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Replacing text from a list of replacements. Added complication: backslashes

I have a file A that contains pairs of strings, one per line: \old1 \new1 \old2 \new2 ..... I would like to iterate over file A, and for each line perform the replacement (e.g. "\old1 -> \new1") ...
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Processing bash variable with sed

Been banging my head off a wall on this bash variable LATLNG contains a latitude & longitude value in brackets like so (53.3096,-6.28396) I want to parse these into a variable called LAT and ...
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Replacing multiple lines in sed or awk

I'm trying to use sed or awk to replace 5 lines in a smb file but I just don't have any idea how to deal with the newlines.
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grep — removing text after delimiter token

I have a file in which I need to eliminate everything after the first ; on every line. So a file like this: sdfsdsdf; fsdfsddf;sdfsd; Will result in this: sdfsdsdf fsdfsddf I have looked into ...