Questions tagged [string]
String manipulation: extracting a part of a string, text replacement, formatting to a given width, etc.
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String compare negating in bash doesn't behave as it should be?
I have this little bash script:
readonly imagick_extension=$(cat "${php_configuration_file}" | grep imagick)
echo "Imagick extension grep value: $imagick_extension"
if [ "${...
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Rookie Question: Regex in ZSH Script
I think my problem is very simple. I want to construct a new filename, which has a fixed prefix and a number (two digits), which is part of the old filename.
Example: I have a file 'blableblub23.pdf' ...
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How to change 2 words in a string in BASH where there will be a ":" in one of them
I have worked my best on trying to make a script to iterate thorugh 2 Arrays.
The values in each Array needs to get its value input into a string called ExecuteSyncoid based on a string called ...
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split string using a substring as delimiter and get the later part
Here is my string LIBRARY_TRGT_CANV,CANV_MATCH<anything>
I wish to get all the text after last occurance of our delimiter which is _TRGT_:
Desired output:
CANV,CANV_MATCH<anything>
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Need help Formatting a file having key: value [duplicate]
I have a file having the below values:
cat data.txt
server1: 'calv'
server2: 'anot'
log: '/u/log/1'
server3: 'calv'
server4: 'anot'
server5: 'secd'
server6: 'calv'
LIB_TRGT_calv,anot: '/tmp/hello.txt'
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Need to format text file and update based of key value format
I have a file having the below values:
cat data.txt
server1: calv
server2: anot
log: /u/log/1
server3: calv
server4: anot
server5: secd
server6: calv
LIB_TRGT_calv,anot: /tmp/hello.txt
LIB_TRGT_secd: /...
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bash insert backslash for every slash in string
I have a string that is a path:
/tmp/something
I need to escape the forward slashes with backslashes:
\/tmp\/something
How can I do this? Maybe sed?
Please point me in the right direction.
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grep results with spaces and special chars
I am trying to grab results from lshw and add them to a a bash array so I can create a new string. I am using
lshw -class disk |egrep -A 7 .'-d' |grep 'product' |cut -b 17-
the output looks like this
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String concatenation failing after personal access token [duplicate]
What specific syntax needs to be changed in the commands below in order for the end result of the commands to produce the expected value of https://ghp_fyrwTOKEN_REDACTEDgugg@github.com/...
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Encapsulate only comma-separated strings in quotes
I have some data that is currently in TSV format, but needs to be converted into CSV format. The only problem is that occasionally in the TSV, there are some values that include commas that are not ...
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How to split a key-value string into array pairs?
How can I split the following String into key-value pairs using bash?
SOURCE="'key1=val 1' 'key2=val 2'"
My output goal is:
key1=val 1
key2=val 2
I can only input a single String as a ...
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Recursively renaming apostrophs ' in filenames (Bash)
Need to remove apostrophes from files. I have tried several approaches, also from Stackexchange.
I am on a Synology NAS, so I don't have Python, or Perl and furthermore I have to exclude certain ...
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Search & replace for a string separated by whitespace upon substring match found
Below is a sample file content:
cat sample.txt
-server -XX:+UseParallelGC -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+AggressiveHeap -XX:+PrintHeapAtGC -Djava.util.logging.FileHandler....
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How to make sure that the last character of each line of a file ends with single quote character
I have a file which has several lines.
I wish to update the file while making sure that the last visible character of each line of the file is a single quote '. In case not, then we should add the ...
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How to add single quote at the end of ONLY the last line of a file [duplicate]
I want a non-perl solution where I should be able to append a single quote ' at the last visible (non-escape characters) line of a file and save it back to the file.
cat example.txt
var1: 'funn'
var2: ...
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if-statement with ((...)) string comparison not working in a bash script
I have written below script:
#!/usr/bin/bash
STR_1="nfosys"
STR_2="Infosys"
if (( $STR_1 == $STR_2 ))
then
echo "Strings are equal"
else
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Replace hyphen(s) with underscore(s) within angle brackets in a file
I’m aware of how to replace string;
e.g., replace hyphen with underscore in a file.
However, I wish to replace all hyphens with underscore
for all text that falls within angle brackets in a given file....
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sorting files using string
I have a directory of 1000+ files (follow the same formatting) example file would be
giroof-doas-ob10roof-L1-202007020832-10.std
Where year is 2020
month is 07
day is 02
hour is 08
min is 32
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Grep a list of strings [closed]
I have a multiple strings that I want to find them in a list of files that are in a same folder. So, I want to put all the strings in a sort of list and then apply the command: grep -l string *,so I ...
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Finding a string in multiple folders that are in the same directory
I have a directory A that has multiple folders, and I want to find a string in those folders. How can I do it?
I have tried grep -rw string * in A, but it takes a lot of time.
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How to swap odd and even words in each line?
I have a bash script that swaps odd and even strings in one file, and saves it to another:
#!/bin/bash
infile="inputfile"
outfile="outputfile"
{
while read -r odd && read ...
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Why echo is printing string variables before additional text that have been merged with it?
I have code in bash for making latex file and in this fragment I want to make a table in a loop:
while IFS= read -r line; do
if [[ "$line" == *"comment"* ]]; then
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How can I use ! with \ to wrap command in bash?
I am in a situation that can not find a solution for my case.
I need to run a long command in bash, say:
node -p "const db = {1:1, 2:2};Object.keys(db).sort((a, b)=> a-b).map(Number).filter((n)...
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How to use sed to delete this string </p>\n</body>\n</html>"
How to delete this string using sed?
</p>\n</body>\n</html>"
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Limit gettext translation length to avoid truncation
I work on an application which uses gettext to translate internal strings, e.g.:
char * button_caption = gettext("Printer Settings");
The problem I'm regularly running into is with ...
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cut command: how use the delimiter to be considered/included within the field position?
I want extract the version release of some file .gz/.zip installers.
Therefore if is executed (shown in this way for simplicity purposes):
echo "apache-maven-3.8.4-bin.tar.gz" | cut -d'-' -f ...
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Remove duplicates of specific line keeping only the first appearance of each without touching other unspecified duplicates
I'm trying to edit a text file containing several duplicates. The goal is to keep only the first match of a string and remove the rest duplicate lines of the same string.
In the example file
* Title 1
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select lines in file with same string pattern
Let´s suppose I have the following file.txt:
asiub
sj
abq
b aia
ainp oo
test = 123d
sub ,.
aiba 87ab
test = 129szs bq
test = aqua
ayqvq 133s
I want to print only the lines of file.txt that contain ...
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Append string to the end of the penultimate line of a file
I want to append / concatenate a text in one line before the last line. So if my original file is:
1 sometext
2 sometext
3 sometext
4 sometext
5 sometext
my new file is
1 sometext
2 sometext
3 ...
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Escape characters in sed transliterate
I want to use sed's transliterate (y///) to replace one set of characters by another.
I would expect this to work just as well as using the tr program.
$ echo '[]{}abc' | tr '[ab}' 'gefh'
g]{hefc
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How to search for a string in a very large file with very long lines?
It turns out I was accidentally using grep wrong yesterday. I just checked my bash history and saw what I was executing:
grep search-string-here -f large-file-with-long-lines.txt
And that was what ...
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Is it possible to move a string which starts with # after another string to the preceding line?
I have a script file that looks like this:
auditctl -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S openat -F auid=1000 <TAB> #description of command....
auditctl -a .... ...
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How do I return an element from a bash array using a partial string match?
I have a bash array containing several elements, only one of which will be in the format nn.wr , where nn is a variable integer.
eg
array=( "abcd" "01.wr" "ef_gh" )
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Repeat char n times in zsh prompt
I'm working on a custom ZSH prompt and I want to repeat a char n times in a string (such as spaces for padding). This string is printed with print -rP (the -r flag ignores echo escape conventions and ...
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sed command failing in script with arguments
I am trying to perform a two step string editing:
Match for the string "payload". If found, then add some "#if #endif" code as shown in output file.
Then copy the line containing &...
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Rename file by removing repetitive substrings contained in filenames
I need to rename a bunch of files with the following pattern:
sub-2795479_ses-V1_task-rest_acq-REST1_dir-AP_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-01_run-...
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Increment mountpoint name with awk
I am currently writing a script that makes mounting of LUKS devices easier.
In the script I do have a default mountpoint name (data_1), - however, if a mountpoint like that already exists, I want to ...
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Shell-script extract value pair with sed/awk?
Given a string like this:
NAME="bla" TYPE="test" SIZE="10"
I want to get the values for each pair into into separate shell-script vars.
So, for example, say we have ...
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Search and replacing a string on specific file extensions with the folder name
I want to find a string ("AAA") in an specific file extension ("*.txt") inside a directory tree (../MyParentFolder), and replace it with the subfolder name (MySubfolder). I know a ...
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How do I find bigrams in a .txt file and sort them according to frequency?
I want to find all the bigrams in a file and sort them ascendingly according to frequency. This is how far I have gone: cat filename.txt | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr -d [:punct:]
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Vary positions in a string to generate a list of outputs
I am dealing with short strings (they're DNA sequences) of ~30 length. For my purposes, every 5th position needs to be swapped for any of the 4 DNA bases (A, C, T, G).
e.g. if I have an input of ...
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case-substring function and quoting
i use a simple function in a script in order to ckeck if a string contains a particular substring:
#!/bin/bash
#
subs() {
case $2 in
*$1*)
return 0 ;;
*)
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Finding element of file in KSH
please help me figure out what I am doing wrong.
I have this file called "res.xml"
<sequence type="a">
<transaction>
<branchSerial>1</branchSerial>
&...
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xgettext incorrectly sorts strings
I'm trying to produce translation files from C sources with translation entries coming in the exact same order as they appear in the sources. I do not want them sorted alphabetically, or coming in ...
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Putting string with newline separated words into array
I currently have a a bash variable that holds a string similar to this one,
where each different phrase is separated by a newline:
var="1st word
2nd word
4th word"
Note there is an empty ...
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convert only the first column in a file to lower case
I have a file on RedHat with the data below:
$ cat hello.txt
mumdfw2as123v USER=wladmin MOUNTPOINT=/apps
MUMFW2as97v.mrshmc.com USER=wladmin ...
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How to a split string by spaces, which contains quoted values
Take the following bash example (I should mention that my real output comes from vboxmanage list vms)
TEST='"ubuntu server" foo bar'
echo $TEST
"ubuntu server" foo bar
How do I ...
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how to use sed to replace a string of characters in quotes
I want to use sed to replace the current time in the code below
time0=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')
time1=$(date '+%H:%M:%S')
time=$(echo ""$time0"T"$time1"Z")
replace $time on ...
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How to sort filename list (txt-file) by sub-strings of the filename/path with multiple levels. Special challenge: Two types of filename conventions
I'd like to sort the following list of filenames / pathes.
L1_Data/level1/192027/LC08_L1TP_192027_20201126_20210316_01_T1 DONE
L1_Data/level1/192028/LC08_L1TP_192028_20201126_20210316_01_T1 DONE
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string from array
I have an array named nmser in a bash script and I would like to make a string from it and store it in the variable flsel.
flsel=echo "${nmser[*]}"
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