Questions tagged [sed]
sed is a command-line stream editor for filtering and transforming text.
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Writing to HTML file at a specific part using php
I am trying to write to a specific part of a HTML file using PHP with sed or awk or any other way.
I want to add some text before </article>
The following code I have does not work
exec(“sed -i ‘...
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Delete 2-line paragraphs, keep 3-line paragraphs, maintain newline between all
On a Linux machine with GNU tools I have an ascii file that consists of only 2-line and 3-line paragraphs, each paragraph separated by a newline. All 2-line paragraphs are to be deleted so that all 3-...
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Use sed to insert a character in an xml file
I have an xml file with content following this format:
<type:color>000000</type:color>
<type:color>FFFFFF</type:color>
The information within the tags are hex colors (many ...
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What does '\($*\)' mean in sed regular expression in a makefile?
I encounter the following sed command in make's manual.
sed 's,\($*\)\.o[ :]*,\1.o $@ : ,g'
And it has the following effect (this is an example in the manual):
main.o : main.c defs.h
# is turned into:...
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Need to make multiple multiline replacements in file
I have a file with multiple "paragraphs" like this:
<type>TRANS</type>
<attributes/>
<specification_method>rep_name</specification_method>
<trans_object_id/&...
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Sed command listing all lines between pattern including the final line
I have a file similar to below.
[object_category=file]
filesystem = enabled
[object_category=registry]
registry = enabled
[privilege_id=SeAuditPrivilege]
audit = enabled
[privilege_id=...
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Convert timestamp to new format using SED
I have a giant .md file with a series of entries that represent the date like so:
[2024/06/10 10:03 PM]
However, I need to alter all of these so they now appear like so:
20240610.
Thinking through ...
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cleaning up full directories at once
right now, i have a filesystem that fills up fairly regularly. the TL;DR is that I can't introduce better log rotation, and the files must be deleted regularly.
let's say i have the following output ...
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Cut and replace Nth character on every row
I have predictable piped input, I want to iterate over each row and change two characters. the character positions are 19 and 20 (on every row.) The 19th character is a comma, I want to cut that. The ...
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regular single column data to multiple rows
source data
KKK-SNMImsi: 444444
KKK-SNMUserProfileId: KKK-SNMDefaultAutomaticProfile
KKK-SNMMmeAddress: TDSGSN01
KKK-SNMMsisdn: 44235682436
KKK-SNMLocationState: LOCATED
KKK-SNMRoamingAllowed: FALSE
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How can UserA programmatically replace a text string within a file they own that's located in /etc?
A non-root linux user owns a text file that's located in /etc, where the non-root linux user does not have permission to create files. The non-root linux user can edit the file manually via vi without ...
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Proxy between UNIX socket with socat
I used socal to create a proxy server between 2 UNIX sockets: /var/a.sock , /var/b.sock
client -> /var/a.sock -> MY_COMMAND -> /var/b.sock -> MY_COMMAND -> /var/a.sock ->client.
The ...
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Bash: sum a number present in N lines before a given pattern
I have a kdenlive project file (which is basically a xml file) with a lot of text clips inside. I need to bulk edit the x coordinate of a certain text that appears multiple times. This is an example:
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sed in conjuction with xargs and grep not working
I'm trying to change a string in multiple text files (configurations migrated to other user). I used this command:
grep -iIlr "/home/user/.local" | xargs sed -i 's/\/home\/user\/\.local/~\/\....
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Extract YouTube video IDs from the end of filenames
I downloaded some files from YouTube a while back with the YouTube IDs in their names. My problem is that some IDs contain a character that also marks the beginning of the ID itself.
$ ls *.mp4 | head ...
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