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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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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 ...
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Replacing pattern after nth match is found on each line?

I have a file containing lines: india;austria;japan;chile china;US;nigeria;mexico;russia I want to replace all the occurences of semicolon on each line with e.g. ;NEW;, but starting from the 2nd ...
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how to parse this data and count the matching patterns? [closed]

Gi1/0/12 Gi1/0/13 Gi1/0/14 Gi1/0/15 Gi1/0/16 Gi1/0/17 Gi1/0/18 Gi1/0/19 Gi1/0/20 Gi1/0/21 Gi1/0/22 Gi1/0/23 Fa2/0/13 Fa2/0/14 Fa2/0/15 Fa2/0/16 Fa2/0/17 Fa2/0/18 Fa2/0/19 Fa2/0/20 Fa2/0/21 Fa2/0/22 ...
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How to find what device a file is on (and use that in a script)?

I want to find out what device my file is on so that I can use it in a script. I can get this far: $ df . Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s2 498438976 ...
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How to delete number of lines from file repetitively

I've read How do I delete the first n lines of an ascii file using shell commands?, it is helpful. However I've a file something as below (please consider 2 columns as 2 different files): 1 4 1 4 1 4 ...
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How to rename files with sed and csv

I'm new with Linux, sed, and awk but I don't mind challenging myself on new ideas. That being said, I understand the purpose and how to use rename and sed for a common event such as adding a $date or ...
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What's a good way to filter a text file to remove empty lines?

I have a .csv file (on a mac) that has a bunch of empty lines, e.g.: "1", "2", "lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum ...
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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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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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Complicated variable content failed to get into sed

The first line is variable ann hold quite complicated value. The reason I use the second line is because I don't want to change anything in the third line col1content. To change replacement, I just ...
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Substitute pattern within a file with the content of other file

I have a text file (devel.xml). I added the word REPLACETHIS to it in order to replace this string with the content within a different file (temp.txt). The closest thing I have is this: sed -i -e ...
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How to embed a shell command into a sed expression?

I have a text file with the following format: keyword value keyword value ... Where keyword is a single word and value is everything else until the end of line. I want to read the file from a shell ...
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Parsing the output of date with sed

I am trying to replace the whitespaces in the output of date with '_' with no success. $date Fri Sep 14 14:10:04 EDT 2012 $ date | sed 's/ /_/' Fri_Sep 14 14:10:24 EDT 2012 As you can see, the ...
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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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What is the best way to find a list of several strings within a large text file

The short, general question is: In Unix/Linux, what is the best way to find a list of several (about 150) strings within a large text file? I am asking this to all Unix/Linux experts as a general ...
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delete first line of file only if blank using sed

I have a solution for this in awk: awk '{if (NR==1 && NF==0) next};1' somefile but was unable to find one that worked in sed. E.g., sed -i.bak '/^$/{1,1d;}' somefile ended up deleting ...
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Change string occurrences in file while respecting DOS new line sequences

I use Visual Studio for my C# development while using Cygwin for some of the tasks that require scripting. Recently I wanted to change all occurrences of string AAA to BBB in my project's files. I ...
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Detect pattern repetition in a file

I want to make sure a file follows the following pattern: ... ... ... foo ... foo_KO ... ... ... bar ... ... ... ... bar_KO ... The file is extremely long, so, in other words, I want to make sure ...
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Substituting strings in a very large file

I have a very long series of urls with no separating character, in the same format as below: http://example.comhttp://example.nethttp://example.orghttp://etc... I want each URL to be on a new line. ...
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How to skip file in sed if it contains regex?

I currently use the following simplified command to remove trailing whitespace and add a newline at end of file where needed: find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/[ \t]\+\(\r\?\)$/\1/;$a\' {} \+ As ...
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To pass a parameter with sed

For my script I have to read the data from a file. For example I have 2 files: one is a text file, the second is a csv file with 10 columns. What I am trying to do is to read the csv and change the ...
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What is the purpose of -e in sed command?

I can't find any documentation about the sed -e switch, for simple replace, do I need it? e.g. sed 's/foo/bar/' VS sed -e 's/foo/bar/'
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Removing all spaces, tabs, newlines, etc from a variable?

This is the error I am getting and it's failing because of a variable whose value is supposed to be 2 (I am getting this using a select * from tabel). I am getting spaces in that variable. + 0 != ...
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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 ...
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How to echo an escaped string

How can I echo an escaped string that contains $ in Bourne Shell? user@server:~$ cat test.sh #!/bin/sh echo $1 user@server:~$ ./test.sh \$sad\$test $sad$test I want it to return an escaped ...
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Chinese characters instead of Latin being written to file

When I run sed like this and print to a console everything is fine: sed '/Q/{ s/Q//g r /Users/ericbrotto/Desktop/question.txt }' Commision.txt But when I do this and output t a file: sed '/Q/{ ...
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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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How could I simplify this command to only use awk?

awk '/user/ {print $1 }' /etc/userdomains | sed 's/://' the format of /etc/userdomains is domain.tld: user otherdomain.tld: otheruser
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Directory filenames with sed with whitespaces

I'm working on a script and I'm stuck, even with the help of teh googles. Here's my code: for FOLDER in `find . -type d | sed "s#^.#$(pwd)#" | sed 's/ /\ /g'` do echo "$FOLDER" done This will ...