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comparing lines with awk vs while read line
I have two files one with 17k lines and another one with 4k lines. I wanted to compare position 115 to position 125 with each line in the second file and if there is a match, write the entire line ...
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Sed find/delete for a string with multiple special characters recursively
I'm having quite a bit of difficulty with a complex string. A friend's site was hacked and has since been locked down but I'm helping to clean up the mess leftover and what I need to do is the ...
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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 ...
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How to search and replace multiple needles by one word via one expression?
Assume you have a text file:
foo fnord bar
bizz foo poit
And now I would want to replace both "foo" and "bar" into "narf".
I know I could use:
sed -e 's/foo/narf/g' -e 's/bar/narf/g' fileName
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