Category "sed"

Parsing HTML on the command line; How to capture text in ?

I'm trying to grab data from HTML output that looks like this: Target1NoSpaces .... Targ

Using sed to replace tab with spaces

I'm trying to replace the tab with 4 spaces, using sed, but it is not working. Here is my code: sed -i '{s/\t/ \{4\}/g}' filename Any suggestion is apprecia

Prefix the contents of a file using content of another file having a single line

I am trying to insert the contents of a file1.txt into file2.txt using sed. The content of file1.txt is just a single line, which is a path. I want it to be add

How to use sed to remove the last n lines of a file

I want to remove some n lines from the end of a file. Can this be done using sed? For example, to remove lines from 2 to 4, I can use $ sed '2,4d' file But

How to use sed/grep to extract text between two words?

I am trying to output a string that contains everything between two words of a string: input: "Here is a String" output: "is a" Using: sed -n '/Here/,/

How do i replace [] brackets using SED

I have a string that i am want to remove punctuation from. I started with sed 's/[[:punct:]]/ /g' But i had problems on HP-UX not liking that all the time

Use a variable's value in a sed command [duplicate]

I can't seem to use a variable in a sed command, for example: sed "24s/.*/"$ct_tname"/" file1.sas > file2.sas I want $ct_tname the varia

Removing leading, trailing and multiple spaces within a string

I would like to remove all leading and trailing spaces. As well as replace multiple spaces with a single space within a string, so that all words in a string ar

How to convert YYYYMMDDHHMMSS to a date readable by `date`

I have a set of date/time strings in the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format that I want to convert to something readable by the date utility. Usually, I can do something li

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