Re: sed question!

2017-02-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Feb2017 20:06, bruce wrote: Got a quick sed question now.. test file:: head -2 sed.dat 228d98f0_f16a_11e6_9544_1ad613f05f7b,1486934882 22b93712_f16a_11e6_a6ad_1ad613f05f7b,1486934883 I always say "sed 2q" instead of "head -2", myself. want to simply truncate/searc

Re: sed question!

2017-02-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 08:06:28PM -0500, bruce wrote: > Hey guys. > > Thanks for the delete replies.. > > Got a quick sed question now.. > > test file:: > head -2 sed.dat > 228d98f0_f16a_11e6_9544_1ad613f05f7b,1486934882 > 22b93712_f16a_11e6_a6ad_1ad613f05f7b,

Re: sed question!

2017-02-12 Thread Steve Forsythe
On 02/12/2017 08:06 PM, bruce wrote: > Hey guys. > > Thanks for the delete replies.. > > Got a quick sed question now.. > > test file:: > head -2 sed.dat > 228d98f0_f16a_11e6_9544_1ad613f05f7b,1486934882 > 22b93712_f16a_11e6_a6ad_1ad613f05f7b,1486934883 >

Re: sed question!

2017-02-12 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm a awk user. cat sed.dat | awk -F"," '{print $1}' or awk -F"," '{print $1}' sed.dat On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:06 PM, bruce wrote: > Hey guys. > > Thanks for the delete replies.. > > Got a quick sed question now.. > > tes

Re: sed question!

2017-02-12 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 08:06:28PM -0500, bruce wrote: > Hey guys. > > Thanks for the delete replies.. > > Got a quick sed question now.. > > test file:: > head -2 sed.dat > 228d98f0_f16a_11e6_9544_1ad613f05f7b,1486934882 > 22b93712_f16a_11e6_a6ad_1ad613f05f7b,

Re: sed question!

2017-02-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/12/2017 05:06 PM, bruce wrote: the following isn't working sed -i 's/\,+$//' sed.da That would remove one or more commas, if they immediately precede the end of the line. You mean: sed 's/,.*$//' or: cut -f1 -d, ___ users mailing list

sed question!

2017-02-12 Thread bruce
Hey guys. Thanks for the delete replies.. Got a quick sed question now.. test file:: head -2 sed.dat 228d98f0_f16a_11e6_9544_1ad613f05f7b,1486934882 22b93712_f16a_11e6_a6ad_1ad613f05f7b,1486934883 want to simply truncate/search/replace the end of each line starting with the ",&qu

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread R. G. Newbury
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:00:44 -0400 From: bruce Subject: sed question Hey guys.. Sed question.. should be simple, but after stack/net searches, lots or trials.. can't seem to get it.. I've got a case any thoughts on how to handle the parens would be cool! just irks me that

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 08:00:44AM -0400, bruce wrote: > Hey guys.. > > Sed question.. should be simple, but after stack/net searches, lots or > trials.. can't seem to get it.. > > I've got a case > > foo('txt') > foo("txt") >

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread bruce
thanks.. guys.. just a brain screwup.. should be ok now.. thanks for the eyeballs.. owe you guys oj! On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Tethys wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:00 PM, bruce wrote: > > > Now. I do a simple sed search/replace if it just focuses on the txt, but > > crafting a

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread Tethys
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:00 PM, bruce wrote: > Now. I do a simple sed search/replace if it just focuses on the txt, but > crafting a sed that uses the entire input as a search due to the parens '()' > is a bit painful! Doing the sed using the \( for the ( wasn't quite > successful! localhost:~

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread Tom Rivers
On 7/21/2016 8:26 AM, bruce wrote: Hey Tudor, and others.. The test sed I posted works for doing a search/replace of the text inside the parens... > foo('txt') > foo("txt") however.. if i wanted to craft a sed that uses the entire >>foo('txt')<< as the search.. then I run into the need to h

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread bruce
hey todor.. I'll give it a try.. I was thinking it's the parens.. overlooked the fact that i introduced '/' in the replace.. which might have caused issue.. but the '/' was successful in the test with just the text inside the ().. On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Todor Petkov wrote: > On Th

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread Todor Petkov
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:26 PM, bruce wrote: > Hey Tudor, and others.. > > The test sed I posted works for doing a search/replace of the text inside > the parens... > >> foo('txt') >> foo("txt") > > however.. if i wanted to craft a sed that uses the entire >>foo('txt')<< as > the search.. then I

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread bruce
need to handle the parens.. and that's the issue.. this doesn't work sed -i 's/foo('txt')/foo('/dir1/txt') /' *files.dat sed -i 's/foo\('txt'\)/foo\('/dir1/txt'\)/' *files.dat thanks On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:14 AM,

Re: sed question

2016-07-21 Thread Todor Petkov
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:00 PM, bruce wrote: > Hey guys.. > > Sed question.. should be simple, but after stack/net searches, lots or > trials.. can't seem to get it.. > > I've got a case > > foo('txt') > foo("txt") > > I'd

sed question

2016-07-21 Thread bruce
Hey guys.. Sed question.. should be simple, but after stack/net searches, lots or trials.. can't seem to get it.. I've got a case foo('txt') foo("txt") I'd like to have foo('/dir1/txt') foo("/dir1/txt") Now. I do a simple sed search/re

Re: sed question??

2015-06-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Jun2015 21:53, bruce wrote: Evening.. Morning... As a test, the following is an attempt to replace "text" from a test file with "text" from an external file. aa=$(cat www1.txt) BTW, this can be written: aa=$(< www1.txt) sed -i "s*#\tISSUES/NOTES::*$aa*g" foo.py1 When I check the

sed question??

2015-06-06 Thread bruce
Evening.. As a test, the following is an attempt to replace "text" from a test file with "text" from an external file. aa=$(cat www1.txt) sed -i "s*#\tISSUES/NOTES::*$aa*g" foo.py1 When I check the foo.py1 file, I get "$aa" in the file, instead of the replacement text. The test is using replace