i want to inset multi lines befor last line in the file
that using sed , used the following sed attr
> sed -i '/\/web-app/r web.xml' inputerror.txt
last line in the file
</web-app>
inputerror.txt content as following
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/web/404</location>
</error-page>
nothing added to my web.xml any advise here
The following works in GNU sed:
sed '$s#^#<error-page>\n <error-code>404</error-code>\n <location>/web/404</location>\n</error-page>\n#' web.xml
But I don't know how portable \n is or how to make it read from a file.
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I am looking for non printable characters into a file, and I found this web page.
It shows the following command:
sed "l" file
If I am not mistaken, according to man, this option is:
List out the current line in a ''visually unambiguous'' form.
Moreover, when I run this command on a fake file with one line, the output is as follow:
The line is displayed twice, but each displayed line (in the output) contains at most 69 bytes of the input line. The rest of the line is displayed at the next line.
The second time the line is displayed, it is in its full length.
fake file
toto, titi, tatafdsfdsfdgfgfdsgrgdfgzfdgzgffgerssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Command
sed "l" fake_file
output
$ sed "l" fake_file
toto, titi, tatafdsfdsfdgfgfdsgrgdfgzfdgzgffgerssssssssssssssssssssss\
ssss$
toto, titi, tatafdsfdsfdgfgfdsgrgdfgzfdgzgffgerssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Questions
What does ''visually unambiguous'' exactly mean ?
Why is the output like this ? I was expecting only one line with the $ sign at the end. I was also not expecting output to be displayed on 69 bytes max.
Environment
Tested with same output on:
sed (GNU sed) 4.7
sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
By default, sed outputs the result after processing a line. If you handle the output yourself, tell sed not to output the line by the -n switch.
I would request some help with a basic shell script that should do the following job.
File a particular word from a given file (file path is always constant)
Backup the file
Delete the specific word or replace the word with ;
Save the file changes
Example
File Name - abc.cfg
Contains the following lines
network;private;Temp;Windows;System32
I've used the following SED command for the operation
sed -i -e "/Temp;/d" abc.cfg
The output is not as expected. The complete line is removed instead of just the word Temp;
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
sed matches against lines, and /d is the delete directive, which is why you get a deleted line. Instead, use substitution to replace the offending word with nothing:
sed 's/Temp;//g' abc.cfg
The /g modifier means "globlal", in case the offending word appears more than once. I would hold off on the -i (inline) flag until you are sure of your command, in general, or use -i .backup.
Thank you. I used your suggestion but couldn't get through. I appreciate the input though.
I was able to achieve this using the following SED syntax
sed -e "s/Temp//g" -i.backup abc.cfg
I wanted to take the backup before the change & hence -i was helpful.
I am desperately trying to replace certain unicode characters (graphemes) from a file using sed. However I keep failing for some of them, namely the ones from unicode blocks:
\p{InHigh_Surrogates}: U+D800–U+DB7F
\p{InHigh_Private_Use_Surrogates}: U+DB80–U+DBFF
\p{InLow_Surrogates}: U+DC00–U+DFFF
I tried (in a sed config file loaded via the -f switch):
s/\p{InHigh_Surrogates}/###/ --> no effect at all
s/\\p\{InHigh_Surrogates\}/###_D-NON-UTF8_###/ -> error message 'Invalid content of \{\}'
Anybody got a suggestion? Also, I am not necessarily focused on using the blocks - but I also failed trying to define a character range of the form \xd800-\xdfff.
Thanks,
Thomas
Try using the -r flag for sed:
$ sed -r 's/\\p\{InHigh_Surrogates\}/###/g' file
###: U+D800–U+DB7F
\p{InHigh_Private_Use_Surrogates}: U+DB80–U+DBFF
\p{InLow_Surrogates}: U+DC00–U+DFFF
From man sed:
-r, --regexp-extended
use extended regular expressions in the script.
I want to replace a URL present in an html file for the shortcut icon, using c. I use sed to replace the url but the command is giving an error as it can't read the icon even if the icon is present at the specified location.
If I manually replace the URL, it's working fine.
My command is:
sed -i '/<link id=/c\\<link id='test' rel='shortcut icon' href='path_of_icon' type='image/x-icon'/>' path_of_html_file
sed -i "s|<link id=|<link id='test' rel='shortcut icon' href='path_of_icon' type='image/x-icon'|" path_of_html_file
You use only ' so shell mix content and interpretation
you forget the first s for replacment order
you use / as separtor of pattern but /is also in your pattern
If you want to use sed 'change' command to replace whole line containing "link id=..." then why not putting it into a script file and source via -f ? That would help with quoting issue (I believe your error is due to quoting, as already mentioned):
s.sed:
/<link id=/c\
<link id='test' rel='shortcut icon' href='path_of_icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
then
sed -i -f s.sed path_of_html_file
It's perfectly possible doing that on command line, but everything that deals with quotes inside other quotes can get pretty much ugly on a cmdline.
I need to make a change in the php.ini configuration file via sed (or similar).
I need to add the following text:
extension=solr.so
The line has to be added as line number 941 in the configuration file. However, if the file is already there, it should not be added again.
I guess there are two approaches: 1) replace line 941 with the text, or 2) search for the text and add it to line 941 if there are not matches.
I have the following command that works fine, except that the line is added again if the script is run again:
sed '941i\
extension=solr.so' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini > /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
How can I make sure that this command does not add the line if it is already there?
The easiest way would be to test before using grep, for example:
grep -q -e 'extension=solr.so' file || sed '...'
Also, it is estrange that you need exactly that line. You should add it at the end, or something like that.
Also, note that taking the same file as input and output never should be done. This can damage the file badly. You should be using the -i sed parameter to do in-place editing.