New answers tagged sed
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sed option to preserve file times during a find/replace?
You could use a mix of sed -i and touch, to preserve the initial timestamp. For example:
file=file-to-edit
sed -i .bak 's|...' "$file"
touch -r "$file.bak" "$file"
# rm &...
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keep each line containing x only if column y is the first containing x. remove the rest containing x
So, I went this route, which is nice and simple and seems to be working for me:
awk -F, '!x[$4]++'
A far as I can tell, awk here is checking the 4th column (field), if it's not seen it before, then ...
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sed remove with regex
I was able to do this with the following!
for f in src/**/*.c
do
sed -i '/#ifdef CEEDLING_TESTS/d' $f
sed -i '/#else/,/#endif/d' $f
done
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sed: how to replace line if found or append to end of file if not found?
As a programmer not accustomed to shell scripts it was easier to construct a more readable (for me) command by first deleting any existing match and then appending the value to the end of file
my-...
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