Questions tagged [regular-expression]
Regular expressions are a means of matching a pattern of characters within a string.
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imagemagic: convert +append images : pass the list of files in numeric order rather than alphabetical order [duplicate]
I am trying to join few images into one single image
These are the list of files i have to join them horizontally
slice_0_0.png
slice_0_2.png
slice_0_4.png
slice_0_6.png
slice_0_8.png
slice_0_10.png
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Apending text to end of file
I am using sed to add text to end of file. So far I have tried
a. sed -i -e '$ a mynewtext' filename
b. sed -e '$amynewtext' filename
My file looks like this
90577958
90399451
90219954
90089937
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How to Search XML Block and Delete the same
This is my XML.
<configGroup>
<type>SERVER_CONFIG</type>
<configProperty id="Server48">
<configProperty>
<name>Server Name</name>
<...
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Regex search in PDF reader
I am a happy zathura user since I enjoy its minimalist approach, but to be clear I would also switch to mupdf or anything else if this would solve my problem. I need to highlight every word from start ...
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Gnu Sed (on Gnu/Linux) to find match + “anything” and replacing it
I'm trying to use sed to find matching string on a line in a file on nth match.
I want to use expression to mach num and "anything" after on that line and replace it with num x.
example file:
START
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Questions about regular expression matching results
I executed the following command
ip addr | grep -En 'inet (([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*)/24' | awk '{print "LAN:" $3 }'
why the result is '192.168.123.245/24', instead of this192.168.123.245?
Another ...
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Shell script, get/extract mac address from console output of command after “MAC: ”
I'm trying to automatically pull out the mac address of a arduino device using a shell script, and need some help how to do this.
This is the output returned by the command:
Opening /dev/cu....
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How to match x number of characters of a file name with cp?
I try to use cp to copy a file with a partially dynamic name:
cp google71bg2z2850dafxa3.html DESTIONATION
By principle, the google part of the file name is consistent, but the 71bg2z2850dafxa3 (16 ...
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egrep regex: having [ and ] or dot in character class does not match
I am trying to match an IPv6 address with square brackets but I am surprisingly stuck...
Works:
echo 'files ([2001:450:671d:200::121]:59464).' | egrep 'files \(.+\)\.$'
Does NOT match (but I think ...
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Use a regex pattern to search a file and count occurances
I am trying to search the DNS Bind querylog file ( domain requests for DNS) on Linux (raspberry pi) with a pattern to pull out the domains and then tally up the occurances of each domain
The ...
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awk and egrep for regular expression
I am very new to unix!
trying to figure out, from a fastq file how many reads have 3 or MORE As in a row?
I used egrep 'A{3}' to tell me how many AAA I have. But now I want to know >= 3 AAA in a ...
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regex (or other way) to find numbers followed by a space
I'm running the following
awk '$2 ~ /^[0-9]\s+/ {print($2)}' file >> file1
Not sure how to correct this to only select lines where digits are followed by a space?
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Regex in Bash for Git Push Output
Working on a simple script to backup some IDE settings and to learn bash scripting.
Here is what I have so far:
#!/bin/bash
NEWLINE=$'\n'
pushRegex='^([0-z]{7}[\.]{2}[0-z]{7}\s{2})(\w+)\s{1}(->)\...
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Append text to flagged output of awk
I have a function that takes a filename. It then runs a command and filters the output (exclusive) between two patterns, then it outputs comma separated values with the filename output of the command. ...
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How to add text after the nth occurrence in bash?
Let's say I have helloworld.txt:
hello world
Using sed:
sed 's/w*/goodbye/' helloworld.txt
Gives me:
goodbyehello world
And:
sed 's/$/goodbye/' helloworld.txt
Gives me:
hello worldgoodbye
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Vim is inserting ^@ when I try to insert a line break
When I open Vim on my laptop and run regex like this:
:%s/foo/\n/g
vim inserts ^@ instead of line breaks.
This problem started happening last week. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.04. I think the problem ...
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What is the bash code to remove varying characters in a file name up to a certain point?
I have a set of files that vary in characters. For Example:
IDNR19_15_037_S514_L001_R1_001.fastq
IDNR19_02_016_S238_L001_R1_001.fastq
I would like to remove all of the characters up the point of ...
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regex to group them same name
I have following lines in foo.txt
aaa:6600 location: US
aaa:6622 location: US
xxx:6601 location: EU
xxx:6602 location: EU
xxx:6603 location: EU
ggg:7701 location: KR
ggg:8808 location: KR
I ...
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sed: Remove everything from dot after FQDN
I am new to sed and am having some troubles making it work.
What I want is this:
abc.ztx.com. A 132.123.12.44 ---> abc.ztx.com
I used the below pattern, but doesn't seem to work:
echo "abc.ztx....
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Regex within awk from txt file with one line
I am currently working on a script to wipe hard drives. The first script is already working and checks if there are new hard drives available. If there is a new disk available it will list it in a ...
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Find files with specific character in second position in name
How can I find files with this pattern like ??11* or ??52*, start with two unknown numbers and two specific numbers and other nothing matter.
972966220_56_2_1_L2_P.jpg 971051472_69_2_1_L2_P.jpg
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extract text between the 7th and 8th “/” characters
I have about 100,000 variables with a full path to the location of a relevant file. The form is like this:
/abc/def/ghij/klm/nopq/r/stu/vwx/yz
The string I am looking for is the one between the 7th ...
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sed swallows braces / curly brackets
I've got a LaTeX file containing
\newcommand{\revision}{value}
And during CI I want to do the following:
REV=${CI_COMMIT_TAG:-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA}
sed -i 's/{\\revision}{\(\w*\)}/\1'"$REV"'/' ...
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sed doesn't consider a second match if it overlaps with the first match in the string
The title may be confusing, so here is an example:
$ echo X012X | sed 's|[0-1][1-2]|AA|'
XAA2X
$ echo X012X | sed 's|[0-1][1-2]|AA|2'
X012X
The first output is trivial, but not the second. Reading ...
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how to extract string by Regex with grep?
say I have a SQL.txt
select * from table1;
select a,b,c from table2 where a=1;
How can I filter the table name with the command cat SQL.txt|grep
My expected output is:
table1
table2
I'm a newbie ...
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How to negate regex using test
This is syntactically wrong:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
dimension="4x5"
if [[ "$dimension" !=~ '[0-9]x[0-9]' ]]; then
echo 'wtf meng, the dimension needs an "x" in it.'
return 1;
fi
the above has bad ...
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Vim - How to replace a newline with the string “\n”
In vim, I want to replace newlines with the literal string \n.
For example, if I open a file that contains this text:
This is line one
This is line two
I want to replace the newlines and have the ...
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Bash: delete curly braces on a condition
I want to remove curly braces from the string below, but only if * is found between them.
I have found a lot of answers on this topic, but in my scenario I want to delete only those braces where ...
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if with regex in bash code
In bash I did the following. This if expression will evaluate to true if the Redhat version is 7.5 or 7.6.
if [[ ` cat /etc/redhat-release | awk '{print $7}' ` == "7.5" ]] || [[ ` cat /etc/redhat-...
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String removal inside xargs printf statement?
Currently my mbsync is erroring out with a bunch of duplicated UIDs. This means I have to find all files that have duplicates of the sub-string "U=[0-9]+:" and change the most recent file to remove ...
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Adding a suffix to a matched regular expression does not work
This is the list of numbers i have:
46066.874.89
48569.123.56
56489.256.88
654.12.32
84689.25.69
My goal is to add two zeroes at the end of 654.12.32. But for some reason neither
sed -E 's/(\.[0-9][...
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AllowGroups in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file
The following sed command adds my_unix_admins to the end of the lines starting with the word AllowGroups.
/bin/sed -i '/^AllowGroups / s/$/ my_unix_admins/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
I want to only add ...
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Add a suffix to a matched regular expression
I got some lines containing numbers in the first field:
46066.874.89
48569.123.56
56489.256.88
654.12.32
84689.25.69
What I would like to do now is add 00 at the end of 654 in the fourth line and ...
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how to replace and delete symbols in a single SED command [duplicate]
Currently I'm replacing symbols A and B and deleting symbol C with two distinct sed commands in a pipe:
% cat file.txt | sed 's/, /;/g' | sed 's[][]//g'
Is there a way to have these two in one sed ...
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I would like to export below data into csv file from the multiple property files; files are not in the standard format [closed]
Filename: hello1
cassandraDriver.contactPoints=10.65.4.203,10.65.4.220
cassandraDriver.port=9042
Filename: hello2
cassandraDriver.contactPoints=10.65.4.203
cassandraDriver.port=80
onprem.cassandra....
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need help with SED to omit some expressions
sed -E 's/([0-9]{3})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{4})/ /g' a.dat > b.dat
This is replacing 111-11-1111 to spaces , but its also replacing 0111-11-1111 to spaces to... But I want it to ignore 0111-11-1111 (...
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filename globbing
I would like to know why these 2 filenames globbing expression
[bru][abru]* and [br]*
will return me a filename call
brutus
but will not return me this filename
abruti
thanks
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regular expression
I'm not sure about the meaning of this regular expression.
^[^a]*$
Does that mean, we don't want any string started with the letter a or contain a. And we don't want any string ended with also the ...
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sed add first word from previous line to beginning of the next line, if
I ran into a problem and can't find a solution to fix the following issue.
I want to copy the first word of a line to the beginning of the following n lines if they start with a special character, ...
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Does order in sed's regex character classes (e.g. [abc]) matter?
I guess it's best to start with an example:
> echo "[20-20:10]Something" | sed -r -e 's/^\[[0-9\:\-]+(.*)$/\1/'
]Something
> echo "[20-20:10]Something" | sed -r -e 's/^\[[0-9\-\:]+(.*)$/\1/'
-...
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Match system path with awk in if statement
I am trying to catch if the file system was mounted on a directory tree with:
mount | awk '{ if ( $3 == /mnt/pxe ) print mounted }'
But the string is not catched even though mount exists. The mount ...
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SED find and replace internal filepaths from files
we have few asset files with internal filepaths, for example "/Users/testuser/dev/app-path/widget" such as below.
test.js
[["elliptic@6.5.2","/Users/testuser/dev/app-path/widget"]],"_development":...
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Replace (remove) multiple lines from files
A server of mine was hacked, and they added at the beginning of every js file the following:
var hglgfdrr4634hezfdg = 1; var d=document;var s=d.createElement('script'); s.type='text/javascript'; s....
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Removing everything after pattern with sed or awk
I know there are lots of questions about it but I can't get it working.
I want to clean a group (for instance root) in /etc/group with sed or awk. So I need to delete everything after root:*:0:
I ...
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Print text after pattern from one file in another file on mac OS X
The script below looks at printing any text after the first occurrence of pattern "Word1 word2" from file1.txt in another file called newfile.txt:
sed -n -e 's/^.*Word1 word2/\1/p' file1.txt > ...
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How can I match all characters up to the second to last white space character in a string?
I'm trying to replace the substring "Abbey Street E.2 " in the string "Abbey Street E.2 Buckfast Street" to get the result "Buckfast Street".
I tried :s/[^ ]* [^ ]* //but I'm getting "Street".
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sed regex not working in shell script
Given:
~$ cat .test-profile
export ADMIN_EMAIL=info@mail.com
export MONGODB_URI='mongodb+srv://administrator:abcdef@mysite-cluster-n1qub.mongodb.net/test?retryWrites=true&w=majority'
I wrote the ...
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How to replace a line in text using RegEX?
The problem I have is that is trying to match both sets of delimiter (above and below)
I'm trying to match only the second part of the delimiter below (bolded).
This is so I can add a new version ...
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Find Duplicate/Repeated or Unique words spanning across multiple lines in a file
Problem
Is it possible to print repeated words that are not unique and spanning across multiple lines? not just unique words within singular lines.
Previous work
There's this question which solves ...
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grep regular expression that matches all valid IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
I'm looking for a regular expression for grep that filters out IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from an arbitrary file containing them. I'd like it to behave like this one for IPv4 addresses:
grep -E -o "(25[...
