Questions tagged [replace]
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Stuck With Using find and sed to Replace String in Filenames
Following this post as a reference, I'm able to run a find and sed command without it throwing an error, but the filenames remain unchanged.
Trying to strip pronunciation_de_ from all mp3s in the ...
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Mass folder name correction - Calibre
I allowed Calibre access to my Library and it decided to change all my folder names adding (123) after every folder. (Replace 123 with random numbers.)
What would be best command to use on Linux (...
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Odd behavior (bug?) of sed when using $
I've got a problem and I am not sure whether this is a bug or if this is supposed to happen when using $ for addressing lines. Basically, I have the following command:
sed -e '$s/test/tset/g'
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Simple Binary Replacement
I tried using bbe as below
bbe -e 's/01110011/01111000/' test.txt
All I'm trying to accomplish in this example is to read the file as if it's a binary file, and replacing the letter s with x.
I'm ...
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Storage disk info - Replace multiple Input values to output file
I would like replace below input about storage disk to an output in below presented format:
Below script is almost working for me. But it doesn't work for T0.
It seems is there problem with proper ...
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Delete groups of lines that have the same first line, except for the first occurence
This may be a couple questions in one, but this problem has me stuck. I have a text file with groupings of four lines separated by an empty line. The first line of every grouping begins with a '>' ...
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How to Replace 3rd column (until a specific char) in a file from another file
I have two files: bor.mol2 and bor.com
In bor.mol2, there are X,Y,Z coordinates of atoms between @<TRIPOS>ATOM and @<TRIPOS>BOND keywords in this file 3th, 4th and 5th columns are ...
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Replace string in multiple files (same directory) with condition
Example:
File1:
Name: abc
Number: 325
Code: 0
File2:
Name: xyz
Number: 578
Code: 0
File3:
Name: ttt
Number: 356
Code: 0
File4:
Name: nnn
Number: 228
Code: 0
File5:
Name: bnb
Number: 434
Code:...
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Replacing string in file with MAC OSX
I need to replace a string in a (large) file on a MacOSX 10.10. My file looks like this:
Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB-
Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_
and I need to ...
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I am not able to update a variable through sed command
I have assigned two variables but not able to update
x=$(cat /scratch/env.properties | grep ConfigPath)
y=$(ConfigPath=/scratch/a/b)
then sed to replace ConfigPath in env.properties
sed 's/$x/$y/' ...
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Parse a csv file, replace separator, ignoring the content of fields between “ ”
I have a file with ; separators ; my application parses the data, based on those separators. String fields are between "" and in columns, I might have the separator as text.
I would like to replace ...
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How to find and replace seemingly a tab char using sed?
I have a line looks like this:
some.com *.some.com
The space is seemingly a tab space because when I move the keyboard arrow, one move will move me to the end of it (it does not seem multiple ...
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How to express beginning and end of line in sed
I want to use sed to replace every '} that comes at the end of the line to "}. I wrote:
sed -i -e "s/'}$/\"}$/g"
But this replaces it to: "}$. What is wrong? How can I use regex in my sed to express ...
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How to search for a newline that is not preceeded by } and remove it
I want to use sed to search for line breaks that are not preceded by }.
The regex for identifying theses cases is: [^}]$ . What I want to say: If the line ended without } then remove the new line. ...
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How to keep the content of a replaced string with sed
I am trying to use sed to replace a line of text that will keep the found text intact and add a colon to the end of it.
specifically, in a file there are a bunch of lines in this format
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Can I replace multiple characters in ed?
I have a text 'ab' whose content is composed of a,b letter.
I want to change a to b, b to a at once by using s command in ed.
But if I change them step by step, as you know, all the text will be ...
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Why is my multi-line perl string replace adding a blank line?
I'm trying to replace multiple lines in a text file (an XML element with an unknown number of children) with the contents of a separate text file. I've managed to get the replace mostly working using ...
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Is it possible to replace duplicates of a character with one character using tr
I'm trying to take all occurrences of # and if they are consecutive replace them with just one #.
e.g.
ab ### cde fghi## jklm
would become:
ab # cde, fghi# jklm
My initial goal was to replace ...
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How to replace patterns in files contained in a list of files?
I have a text file fileslist containing a list of names of files, or rather relative paths to those files and their names from a certain parent directory. There is only one file per line in fileslist. ...
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awk query for sequential replace a pattern
I found the below awk command to sequentially replace a particular line in a file, but i would like to know how this works.
Input:-
DS: 1
DS: 1
DS: 1
DS: 1
DS: 1
DS: 1
DS: 1
output:-
DS: 1
DS: 2
...
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Bash replace string at multiple places in a file from command line
I have a file with the below content. I want to replace chrome with chromeBackup but not in all places.
Name=chrome
XXXXXXXXXXX
Run=bin -app "chrome/chrome.sh"
XXXXXXXXXXX
Vol.apps/chrome=chrome
...
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sed: strip enclosing square brackets
I have this file:
[default]
region = us-east-1
output = json
[profile automation]
region = us-east-1
output = json
[profile qa]
region = us-east-1
output = json
I need to extract only the profile ...
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btrfs replace on RAID1 is super slow with failed disk present
I'm trying to replace a failed disk in a RAID1 btrfs filesystem.
I can still mount the partition rw (after about 5 minute delay and lots of I/O kernel errors).
I started replace with -r in an ...
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korn shell Unable to substitute ' ' (2 quotes) with ' (single quote) in a string variable
I am trying to substitute ''2019-01-14'' to '2019-01-14' in a varible $STG.
I tried various techniques
echo ${STG//''/'}
echo $STG | sed -e s/'\'\''/'\''/g
many more none of the equations are ...
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sed find and replace html tag
I need find and replace in a md file (plain text)
<span class="symbol"></span>
with this:
[]{custom-style="symbol"}
I tried many times, f.e.
sed -i -e 's/\(&...
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Replace a string in a file preceeded by another string
I have a bunch of config files looking as follows:
reader_0 = newcamd({
name = "Oct 1",
host = "hostname 1",
port = 27020,
user = "UNAME",
pass = "password1",
key = "0102030405060708091011121314",
})...
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How to prevent from destroying symlinks, using Perl when to replace with sed regex?
Based on How do I prevent sed -i from destroying symlinks?, but I use Perl.
I tried by middle of all these questions:
Is there a way to make perl -i not clobber symlinks?
perl symlink on gz file
How ...
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How to replace double new line with single using tr?
Given a text,
$ cat a.txt
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam at magna sed libero accumsan ultrices. Proin varius tortor risus, at pulvinar quam auctor
vitae.
Etiam iaculis ...
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how to find & replace a file path listed in a file
I have a file content as shown below. If a line has ".idt" word, then I need to check if there is a file path preceding it (eg: /bin/dir/test/abcdef.idt). If yes, then remove the file path and keep ...
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How to replace value in each field until a certain character in each record?
Each record coming with column names. I have to replace them in each record as shown below:
TIME=20181219110000275|CHAN=FMBKHJBAAAADPCFNAAAAAABA|EVNT=SWIgrld|API=SWIrecGrammarActivate|TYPE=uri/2.0|...
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Multiline string replace inside markup tag
I am trying to modify an httpd.conf file, allowing override in the /var/www/html directory. For simplicity's sake, let's say it looks like this:
<Directory "/var/www/html">
# Comment
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Two replacements in one go [duplicate]
How do I go about replacing one character for another and then another character for another in one line and printing the result?
As an example, consider the following code:
string="1 33 4 a"
echo ${...
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Search and replace specific tag value in XML file with sed command
I have a task where by I have to manipulate an XML file through a bash shell script.
Here are the steps:
Query XML file for a value.
Replace the value of a different element with the new value.
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Bash string range and replace
To print part of the string, replace , with . I use command:
echo "${q:16:6}" | sed 's/,/./'
Is it possible to use something like:
echo "${q:16:6/,/.}"
because it does not work?
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How to replace a number by its corresponding string (low/high) in bash?
I have a file:
property(Address1, 4.5)
property(Address2, 2.2)
property(Address3, 9.0)
property(Address4, 3.4)
---
I want to replace the floating points based on some conditions (For example: if the ...
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find and replace a substring and change to uppercase
I think it's best done with an example
Contents of my file
name="apple" parameter1="value1" parameter2="value2";
name="orange" parameter1="value1" parameter2="value2";
name="tea" parameter1="value1" ...
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Replace different strings based on a match by a list of strings in another file
I have a file like this with tab delimiter:
Chr1 mak gene 120221 120946 . + . ID=spa-h0003.02;Name=spa-h0003.02
Chr1 mak mRNA 120221 120946 . + . ...
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Using sed to replace periods with single spaces to periods with double spaces [duplicate]
What command would you give to print (display on the screen) the corrected text of userNotes.txt with all sentence endings having required two blanks before the start of the next sentence?
This is ...
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How do I use different replacement texts for a pattern found multiple times [duplicate]
sample log file:
apple AAA rose
banana AAA tulip
orange AAA marigold
replacement-text file:
111
222
333
Expected output:
apple 111 rose
banana 222 tulip
orange 333 marigold
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sed with variables containing /
i have a text file containing some content like that,
some content
replace content
other content
and i have some variables, looking like this:
PATH="/path/to/scriptdir"
PARAMETERS="para1 ...
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Conditionally replace lines of file1 with the corresponding lines of file2
For example, I have two files:
file1:
1
4
X
5
X
7
file2:
2
3
5
X
X
1
I want to replace X-lines of file1 with whatever is in file2 on the corresponding line:
result:
1
4
5
5
X
7
I prefer the ...
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Replace iteratively with things contained in array
foo bar, foo bar, foo bar
foo bar
Given this beautiful poem, how could all the bar be replaced by superman, but each time with a different ending, contained in an array (is super, is blazing fast, is ...
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Replacing two patterns in a text files at the same time [duplicate]
I have a text file contain numbers as follows:
34 77 1716 150?.2 67.5892 11.9691 23 1?6 83
35 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
36 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
37 80 0 0 ? ? 0 0 0
38 81 0 0 0 ? 0 0 0
39 82 0 0 0 0 ? 0 ?
40 85 ...
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Replace text with another
I would like to replace a string with another string. For example:
I would like to change the following text:
"listen_addresses = ['127.0.0.1:53', '[::1]:53']"
to the following text
"...
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Replace string in one file with contents of another file when match column
I have two files like:
file 1 :
a stringori to replace, this stringori comme again
other stringori2 to replace, stringori2 commes again
...
file 2:
stringori newstring
stringori2 newstring2
...
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How can I operate on \1 in sed (or $1 in awk)?
I have file with several lines. Each with a timestamp followed by text:
1534888050 some text
1534888051 some more text
1534888052 text
... and want to convert the timestamp to a readable format, ...
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Recursively find and replace contents of one file using a key from another file
I need to use one file as an input to find and replace in another file. The following command does so, but only for the first column for each line. I need this to happen for every column.
awk -F',' '...
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preg_replace for replacing comment text in a file
In a file, I want to replace
COMMENT AS `<some_comment>`
with
COMMENT '<some_comment>'
That is, replace COMMENT AS with just COMMENT, and replace the backticks around the following ...
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Rename multiple files with 2 conditions/replacements in one line?
I'm trying to rename a few images:
IMG_1.JPG
IMG_2.JPG
IMG_3.JPG
I want to replace IMG with img and .JPG with .jpg - I know how to do the second part:
$ rename 's/\.JPG$/\.jpg/' *.JPG
My problem ...
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Bash replace string with command
I have a command (logcat) which outputs a long log like this:
07-27 09:26:22.416 17574 17886 D SurfaceControl: Excessive delay in setPowerMode()
07-27 09:26:22.421 17574 17599 I PowerManagerService: ...
