Sed or anyother command to search for a pattern and replace whole line
Hi All,
How can I search a file for a perticular pattern and if found replace the whole line with the specified one.
I have lines like.
How can I search a file for a perticular pattern and if found replace the whole line with the specified one.
I have lines like.
<!ENTITY mydbhost "Blah_Some_Varible_Text">
I want to search <!ENTITY mydbhost if found
replace the total line or the variable_text with
<!ENTITY mydbhost "MYDBHOSTNAME">
sed -e 's/MYDBHOSTNAME/variable_text/g' myfile.xml
seems working but not solution to my requirement.I want the reverse of this.
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Hi its working but can you explain me how i shall do for other or how this command is working.
because i have to do the same thing for 10 or 20 lines with different parameters.
because i have to do the same thing for 10 or 20 lines with different parameters.
what are the different parameters?
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I have few more but id ont know how i will generate a file while running multiple sed commands.
i have a config.xml file where two params(It may grow to 10+) i need to replace with some value so i did.
sed -e 's/\(ENTITY hostname \)"\(.*\)"/\1"BLAH123HOSTD
sed -e 's/\(ENTITY workflowhostname \)"\(.*\)"/\1"BLAHBLAH123"
How can i put into a script so that i dont need to do it like this all changes will go to the file in one shot and a new file will be created.
i have a config.xml file where two params(It may grow to 10+) i need to replace with some value so i did.
sed -e 's/\(ENTITY hostname \)"\(.*\)"/\1"BLAH123HOSTD
sed -e 's/\(ENTITY workflowhostname \)"\(.*\)"/\1"BLAHBLAH123"
How can i put into a script so that i dont need to do it like this all changes will go to the file in one shot and a new file will be created.
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<PROPERTY NAME="SOURCE_ROOT">SomeVar
how do i change it to
<PROPERTY NAME="SOURCE_ROOT">MYROOTP
how do i change it to
<PROPERTY NAME="SOURCE_ROOT">MYROOTP
sed -e 's#<PROPERTY NAME="SOURCE_ROOT">.*</PRO
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Thanks for inputs but i did it like below
sed -i -e 's/\(ENTITY webserver \)"\(.*\)"/\1"WEBSERVER"/'
sed -i -e 's/<PROPERTY NAME="SERVICE_PORT">.*/<PR
No need to pipe it to something. -i works like charm
Thanks. RKS
sed -i -e 's/\(ENTITY webserver \)"\(.*\)"/\1"WEBSERVER"/'
sed -i -e 's/<PROPERTY NAME="SERVICE_PORT">.*/<PR
No need to pipe it to something. -i works like charm
Thanks. RKS
Try this instead:
sed 's/ENTITY\(.*\)"\(.*\)"/EN
Cheers,
K.