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How can I match whitespace in sed? In my data I want to match all of 3+ subsequent whitespace characters (tab space) and replace them by 2 spaces. How can this be done?
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I want to replace the a string with the word string as the following example down , but if a string exist also after comment then a string will replaced too
In which way I can add to the sed command the irregular exp that ignore from the #.
[root@localhost tmp]# more test
a
b
aa
bb
#a
#b
#aa
#bb
[root@localhost…
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Hi,
I am using the following script to search and replace the deprecated functions in a file with the newer ones.
5 for strFile in `ls deprecated_functions_search_and_replace.txt `
6 do
7 sed "s/ereg_replace[^\(]*(\([^,]*\),/preg_replace\1('#'.\2.'#',/g" $strFile > temp_file
8 …
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I have a footer which is set to 100% width, but if i size the window smaller so a horizontal scrollbar appears, using the scrollbar shows whitespace to the right of the footer ... its not spanned 100% of the page, just the viewport.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
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$ sed "s/\(^[a-z,0-9]*\)\(.*\)\( [a-z,0-9]*$\)/\1\2 \1/g" desired_file_name
I apreciate it even if you only explain part of it or at lest structure it with words as in s\alphanumerical_at_start\something\alphanumerical_at_end\something_else\global
Could someone explain what that means, why and…
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Hello there.
I'm having a problem using the sed command . I'm trying to write a bash script that does the following :
search for the line that contain :@
then save the line that contained :@ and replace it with new line
as in the following:
#! /bin/bash
echo "Please enter the ip address…
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I've been trying to construct a ruby regex which matches trailing spaces - but not indentation placeholders - so I can gsub them out.
I had this /\b[\t ]+$/ and it was working a treat until I realised it only works when the line ends are [a-zA-Z]. :-( So I evolved it into this /(?!^[\t ]+)[\t ]+$/…
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void RemoveSpace(char *String)
{
int i=0,y=0;
int leading=0;
for(i=0,y=0;String[i]!='\0';i++,y++)
{
String[y]=String[i]; // let us copy the current character.
if(isspace(String[i])) // Is the current character a space?
{
if(isspace(String[i+1])||String[i+1]=='\0'||leading…
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We recently had an issues where I had rebooted our EC2 instance (Ubuntu x86_64, version 9.10 server) and due to an EC2 issue the instance needed to be stopped and was down for a few days.
Now I have been able to bring the instance back online I cannot connect to SSH using the keypair which previously…
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I'm having trouble trying to SSH to my Debian 5 VPS with blacknight.
It was working fine until I did the following:
Logged into 'Parallels Infrastructure Manager' - Container - Firewall - Set to 'Normal Firewall settings'.
It told me there was an error with the IPTables and offered the option again…
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I have a setup where I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 as a VirtualBox guest under a Windows 7 host, behind a restrictive corporate firewall. I have set up NAT from the host port 22 to Ubuntu's port 22; IT inform me that they have opened port 22 outbound for the host machine's IP address.
I have run ssh-keygen…
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