I would like to replace a string which is present on the first line though it is there on rest of the lines in the file as well. How can i do that through a shell script? Can someone help me regarding this. My code is as below. I am extracting the first line from the file and after that I am not sure how to do a replace. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Guys -I would like to replace a string present in $line and write the new line into the same file at same place.
Code:
while read line
do
if [[ $v_counter == 0 ]] then
echo "$line"
v_counter=$(($v_counter + 1));
fi
done < "$v_Full_File_Nm"
Sample data:
Input
BUXT_CMPID|MEDICAL_RECORD_NUM|FACILITY_ID|PATIENT_LAST_NAME|PATIENT_FIRST_NAME|HOME_ADDRESS_LINE_1|HOME_ADDRESS_LINE_2|HOME_CITY|HOME_STATE|HOME_ZIP|MOSAIC_CODE|MOSAIC_DESC|DRIVE_TIME| buxt_pt_apnd_20140624_head_5records.txt
100106086|5000120878|7141|HARRIS|NEDRA|6246 PARALLEL PKWY||KANSAS CITY|KS|66102|S71|Tough Times|2|buxt_pt_apnd_20140624_head_5records.txt
Output
BUXT_CMPID|MEDICAL_RECORD_NUM|FACILITY_ID|PATIENT_LAST_NAME|PATIENT_FIRST_NAME|HOME_ADDRESS_LINE_1|HOME_ADDRESS_LINE_2|HOME_CITY|HOME_STATE|HOME_ZIP|MOSAIC_CODE|MOSAIC_DESC|DRIVE_TIME| SRC_FILE_NM
100106086|5000120878|7141|HARRIS|NEDRA|6246 PARALLEL PKWY||KANSAS CITY|KS|66102|S71|Tough Times|2|buxt_pt_apnd_20140624_head_5records.txt
From the above sample data I need to replace buxt_pt_apnd_20140624_head_5records.txt with SRC_FILE_NAME string.
Why not use sed?
sed -e '1s/fred/frog/' yourfile
will replace fred with frog on line 1.
If your 'string' is a variable, you can do this to get the variable expanded:
sed -e "1s/$varA/$varB/" yourfile
If you want to do it in place and change your file, add -i before -e.
awk -v old="string1" -v new="string2" '
NR==1 && (idx=index($0,old)) {
$0 = substr($0,1,idx-1) new substr($0,idx+length(old))
}
1' file > /usr/tmp/tmp$$ && mv /usr/tmp/tmp$$ file
The above will replace string1 with string2 only when it appears in the first line of file.
Any solution posted that uses awk but does not use index will not work in general. Same for any solution posted that uses sed. The reason is that those would work on REs, not strings and so behave undesirably for string replacement depending what characters are present in string1.
Looks like the OPs going with a sed RE-replacement solution so this is just for anyone else looking to replace a string: Here's what a string replacement function would look like if youd rather not have it inline:
awk -v old="string1" -v new="string2" '
function strsub(old,new,tgt, idx) {
if ( idx = index(tgt,old) ) {
tgt = substr(tgt,1,idx-1) new substr(tgt,idx+length(old))
}
return tgt
}
NR==1 { $0 = strsub(old,new,$0) }
1' file
A bash solution:
file="afile.txt"
str="hello"
repl="goodbye"
IFS= read -r line < "$file"
line=${line/$str/$repl}
tmpfile="/usr/tmp/$file.$$.tmp"
{
echo "$line"
tail -n+2 "$file"
} > "$tmpfile" && mv "$tmpfile" "$file"
Note that $str above will be interpreted as a "pattern" (a simple kind of regex) where * matches any number of any characters, ? matches any single character, [abc] matches any one of the characters in the brackets, and [^abc] (or [!abc]) matches any one character not in the brackets. See Pattern-Matching
I have a list of n files in a folder have some format.
Eg: ABCD.EXXXX.ZZZZ.ZZZZZ.txt
in above file ABCD.E is common for all the files,ZZZZ.ZZZZ is user wish string and i need to extract XXXX from all the files , need to display distinct XXXX to user.. Is there any way to do so.? Help me out in doing so.. Thanks in advance..
Use ls -1 to make a list of the relevant files. Pipe it into sed to strip the beginning 'ABCD.E'. Then pipe it into sed again to remove everything after the first '.'
ls -1 ABCD\.E*\.txt | sed 's/^ABCD\.E//' | sed 's/\..*//'
Alternatively, if you want a little more control of the output you can do the second bit with awk
ls -1 ABCD\.E*\.txt | sed 's/^ABCD\.E//' | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print "value =", $1, "user=", $2"."$3}'
awk -F"."'{print $2}' filename
You can try printing $1, $2 ,$3... to get more understanding of command.
You can use the bash/ksh parameter subsitution # and % for this from inside the shell.
function get_filename_section {
typeset f=${1:?}
typeset r=${f#ABCD.E}
print ${r%.ZZZZ.ZZZZZ.txt}
}
Testing:
[[ $( get_filename_section ABCD.EXXXX.ZZZZ.ZZZZZ.txt ) == XXXX ]] &&
echo ok || echo no
i am trying to display the line number whenever the charcter count is less than 9. If it less than 9, then i want to add a tab at the end of the line.
However while doing that in the sed command i am not view $line in the output.
#!/usr/bin/sh
#set -x
while read line; do
count=`echo $line|wc -m`
if [ $count -lt 9 ]
then
sed -n '/$line/=' Length4.txt;
fi
done < Length4.txt
Length.txt
ABCD
DEFG
HFIJ
KLMN
You will need double quotes in shell for variable expansion:
sed -n "/$line/=" Length4.txt
Though if you describe your problem better we can help you cleanup some code.
This whole thing could be solved a little easier with awk:
awk 'length($0) < 9 { print NR }' Length4.txt
I have the following lines in a file:
abcdef ghi jkl
uvw xyz
I want to grep for the string "xyz" if the previous line is not contains the string "jkl".
I know how to grep for a string if the line doesn't contains a specific string using -v option. But i don't know how to do this with different lines.
grep is really a line-oriented tool. It might be possible to achieve what you want with it, but it's easier to use Awk:
awk '
/xyz/ && !skip { print }
{ skip = /jkl/ }
' file
Read as: for every line, do
if the current line matches xyz and we haven't just seen jkl, print it;
set the variable skip to indicate whether we've just seen jkl.
sed '/jkl/{N;d}; /xyz/!d'
If find jkl, remove that line and next
print only remaining lines with xyz
I think you're better off using an actual programming language, even a simple one like Bash or AWK or sed. For example, using Bash:
(
previous_line_matched=
while IFS= read -r line ; do
if [[ ! "$previous_line_matched" && "$line" == *xyz* ]] ; then
echo "$line"
fi
if [[ "$line" == *jkl* ]] ; then
previous_line_matched=1
else
previous_line_matched=
fi
done < input_file
)
Or, more tersely, using Perl:
perl -ne 'print if m/xyz/ && ! $skip; $skip = m/jkl/' < input_file
I would like to remove all of the empty lines from a file, but only when they are at the end/start of a file (that is, if there are no non-empty lines before them, at the start; and if there are no non-empty lines after them, at the end.)
Is this possible outside of a fully-featured scripting language like Perl or Ruby? I’d prefer to do this with sed or awk if possible. Basically, any light-weight and widely available UNIX-y tool would be fine, especially one I can learn more about quickly (Perl, thus, not included.)
From Useful one-line scripts for sed:
# Delete all leading blank lines at top of file (only).
sed '/./,$!d' file
# Delete all trailing blank lines at end of file (only).
sed -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;};/\n$/ba' file
Therefore, to remove both leading and trailing blank lines from a file, you can combine the above commands into:
sed -e :a -e '/./,$!d;/^\n*$/{$d;N;};/\n$/ba' file
So I'm going to borrow part of #dogbane's answer for this, since that sed line for removing the leading blank lines is so short...
tac is part of coreutils, and reverses a file. So do it twice:
tac file | sed -e '/./,$!d' | tac | sed -e '/./,$!d'
It's certainly not the most efficient, but unless you need efficiency, I find it more readable than everything else so far.
here's a one-pass solution in awk: it does not start printing until it sees a non-empty line and when it sees an empty line, it remembers it until the next non-empty line
awk '
/[[:graph:]]/ {
# a non-empty line
# set the flag to begin printing lines
p=1
# print the accumulated "interior" empty lines
for (i=1; i<=n; i++) print ""
n=0
# then print this line
print
}
p && /^[[:space:]]*$/ {
# a potentially "interior" empty line. remember it.
n++
}
' filename
Note, due to the mechanism I'm using to consider empty/non-empty lines (with [[:graph:]] and /^[[:space:]]*$/), interior lines with only whitespace will be truncated to become truly empty.
As mentioned in another answer, tac is part of coreutils, and reverses a file. Combining the idea of doing it twice with the fact that command substitution will strip trailing new lines, we get
echo "$(echo "$(tac "$filename")" | tac)"
which doesn't depend on sed. You can use echo -n to strip the remaining trailing newline off.
Here's an adapted sed version, which also considers "empty" those lines with just spaces and tabs on it.
sed -e :a -e '/[^[:blank:]]/,$!d; /^[[:space:]]*$/{ $d; N; ba' -e '}'
It's basically the accepted answer version (considering BryanH comment), but the dot . in the first command was changed to [^[:blank:]] (anything not blank) and the \n inside the second command address was changed to [[:space:]] to allow newlines, spaces an tabs.
An alternative version, without using the POSIX classes, but your sed must support inserting \t and \n inside […]. GNU sed does, BSD sed doesn't.
sed -e :a -e '/[^\t ]/,$!d; /^[\n\t ]*$/{ $d; N; ba' -e '}'
Testing:
prompt$ printf '\n \t \n\nfoo\n\nfoo\n\n \t \n\n'
foo
foo
prompt$ printf '\n \t \n\nfoo\n\nfoo\n\n \t \n\n' | sed -n l
$
\t $
$
foo$
$
foo$
$
\t $
$
prompt$ printf '\n \t \n\nfoo\n\nfoo\n\n \t \n\n' | sed -e :a -e '/[^[:blank:]]/,$!d; /^[[:space:]]*$/{ $d; N; ba' -e '}'
foo
foo
prompt$
using awk:
awk '{a[NR]=$0;if($0 && !s)s=NR;}
END{e=NR;
for(i=NR;i>1;i--)
if(a[i]){ e=i; break; }
for(i=s;i<=e;i++)
print a[i];}' yourFile
this can be solved easily with sed -z option
sed -rz 's/^\n+//; s/\n+$/\n/g' file
Hello
Welcome to
Unix and Linux
For an efficient non-recursive version of the trailing newlines strip (including "white" characters) I've developed this sed script.
sed -n '/^[[:space:]]*$/ !{x;/\n/{s/^\n//;p;s/.*//;};x;p;}; /^[[:space:]]*$/H'
It uses the hold buffer to store all blank lines and prints them only after it finds a non-blank line. Should someone want only the newlines, it's enough to get rid of the two [[:space:]]* parts:
sed -n '/^$/ !{x;/\n/{s/^\n//;p;s/.*//;};x;p;}; /^$/H'
I've tried a simple performance comparison with the well-known recursive script
sed -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;};/\n$/ba'
on a 3MB file with 1MB of random blank lines around a random base64 text.
shuf -re 1 2 3 | tr -d "\n" | tr 123 " \t\n" | dd bs=1 count=1M > bigfile
base64 </dev/urandom | dd bs=1 count=1M >> bigfile
shuf -re 1 2 3 | tr -d "\n" | tr 123 " \t\n" | dd bs=1 count=1M >> bigfile
The streaming script took roughly 0.5 second to complete, the recursive didn't end after 15 minutes. Win :)
For completeness sake of the answer, the leading lines stripping sed script is already streaming fine. Use the most suitable for you.
sed '/[^[:blank:]]/,$!d'
sed '/./,$!d'
Using bash
$ filecontent=$(<file)
$ echo "${filecontent/$'\n'}"
In bash, using cat, wc, grep, sed, tail and head:
# number of first line that contains non-empty character
i=`grep -n "^[^\B*]" <your_file> | sed -e 's/:.*//' | head -1`
# number of hte last one
j=`grep -n "^[^\B*]" <your_file> | sed -e 's/:.*//' | tail -1`
# overall number of lines:
k=`cat <your_file> | wc -l`
# how much empty lines at the end of file we have?
m=$(($k-$j))
# let strip last m lines!
cat <your_file> | head -n-$m
# now we have to strip first i lines and we are done 8-)
cat <your_file> | tail -n+$i
Man, it's definitely worth to learn "real" programming language to avoid that ugliness!
#dogbane has a nice simple answer for removing leading empty lines. Here's a simple awk command which removes just the trailing lines. Use this with #dogbane's sed command to remove both leading and trailing blanks.
awk '{ LINES=LINES $0 "\n"; } /./ { printf "%s", LINES; LINES=""; }'
This is pretty simple in operation.
Add every line to a buffer as we read it.
For every line which contains a character, print the contents of the buffer and then clear it.
So the only things that get buffered and never displayed are any trailing blanks.
I used printf instead of print to avoid the automatic addition of a newline, since I'm using newlines to separate the lines in the buffer already.
This AWK script will do the trick:
BEGIN {
ne=0;
}
/^[[:space:]]*$/ {
ne++;
}
/[^[:space:]]+/ {
for(i=0; i < ne; i++)
print "";
ne=0;
print
}
The idea is simple: empty lines do not get echoed immediately. Instead, we wait till we get a non-empty line, and only then we first echo out as much empty lines as seen before it, and only then echo out the new non-empty line.
perl -0pe 's/^\n+|\n+(\n)$/\1/gs'
Here's an awk version that removes trailing blank lines (both empty lines and lines consisting of nothing but white space).
It is memory efficient; it does not read the entire file into memory.
awk '/^[[:space:]]*$/ {b=b $0 "\n"; next;} {printf "%s",b; b=""; print;}'
The b variable buffers up the blank lines; they get printed when a non-blank line is encountered. When EOF is encountered, they don't get printed. That's how it works.
If using gnu awk, [[:space:]] can be replaced with \s. (See full list of gawk-specific Regexp Operators.)
If you want to remove only those trailing lines that are empty, see #AndyMortimer's answer.
A bash solution.
Note: Only useful if the file is small enough to be read into memory at once.
[[ $(<file) =~ ^$'\n'*(.*)$ ]] && echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
$(<file) reads the entire file and trims trailing newlines, because command substitution ($(....)) implicitly does that.
=~ is bash's regular-expression matching operator, and =~ ^$'\n'*(.*)$ optionally matches any leading newlines (greedily), and captures whatever comes after. Note the potentially confusing $'\n', which inserts a literal newline using ANSI C quoting, because escape sequence \n is not supported.
Note that this particular regex always matches, so the command after && is always executed.
Special array variable BASH_REMATCH rematch contains the results of the most recent regex match, and array element [1] contains what the (first and only) parenthesized subexpression (capture group) captured, which is the input string with any leading newlines stripped. The net effect is that ${BASH_REMATCH[1]} contains the input file content with both leading and trailing newlines stripped.
Note that printing with echo adds a single trailing newline. If you want to avoid that, use echo -n instead (or use the more portable printf '%s').
I'd like to introduce another variant for gawk v4.1+
result=($(gawk '
BEGIN {
lines_count = 0;
empty_lines_in_head = 0;
empty_lines_in_tail = 0;
}
/[^[:space:]]/ {
found_not_empty_line = 1;
empty_lines_in_tail = 0;
}
/^[[:space:]]*?$/ {
if ( found_not_empty_line ) {
empty_lines_in_tail ++;
} else {
empty_lines_in_head ++;
}
}
{
lines_count ++;
}
END {
print (empty_lines_in_head " " empty_lines_in_tail " " lines_count);
}
' "$file"))
empty_lines_in_head=${result[0]}
empty_lines_in_tail=${result[1]}
lines_count=${result[2]}
if [ $empty_lines_in_head -gt 0 ] || [ $empty_lines_in_tail -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Removing whitespace from \"$file\""
eval "gawk -i inplace '
{
if ( NR > $empty_lines_in_head && NR <= $(($lines_count - $empty_lines_in_tail)) ) {
print
}
}
' \"$file\""
fi
Because I was writing a bash script anyway containing some functions, I found it convenient to write those:
function strip_leading_empty_lines()
{
while read line; do
if [ -n "$line" ]; then
echo "$line"
break
fi
done
cat
}
function strip_trailing_empty_lines()
{
acc=""
while read line; do
acc+="$line"$'\n'
if [ -n "$line" ]; then
echo -n "$acc"
acc=""
fi
done
}