I am trying to replace softtabs with hardtabs in sed. I have tried the following but to no avail:
sed -i 's/ /\t/g' path/to/file
What am I doing wrong?
It appears what I was looking for was the unexpand command.
unexpand -a -t4 file > newfile
If you have a file like this where all space is spaces and not tabs:
cat file
test more data
here are more
You can use
sed 's/ */\t/g'
or
sed -r 's/ +/\t/g'
and get
test more data
here are more
Where it now have changed multiple spaces to tab
Related
I'd like to remove any characters between including them also
<img src=\"/wp-content/uploads/9e580e68ed249dec8fc0e668da78d170.jpg\" / hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"0\" align=\"left\">
I was trying
sed -i -e 's/<img src.*align=\\"left\\">//g' file
You do not say what version of sed you are using, or what shell.
With GNU sed and bash, your attempt was almost there. Try:
sed -i 's/<img src[^>]*align=\\"left\\">//g' file
Explanation:
s/<img src[^>]*align=\\"left\\">/ search for <img src_STUFF_align=\"left\">, where _STUFF_ cannot contain any >
// and replace it with nothing
/g and continue
-i and modify the file
I believe this should work with most version of sed (except for the -i).
I'm trying to replace the text using the sed, but it's showing some error. Not getting where I'm getting wrong.
sed -i 's/process.env.REDIRECT_URI/http:\/\/test-domain.apps.io/\callback/g' input.txt
Have this :
process.env.REDIRECT_URI
Replace this with :
http://test-domain.apps.io
Try:
sed -i 's/process.env.REDIRECT_URI/http:\/\/test-domain.apps.io/g' input.txt
Notes:
The original command has a spurious string /\callback. All that was needed to make the code work was to remove it.
. is a wildcard. If you want to be sure that you are matching periods, they should be escaped:
sed -i 's/process\.env\.REDIRECT_URI/http:\/\/test-domain.apps.io/g' input.txt
Sometimes, its clearer if one doesn't have to escape /. One can use a separator of one's choice. For example, use #:
sed -i 's#process\.env\.REDIRECT_URI#http://test-domain.apps.io#g' input.txt
If you did want /callback in the output, use:
sed -i 's/process\.env\.REDIRECT_URI/http:\/\/test-domain.apps.io\/callback/g' input.txt
or:
sed -i 's#process\.env\.REDIRECT_URI#http://test-domain.apps.io/callback#g' input.txt
I have the following line in a file:
$app-assets:"/assets/";
I am trying to use sed in the terminal to overwrite that line to read as follows:
$app-assets:"http://www.example.com/assets/";
I have tried the following but it does not work:
sed -i \'\' -e \'s/app-assets:"/assets/"/app-assets:"http://www.example.com/assets/"/g\' myfile.txt
I am fine using Perl if easier.
Use the following sed approach:
sed -i 's~\(\$app-assets:"\)\(/assets/\)"~\1http://www.example.com\2"~' myfile.txt
~ here is treated as sed subcommand separator
sed 's/app-assets:\"\/assets\/\";/app-assets:\"http:\/\/www\.example\.com\/assets\/\";/g' filename
I'm requesting help with a very simple script...
#!/usr/bin/sed -f
sed '/11,yahoo/d'
sed '/2506,stackover flow/d'
sed '/2536,reddit/d'
Just need it to remove three matches that account for 18408 in my file, data.csv
% sed -f remove.sed < data.csv
sed: 3: remove.sed: unterminated substitute pattern
Doing these same lines individually is no problem at all, so what am I doing wrong with this?
Using freeBSD 10.1 and its implementation of sed, if that matters.
This, being a sed script, should not have "sed" at each line.
Either change it to:
#!/usr/bin/sed -f
/11,yahoo/d
/2506,stackover flow/d
/2536,reddit/d
Or to
#!/bin/sh
sed -e /11,yahoo/d \
-e /2506,stackover flow/d \
-e /2536,reddit/d
I have values in a file like this ' value-to-remove '(without the ' characters). I want to use sed to run through the file and replace the values including the space before and after. I am running this via a bash script.
How can I do this?
The sed command I'm using at the moment replaces the values but leaves behind the two spaces.
sed -i 's/ '$value' / /g' test.conf
In script I have
sed -i -e 's/\s'$DOMAIN'-'$SITE'\s/\s/g' gitosis.conf
echoed as
sed -i -e s/\sffff.com-eeee\s/\s/g test.conf
Not working though.
IMHO your sed does not know '\s', so use [ \t], and use double quotes, otherwise your variables will not expand. e.g.:
sed -i -e "s/[ \t]'$DOMAIN'-'$SITE'[ \t]/ /g" gitosis.conf
Let me know if this is what you need
echo 'Some values to remove value-to-remove and more' | sed -e 's/\svalue-to-remove\s/CHANGED/g'
output: Some values to removeCHANGEDand more