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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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Find and replace in CudaText editor
So I have dump from U-boot and I need to replace specific string in CudaText editor. Here is mine text e101b1e0: 30ef27d8 e792f415 9beea618 5c601de4 .'.0..........`\ e101b1f0: aeaf9d25 e1dd63e9 ...
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Merge two two-column files based on a common first column prefering values from the second column of a given file
I have two text files 1.txt and 2.txt that contain two tab separated columns. The first column of both files consists of tokenized text. In both files, the first column is the same. The word order ...
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How to replace all matched strings in the files recursively?
There are about 50 HTML/js files in the folder name site, some of the files contain (below lines are combined from files) {"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:4542\/?page_id=854"} ...
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awk print only modified lines
I have file like this d1000 1000 d1001 100 d1002 10 d1003 1 I want to modify second column where length is not equal 4. But I want to print only lines that are modified, so original text in column 2 ...
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How can I replace a character within a specific context in each line of the whole file?
I have a large file which contains hundreds of English phrases in the following form: \phrase {. . . * * } {I shoul-d've stayed home.} {aɪ ʃʊd‿əv ˈsteɪd ˈhoʊm.} <- only replace on ...
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Replace hyphen(s) with underscore(s) within angle brackets in a file
I’m aware of how to replace string; e.g., replace hyphen with underscore in a file. However, I wish to replace all hyphens with underscore for all text that falls within angle brackets in a given file....
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How to substitute non printable characters with space character in a file
I have read nearly every answer about this topic on this website or Stackoverflow but didn't manage to solve the issue below. When I copy the text from a PDF file and paste it into a text file file....
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How to search and replace text in files but keep/reuse a certain part of text?
I want to refactor many JavaScript files in many directories which contain access to an object in this format: myObj.something.somethingElse and I want it to be myObj.getSomething(somethingElse) how ...
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Alternative to sed -i that does not write temporary files
I have several scripts that edit template text files, by removing a "tag" and replacing it with e.g. a number. To do this I use the sed -i command. However, I have an issue with write/read ...
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replace string from left to right in a line
I want to search and replace the negative values with the value just before it. The values are separated by comma. Example: ocv_sigma_cell_rise(table_7) { sigma_type : early_and_late; values(&...
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Replace several consecutive lines with a single line using sed
In all my python scripts, I'd like to replace the 2 consecutive lines import matplotlib as mpl mpl.style.use(mpl_plt_default_template) with just the line plt.style.use(mpl_plt_default_template) So ...
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replace a particular text after N-th occurrence of a character
I want to replace the numbers in below file with #Mi. Only for numbers after the 10th occurrence of " (double quote) Input File "col1" "col2" "col3" "col4" ...
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How to replace text between quotation marks with something from another file?
I have the following kind of text: $OU = 'or'; $DINHEIRO_CAIXA = 'Cash balance'; $PAGINA = 'Page'; $DE = 'from'; $ENVIAR = 'Send'; $PRINCIPAL = 'Main'; I've already got all the text within the single ...
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Using sed to replace substrings between specific tags
I want to combine two sed command in one and really don't know how to do it, I've tried multiple things without success. For the result I want all slash between a specific tag to be replaced with ...
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