I want to uncomment a line of a config file by replacing the line %% {some_string, []}, with {some_string, []} in the command line.
I have tried a few different formats using sed:
sed 's/%% {some_string, []},/{some_string, []}/' filename
sed "s/%% {some_string, []},/{some_string, []}/" filename
sed "s/'%% {some_string, []},'/'{some_string, []}'/" filename
sed 's/"%% {some_string, []},"/"{some_string, []}"/' filename
but every time have received the output sed: -e expression #1, char (some number): unterminated s' command
I am assuming it's something to do with my formatting because of my special characters, but can't seem to find any other posts with the same characters that could be causing the issue. I also cannot declare these strings as variables beforehand as I need this to run in the command line.
sed requires you to escape the square brackets.
sed 's/%% {some_string, \[\]},/{some_string, []}/' filename
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I have a fasta file like this:
>rna-XM_00001.1
actact
>rna-XM_00002.1
atcatc
How do I remove the 'rna-' so it become
>XM_00001.1
actact
>XM_00002.1
atcatc
What you're showing is the file contents? Then sed should be able to do this:
sed 's/^>rna-/>/' < inputfile > outputfile
Explanation:
The first character of the command-line to sed is s, which tells sed to do substitution
The / are delimiters
The ^ tells sed to look only at the start of a line
The next >rna- is the pattern to match at the start of a line
The next > is the replacement substituted for the pattern
If, instead, you want to always remove the first four characters after a > as long as they end in -, you could use:
sed 's/^>...-/>/' < inputfile > outputfile
Explanation:
This is similar to above, except the pattern to match at the start of a line is >...-. The pattern is a regexp, where a . matches any single character. So this pattern matches any line starting with >, followed by any three characters, followed by -.
execute PKG_SP_MAINTENANCE.MoveAccount(91, 129031, 958408630); Lowes
From the above statement I am trying to get the content between the first comma and second comma i.e., 129031 and replace it with a new string which is passed as a parameter to the script. For now let's replace with N . I tried the following sed command ended up getting an error. Could someone please help?
04:24:01 Tue Sep 19 [serviceb#LQASRDSBMST002V:~/isops/tmp] cat Navya | sed 's/,^.\{*\},/N/'
sed: -e expression #1, char 14: Invalid content of \{\}
$: echo "start,middle,end" | sed 's/,[^,]*,/,NEW,/g'
start,NEW,end
Is this what you mean? This simply matches the inner-most commas and replaces the text.
Depending how you want to handle strings with more than two commas, you could do something like this to match the outer-most instead:
$: echo "start,middle,end" | sed 's/,.*,/,NEW,/g'
start,NEW,end
I'm trying find and remove strings like:
[1126604244001,85.00], [1122204245002,85.00], [1221104246003,85.00],
[1222204247004,85.00], [1823304248005,85.00], [1424404249006,85.00],
85.00 = constans. I mean [xxxxxxxxxxxxx,85.00],
In notepad++ is simple:
find: "[^........].............,85.00]" and replace:""
I wolud like to use awk or sed to remove string automaticly without importing it to notepad++.
ok, I have file
temp.txt
[1126604244001,17.00], [1126604244001,17.00], [1126604244001,17.00],
[1126604244001,85.00], [1122204245002,85.00], [1221104246003,85.00],
[1222204247004,85.00], [1823304248005,85.00], [1424404249006,85.00], [1126604244001,17.00], [1126604244001,17.00],
My desire output
temp.txt
[1126604244001,17.00],[1126604244001,17.00],[1126604244001,17.00],[1126604244001,17.00],[1126604244001,17.00],
Thx in advance!
With sed, simply:
sed 's/\[[^]]*,85.00\],[[:space:]]*//g' filename
With this, everything that matches the regex \[[^]]*,85.00\],[[:space:]]* is removed. The regex matches [ followed by an arbitrary number of characters that are not ], followed by ,85.00], and optionally spaces; the only syntactically tricky bit is the [^]] character set which matches all characters other than ].
Alternatively with awk:
awk -v RS='],' -v ORS='],' '!/,85.00$/' filename
This splits the input into records delimited by ], and prints only those that don't end with ,85.00.
egrep -v '[^0-9]85\.00]' YourFile
remove (not empty) line with your pattern
How to insert string to the beginning of the last line?
I want to add a time stamp to a text file which contains multiple lines
var1 = `date`
LINE1
LINE2
LINE3
...
(INSERT var1 here) LASTLINE
sed 's/^/test line /g' textfile inserts characters to the beginning of every line but how can I specifically modify the last line only?
Thanks
Going forward:
sed '$s/^/sample text /' textfile works, but only when inserting regular strings. If I try
var1 = "sample text"
and use substition, here are the problems I encounter
using single quotes in sed does not expand variables, so sed '$s/^/$var1/' textfile will insert the string $var1 into the beginning of the last line.
To enable variable substitution I tried using double quotes. It works when I specify the exact line number. something like:
sed "5s/^/$var1/" textfile
But when I try sed "$s/^/$var1" text file, it returns an error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 5: extra characters after command
Can someone help me please?
Like this:
sed '$s/^/test line /' textfile
$ indicates last line. Similarly, you can insert into a any specific line by putting the line number in place of $
But when I try sed "$s/^/$var1" text file, it returns an error:
It returns an error because the shell attempts to expand $s since you've used double quotes. You need to escape the $ in $s.
sed "\$s/^/$var1/" filename
sedshould be the best tool, but awk can do this too:
awk '{a[++t]=$0} END {for (i=1;i<t;i++) print a[i];print v$0}' v="$var1" file
It will insert value of var1 in front of last line
Another variation
awk 'NR==f {$0=v$0}1' v="$var1" f=$(wc -l file)
PS you do not need to specify file after awk, not sure why. If you do so, it reads it double.
This command would work for you:
sed -i "5s/^/$var1 /" text file
My Stress.k file is as follows
180.4430
*INCLUDE
$# filename
*STRESS_INITIALIZATION
*END
I want it to be like
180.4430
*INCLUDE
$# filename
*STRESS_INITIALIZATION
*/home/hassan/534.k
*END
for that I used sed as follows
a="$(cat flow.k)"
sed -i -e '/*END/i \*/home/hassan/$a.k ' Stress.k
where flow.k has only a single number like 534.k or something . Here sed put the line before END but it doesn't take the value of a , instead it puts the same alphabet and it doesn't understand $a.k.
Please also tell me how to delete the second last line or the line with a string hassan for example so that I can delete it first and the for the next step I use it to enter my required line.
if possible please also suggest the alternatives.
best regards
bash variables are only replaced when in double quotes, e.g.
sed -i -e "/*END/i \*/home/hassan/$a.k " Stress.k
Use double quotes to allow the variable to be expanded.
sed -i -e "/*END/i \*/home/hassan/$a.k " Stress.k
To replace the string, do it as you read in the file:
a=$(sed 's/534/100/' flow.k)
To delete a line:
sed '/hassan/d' inputfile
To read a file into the stream after the current line:
sed '/foo/r filename' inputfile