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
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I have this content in a file where I want to replace spaces at certain positions with pipe symbol (|). I used sed for this, but it is replacing all the spaces in the string. But I don't want to replace the space for the 3rd and 4th string.
How to achieve this?
Input:
test test test test
My attempt:
sed -e 's/ /|/g file.txt
Expected Output:
test|test|test test
Actual Output:
test|test|test|test
sed 's/ /\
/3;y/\n / |/'
As newline cannot appear in a sed pattern space, you can change the third space to a newline, then change all newlines and spaces to spaces and pipes.
GNU sed can use \n in the replacement text:
sed 's/ /\n/3;y/\n / |/'
If the original input doesn't contain any pipe characters, you can do
sed -e 's/ /|/g' -e 's/|/ /3' file
to retain the third white space. Otherwise see other answers.
You could replace the 'first space' twice, e.g.
sed -e 's/ /|/' -e 's/ /|/' file.txt
Or, if you want to specify the positions (e.g. the 2nd and 1st spaces):
sed -e 's/ /|/2' -e 's/ /|/1' file.txt
Using GNU sed to replace the first and second one or more whitespace chunks:
sed -i -E 's/\s+/|/;s/\s+/|/' file
See the online demo.
Details
-i - inline replacements on
-E - POSIX ERE syntax enabled
s/\s+/|/ - replaces the first one or more whitespace chars
; - and then
s/\s+/|/ the second one or more whitespace chars on each line (if present).
Keep it simple and use awk, e.g. using any awk in any shell on every Unix box no matter what other characters your input contains:
$ awk '{for (i=1;i<NF;i++) sub(/ /,"|")} 1' file
test|test|test test
The above replaces all but the last " " on each line. If you want to replace a specific number, e.g. 2, then just change NF to 2.
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
sed inplace change on a file is not working inside Make object.
I want to replace a line in a file with sed called in a make object. But it does not seem to be working. How can I fix this?
change_generics:
ifeq ($(run_TESTNAME), diagnostics)
ifeq ($(run_TESTCASE), 1)
sed -i -e "s/SIM_MULTI\==[a-z,A-Z]*/SIM_MULTI=TRUE/" ./generics.f
else ifeq ($(TESTCASE), 2)
sed -i -e "s/SIM_MISSED\==[a-z,A-Z]*/SIM_MISSED=TRUE/" ./generics.f
endif
endif
I would like the generics.f file changed with that one line change. But it remains the same as the original. The sed command works outside make.
I can't reproduce this using GNU sed 4.2.2 and GNU make 3.82, or at least, I can't reproduce any scenario where the same sed command works from the command line but not in a Makefile.
Simpler Makefile:
all:
# Contrived just so I can test your 2 sed commands.
sed -i -e "s/SIM_MULTI\==[a-z,A-Z]*/SIM_MULTI=TRUE/" ./generics.f
sed -i -e "s/SIM_MISSED\==[a-z,A-Z]*/SIM_MISSED=TRUE/" ./generics.f
Sample file content in generics.f:
SIM_MULTI=foo
SIM_MISSED=bar
Testing:
$ make all
sed -i -e "s/SIM_MULTI\==[a-z,A-Z]*/SIM_MULTI=TRUE/" ./generics.f
sed -i -e "s/SIM_MISSED\==[a-z,A-Z]*/SIM_MISSED=TRUE/" ./generics.f
Confirmed that both sed commands fail to edit a file with this content.
To fix:
Probably, you need to simply remove the \= from your regular expression. The backslash there has no effect, and causes your regex to simply match two equals signs ==. Thus this works:
all:
sed -i 's/SIM_MULTI=[a-zA-Z]*/SIM_MULTI=TRUE/' ./generics.f
sed -i 's/SIM_MISSED=[a-zA-Z]*/SIM_MISSED=TRUE/' ./generics.f
Testing:
$ make all
sed -i 's/SIM_MULTI=[a-zA-Z]*/SIM_MULTI=TRUE/' ./generics.f
sed -i 's/SIM_MISSED=[a-zA-Z]*/SIM_MISSED=TRUE/' ./generics.f
$ cat generics.f
SIM_MULTI=TRUE
SIM_MISSED=TRUE
Further explanation:
There is no need to specify -e there.
There is no need to enclose the script in double quotes, which is riskier because it allows the contents to be modified by the shell.
The bug appears to be \= and I deleted those characters, as mentioned above.
Note that I removed the comma , as well in [a-z,A-Z]. I think that probably isn't what you meant, and it would cause a class of characters including a-z, A-Z and a comma , to be matched by the regex. (And if it is what you mean, you might consider writing it as [a-zA-Z,] as that would be less confusing.)
If this has not resolved your issue, I would need to know things like:
What is the version of your sed.
What is the contents in generics.f.
POSIX/GNU sed have c for "change":
sed -i '/SIM_MULTI=/c\SIM_MULTI=TRUE'
sed -i '/SIM_MISSED=/c\SIM_MISSED=TRUE'
I'm trying to copy part of a line to append to the end:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/900/169/985/GCA_900169985.1_IonXpress_024_genomic.fna.gz
becomes:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/900/169/985/GCA_900169985.1/GCA_900169985_IonXpress_024_genomic.fna.gz
I have tried:
sed 's/\(.*(GCA_\)\(.*\))/\1\2\2)'
$ f1=$'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/900/169/985/GCA_900169985.1_IonXpress_024_genomic.fna.gz'
$ echo "$f1"
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/900/169/985/GCA_900169985.1_IonXpress_024_genomic.fna.gz
$ sed -E 's/(.*)(GCA_.[^.]*)(.[^_]*)(.*)/\1\2\3\/\2\4/' <<<"$f1"
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/900/169/985/GCA_900169985.1/GCA_900169985_IonXpress_024_genomic.fna.gz
sed -E (or -r in some systems) enables extended regex support in sed , so you don't need to escape the group parenthesis ( ).
The format (GCA_.[^.]*) equals to "get from GCA_ all chars up and excluding the first found dot" :
$ sed -E 's/(.*)(GCA_.[^.]*)(.[^_]*)(.*)/\2/' <<<"$f1"
GCA_900169985
Similarly (.[^_]*) means get all chars up to first found _ (excluding _ char). This is the regex way to perform a non greedy/lazy capture (in perl regex this would have been written something like as .*_?)
$ sed -E 's/(.*)(GCA_.[^.]*)(.[^_]*)(.*)/\3/' <<<"$f1"
.1
Short sed approach:
s="ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/900/169/985/GCA_900169985.1_IonXpress_024_genomic.fna.gz"
sed -E 's/(GCA_[^._]+)\.([^_]+)/\1.\2\/\1/' <<< "$s"
The output:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/900/169/985/GCA_900169985.1/GCA_900169985_IonXpress_024_genomic.fna.gz
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