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Match multiple vars across two lines and delete entire entry
MATCH1.MATCH2 { always same MATCH3 } All three MATCH(es) must match. input: foo.bar { always same bus } 1.2 { always same 3 } a.b { always same c } i.ii { always same iii } b.2 { ...
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Use sed to replace only part of a string
I'm trying to replace bobearl with jim in the following string "billy" "bobearl" and "johnny" I can do something like this: sed 's/bob/jim/' /tmp/text.txt "billy&...
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Loop ip list through geoiplookup and delete lines that do not match criteria
Thanks in advance for any ideas you present. My current project has me trying to loop a file containing a list of 1000's of IP addresses through geoiplookup and piping it to sed to delete all lines ...
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removing braces statements containing nested braces inside
A typical latex problem: \SomeStyle{\otherstyle{this is the \textit{nested part} some more text...}} Now I want to remove all \SomeStyle{...} but not the content. Content contains nested braces. The ...
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How do I merge bottom line with previous line? [duplicate]
I have a pretty basic file; 15 Chapter name some text and some more text some text and some more text I was trying to get something like this Book: 15 Chapter name some text and some more text some ...
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BSD sed/awk moving portion of line to line above (switching attribute in HTML file)
My situation is simple : I have an HTML file with several lines containing only the indented <section> block tag, each line followed by an (also indented) <h3 id="YYYY">...</...
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How to insert text before the first line of an UTF-8 with BOM file
This question is closely related to: How to insert text before the first line of a file?. I deliberately made the title similar to that question to highlight this. Except the target file is UTF-8 with ...
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Printing a specific section everytime search results are matched
I have a pretty basic text file on a Linux machine that has stuff like Chapters, Dialogues and References. This is what it looks like Chapter: 1 One: Birds and Trees Birds are beautiful and trees ...
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How to use sed to replace ID's in a file with names from a different file?
I'd like help writing a sed command to replace the ID's in one file with names from a different file. I have a file that looks like this: a b nSites J9 0 1 3092845 1 0 2 3139733 1 0 3 ...
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Move line matching string to top of the file
Need to move single line with PRM:TRG keyword to top of the file using sed File content: FOOBAR:SCN:NO_TRG FIZZBAR:SCN:NO_TRG BEBAR:PRM:TRG Output expected: BEBAR:PRM:TRG FOOBAR:SCN:NO_TRG FIZZBAR:...
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sed: To match a newline and spaces
I have a following file: <head> <title>this is a title</title> <style> here goes a style sheet </style> </head> I need to strip the <title> element ...
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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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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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Add \t to jq resulted array extraction
I want to add \t before each element in the resulting jq array and this is for formatting purposes as the result will get added to a file. here is the json file: { "array": ["...
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How can I replace the last occurrence of " before ] (text-manipulation)
I'm doing some text manipulation and I want to replace the last occurrence of " (with ", "four") before ] which could be in different lines. (this essentially adds a new item in ...
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