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How to find/replace and increment a matched number with sed/awk?
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Closed 4 years ago.
Suppose I have the following Bash script:
#!/bin/bash
INCREMENT_BY=5
sed 's/20000/&+$INCREMENT_BY/g' old > new
I expect all occurrences of 20000 to be replaced by 20005, but instead they are replaced with 20000+$INCREMENT_BY. How can I make this work?
You should use double quote for eval variable, like:
sed "s/20000/$(( $INCREMENT_BY + 2000))/g" old
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Extract substring in Bash
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Closed 6 years ago.
How to retrieve the first 10 characters of a variable with Bash?
FOO="qwertzuiopasdfghjklyxcvbnm"
I need to get qwertzuiop.
If the variable is: FOO="qwertzuiopasdfghjklyxcvbnm"
then
echo ${FOO:0:10}
will give the first 10 characters.
Use the head command.
echo $FOO | head -c 10
=> qwertzuiop
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Bash : extracting part of a string
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Closed 6 years ago.
Say I have a string 0.0.25, how do I delete the last part after dot (including it) to make it like 0.0? Note that last part can have variable number of digits.
In bash you can do the following:
echo "${var%.*}"
See the Shell Parameter Expansion section of the manual.
Using awk you could:
echo "0.0.25" | awk -F. '{print $1"."$2}'
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How to replace to apostrophe ' inside a file using SED
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Closed 7 years ago.
I'm trying to replace two words with one in a file.
sed 's/will not/ain't/g' codes_word
The above doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?
replace ' with "
output
shEll$ echo "Hello World!" | sed "s/World/ain't/g"
Hello ain't!
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How do I use a new-line replacement in a BSD sed?
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Closed 7 years ago.
sed '/^;date.timezone =/!b;:a;n;//ba;i\date.timezone = Europe/London' /etc/php.ini
You can probably guess Im creating a script for setting up LAMP servers.
In the above example the text is not replaced but instead the changes are displayed on the console.
I my goal was to insert date.timezone = Europe/London the last occurence of ;date.timezone =
Etan Reisner:
You aren't using the -i flag to tell sed to modify in place.
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sed substitution with Bash variables
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Closed 7 years ago.
How can I do this?
sed -i 's/wiki_host/$host_name/g' /root/bin/sync
It will replace wiki_host with the text $host_name.
But I want to replace it with the content of the variable..
I tried it with
sed -i 's/wiki_host/${host_name}/g' /root/bin/sync
It doesn't work either.
You need to use double quotes:
$ sed -i "s/wiki_host/${host_name}/g" /root/bin/sync
Your single quotes prevent the shell variable from being replaced with its contents.