I have a file named xyz.txt and a varibale delVar=123.
I need to delete a line from xyz.txt having string:
Some (text($delVar
I tried multiple combinations of sed and awk :
sed -i "/Some\\\(text\\\($delVar/d" xyz.txt
Doesn't work.
sed -i '/Some\\(text\\('"$delVar"'/d' xyz.txt
Doesn't work either.
When I try to bypass '(' using single \, the error "unmatched ( or (" comes up.
I am using cygwin to run this.
My .sh file:
accountId=$1
Number=$2
temp="Example"
grep $temp History.txt > $Number-History.txt
sed -i '/VALUES (CAST('"$accountId"'/d' $Number-History.txt
sed -i '/, CAST('"$accountId"' /!d' $Number-History.txt
sed -i 's/History.txt:/ /' $Number-History.txt
HistCount=$(wc -l < "$Number-History.txt")
echo $HistCount
My command:
./MyFile.sh 123 ABC000987
Here, when I save 123 in accountId and try to set it in my pattern, it matches patters with the number 1234, 1123 etc also
As stated by Sundeep in a comment, you do not need to escape the ( because sed by default uses basic regex expressions (where ( and + and others do not need to be escaped to match a literal ( or +, etc.).
But you do need to escape the $, because $ matches the end of the pattern space.
sed -i "/Some(text(\$delVar/d" xyz.txt
should work.
If you want to use extended regex expressions, use the -r flag.
sed -ir "/Some\(text\(\$delVar/d" xyz.txt
Now you need to escape the (s as well as the $s.
Related
I have into a text file the following line :
\[Omega]BD=100;
I would like to replace with gsed the value 100 by a shell variable (zsh shell), here 600 :
I tried :
$ i=600
$ gsed 's/\[Omega]BD=.*/\[Omega]BD=\'\\"$i"\\';/' text_to_modify.txt | grep 600
but it returns me :
\[Omega]BD=\600; and not \[Omega]BD=600;
The is an additional backslash that I don't want, I wonder how could I remove this backslash. I would like to keep the two single quotes of gsed 's/.../.../'
Using sed;
i=600
$ sed "/\[Omega]/s/[[:digit:]]\+/$i/" input_file
\[Omega]BD=600;
You may use this sed command:
i=600
sed -E "s/(\\\\\[Omega]BD=).*/\1$i;/" file
\[Omega]BD=600;
We require additional escaping i.e. \\\\ to match a single \ because we are using double quotes around full sed command.
Or we can avoid you can use this combination of single and double quotes to avoid extra escaping:
sed -E 's/(\\\[Omega]BD=).*/\1'"$i;/" file
I have a file file.txt and it has the lines below. I want the queuename to be converted to uppercase, like this: queuename=SP00245B
# Queue name
#
queuename=sp00245b
awk '$1 == "queuename" {$2 = toupper($2)}1' FS== OFS== input-file
Note that this will fail if there are 2 = in the line, and only the values between the first 2 = will be uppercased. If that's an issue, it's an easy fix (left as an exercise for the reader).
A simple Perl solution:
perl -i -pe 's/^\s*queuename=\K(.*)/\U$1/' file.txt
(Remove -i if you don't want to modify the file in place.)
With GNU sed:
sed -i 's/\(^[[:blank:]]*queuename=\)\(.*\)/\1\U\2/' file.txt
This uses two captures groups and the \U sequence to toggle uppercase substitution for the second group.
You can also use the sed conversion \U to convert the portions of the matched pattern with the substitution command to uppercase. To covert everything following the '=' sign you could use, e.g.
sed '/^queuename=/s/=.*$/\U&/' filename
To edit the file in-place, include the -i option, e.g.
sed -i '/^queuename=/s/=.*$/\U&/' filename
Example Use/Output
$ echo "queuename=sp00245b" | sed '/^queuename=/s/=.*$/\U&/'
queuename=SP00245B
I'm trying to replace recursively all shabang from a folder (for run program in android..), with sed .
The command works good when i tried with "normal word" but become a headache when i'm trying with shabang..Everything i tried, I got error :
bad option in substitution expression
unmatched '/'
event not found
I'm new to this and it's probably begginer mistake, so here is the code (tsst is my folder):
grep -rl "env python" tsst |xargs sed -i "s/\#!/usr/bin/env python/\#!/system/python2.7.9//g"
I also tried with variables:(first part of code is good .. i just copy where there's a problem.)
sed -i "s/$old/$new/g"
sed -i 's/"$old"/"$new"/g'
sed -i "s/'\#!\/usr\/bin\/env python'/'\#!\/system\/python2.7.9\/'/g"
What did i do wrong ?
Try this regex. You can't mix / as the regex delimiter and actual characters you want to match. You can use any character as the regex delimiter, such as |, as long as you use it instead of the / in all 3 spots.
$ echo '#!/usr/bin/env python' | sed 's|#!/usr/bin/env python|#!/system/python2.7.9|g'
#!/system/python2.7.9
I'm using sed to replace a character in a file with a variable. This variable is basically reading the contents of a file or a webpage which contains multiple hash-like strings like below, which are randomly generated:
define('AUTH_KEY', 'CVo|BO;Qt1B|+GE}+h2/yU7h=5`/wRV{>%h.b_;s%S8-p|>qpf]|/Vf#`&[g~*:&');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '{G2-<^jWRd7]2,?]6hhM^*asg.2C.+k=gf33-m+ZK_{Mt|q*<ELF4|gPjyxtTh!)');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'jSNo9Z;5d]tzZoh-QQ`{M-&~y??$R({:*m`0={67=+mF?L.e+R{;)+4}qCAAHz=C');
define('NONCE_KEY', '19Vt4=%8j/Z-&~ni0S<]9)J^~sy9dh|h9M_RX2#K0]F9+.v+[BP1d&B&}-FTKIJ,');
define('AUTH_SALT', 'jr7f?T|#Cbo]XVAo}N^ilkvD>dC-rr]5{al64|?_Hz }JG$yEi:_aU )Olp YAD+');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'hm#Z%O!X_mr?lM|>>~r-?F%wi R($}|9R[):4^NTsj+gS[qnv}7|+0<9e-$DJjju');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'tyPHBOCkXZh_4H;G|^.&|^#JPB/f;{}y_Orj!6AH?#wovx+KKtTZ A[HMS9SZJ|N');
define('NONCE_SALT', 'Eb-/t 5D-vPV9I--8F<[^lcherGv.g+|7p6;+xP|5g6P}tup1K.vuHAQ=uWZ#}H^');
The variable is defined like so:
KEY=$(cat keyfile)
I used the following sed syntax:
sed -i "s/stringtoreplace/$KEY/" /path/to/file
I've also tried different variations, using single-quotes, quotes around the variables
sed -i "s/stringtoreplace/"$KEY"/" /path/to/file
sed -i "s/stringtoreplace/"${KEY}"/" /path/to/file
sed -i "s/stringtoreplace/'$KEY'/" /path/to/file
I think I "brute-forced" every way possible to put quotes and I don't know how to escape randomly generated characters like those. I keep getting the following error:
unterminated s command
Any suggestions on how to replace the string with the weird-hash-like variable?
sed is an excellent tool for simple substitutions on a single line but for anything else you should use awk:
awk -v key="$KEY" '{sub(/stringtoreplace/,key)}1' file
That will work no matter what characters "$KEY" contains, except for "&".
One possibility is to use bash instead of sed. That makes the substitution easy, but you'll have to emulate the -i option.
Something like this:
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
KEY=$(cat keyfile)
while IFS= read -r LINE; do
echo "${LINE//stringtoreplace/$KEY}"
done </path/to/file >$TMPFILE
mv $TMPFILE /path/to/file
Try this:
KEY=$(cat keyfile | sed -e 's/[]\/()$*.^|[]/\\&/g')
sed -i "s/stringtoreplace/$KEY/" /path/to/file
The problem is that the $KEY variable contains slashes, which are the delimiters for your s command.
sed can do more than search and replace:
sed '/stringtoreplace/{
d
r keyfile
}' /path/to/file
I'm assuming "stringtoreplace" occurs by itself on a line.
I have a large number of words in a text file to replace.
This script is working up until the sed command where I get:
sed: 1: "*.js": invalid command code *
PS... Bash isn't one of my strong points - this doesn't need to be pretty or efficient
cd '/Users/xxxxxx/Sites/xxxxxx'
echo `pwd`;
for line in `cat myFile.txt`
do
export IFS=":"
i=0
list=()
for word in $line; do
list[$i]=$word
i=$[i+1]
done
echo ${list[0]}
echo ${list[1]}
sed -i "s/{$list[0]}/{$list[1]}/g" *.js
done
You're running BSD sed (under OS X), therefore the -i flag requires an argument specifying what you want the suffix to be.
Also, no files match the glob *.js.
This looks like a simple typo:
sed -i "s/{$list[0]}/{$list[1]}/g" *.js
Should be:
sed -i "s/${list[0]}/${list[1]}/g" *.js
(just like the echo lines above)
So myFile.txt contains a list of from:to substitutions, and you are looping over each of those. Why don't you create a sed script from this file instead?
cd '/Users/xxxxxx/Sites/xxxxxx'
sed -e 's/^/s:/' -e 's/$/:/' myFile.txt |
# Output from first sed script is a sed script!
# It contains substitutions like this:
# s:from:to:
# s:other:substitute:
sed -f - -i~ *.js
Your sed might not like the -f - which means sed should read its script from standard input. If that is the case, perhaps you can create a temporary script like this instead;
sed -e 's/^/s:/' -e 's/$/:/' myFile.txt >script.sed
sed -f script.sed -i~ *.js
Another approach, if you don't feel very confident with sed and think you are going to forget in a week what the meaning of that voodoo symbols is, could be using IFS in a more efficient way:
IFS=":"
cat myFile.txt | while read PATTERN REPLACEMENT # You feed the while loop with stdout lines and read fields separated by ":"
do
sed -i "s/${PATTERN}/${REPLACEMENT}/g"
done
The only pitfall I can see (it may be more) is that if whether PATTERN or REPLACEMENT contain a slash (/) they are going to destroy your sed expression.
You can change the sed separator with a non-printable character and you should be safe.
Anyway, if you know whats on your myFile.txt you can just use any.