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I have a csv like this
titlemmmm;fff;ggg
mmmm;fff;ggg
mmmm;fff;ggg
I need to replace for obtain this
titlemmmm*fff*ggg
mmmm;fff;ggg
mmmm;fff;ggg
how I could do this
Please help me
You can use this:
sed '/title/s/;/*/g' file.txt
Or if you only want to match "title" at the beginning of a line:
sed '/^title/s/;/*/g' file.txt
If you want to edit the file in place, without needing to direct the output to a new file, you can use the -i option:
sed -i '/^title/s/;/*/g' file.txt
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I have a csv file and I am trying to substitute the last letter for a word...
The input is
1111;AAA;... (more columns);A1a;A
2222;XXX;... (more columns);T3g;B
... (more rows)
...(more rows)
4564;AdA;... (more columns);G1a;A
33321;B1X; ... (more columns);T3g;B
And I want to replace A for "Avocado" and B for "Banana"...
I tried
#sed -e "s/;A$/;C/g" file.csv
But doesn't work, any advice, please?
Is the following what you're trying to achieve?
tink#host:~/tmp$ sed 's/A$/Avocado/;s/B$/Banana/' file.csv
1111;AAA;... (more columns);A1a;Avocado
2222;XXX;... (more columns);T3g;Banana
... (more rows)
...(more rows)
4564;AdA;... (more columns);G1a;Avocado
33321;B1X; ... (more columns);T3g;Banana
If that looks correct, and you want to change in-file, add a -i to sed.
If you want a new file, add a > new_file to the end of the line.
This seems to work:
sed -i 's/A$/Avocado$/g' file.csv
sed -i 's/B$/Banana$/g' file.csv
The -i replaces the text and the Regex doesn't need the ; because it should use only one character, right? Therefore, one can just specify that character and replace it with a whole word.
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I have a text file with many redundancies in English, one on each line, for example
in excess of
in order to
in order for
...
I would like to search another text document to see if it contains any of these phrases. If it does all it need do is print the phrase, I can do the rest manually. Can I do this easily on the command line?
sure - try grep
grep -F -f phrases.txt doc.txt
phrases.txt
in excess of
in order to
in order for
doc.txt
use grep -f in order to match this line
this line won't be matched
you can use grep -o to only print the matched phrase - not the entire line:
$ grep -o -F -f phrases.txt doc.txt
in order to
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I have a file which contains URL's separated by new lines.
After each URL, I would like to insert the literal character "\n".
How can I do so?
sed -i.BAK 's/$/\\n/' files
perl -i.BAK -pe 's/$/\\n/' files
check this example:
kent$ seq 5|sed 's/$/\\n/'
1\n
2\n
3\n
4\n
5\n
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I am trying to insert NA between every occurrence of two tab characters immediately following each other in a text file. How can I do it with a sed command?
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed ':a;s/\t\t/\tNA\t/g;ta' file
This covers all occurrances of \t\t throughout a file
Or if you prefer:
sed 's/\t\t/\tNA\t/g;s//\tNA\t/g' file
Like this:
sed 's/xx/xNAx/g' file
where you type x using Control-V TAB
Or, if you have GNU sed, you can type:
sed 's/\t\t/\tNA\t/g' file
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Here is a text file containing many words,each is separated by space breaks or line breaks.
Now I want to add a character,like "#" "$" "#" in front of each of them,
and I found doing this job one by one will take too much time,
are there any better ways,in bash?
Try using sed
sed -r 's/([^ ]+)/#\1/g' file
Or more concisely,
sed -r 's/[^ ]+/#&/g' file
Sample input
abc def pqr-stu xyz
Output
#abc #def #pqr-stu #xyz
Using sed, you could say:
sed 's/\b\w/#&/g' inputfile
This would append # before every word.