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Substitute large numbers of files according to style guide
I'd like to do a wholesale reformatting of our tests, and I'm cleaning up some inconsistent capitalization. I'm thinking of using awk to do this, since sed falls a little short, and since I need ...
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How can I insert a line in the middle of a file, with awk, given a search pattern to insert AFTER or BEFORE
I want to insert some text in the middle of a file. The text to insert would be after a specific line, say, "<begin>". I don't know the line number, nor do I know the number of lines in the text ...
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Increment one value in a text line, using script
I have a text file as input. I need to filter that through some program, SED, AWK, whatever, where i need to increment a value in a particular line every time i run the script.
What's the best way ...
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awk+regex with GUI on windows?
Sometimes i have text copied from a doc or a browser which i need to process. I figure awk would solve it and maybe a little regex to help.
Is there something like this? or do i need to find a ...
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replace nth occurence of string in each line of a text file
I have large text files with space delimited strings (2-5). The strings can contain "'" or "-". I'd like to replace say the second space with a pipe. What's the best way to go?
Using sed I was ...
