I am trying to remove comments from a file which may be in any part of a line and span multiple lines. struct my_struct{ field1; field2; /** comment 1 */ field3; /* comment 2 */ } struct_name; I need to get struct my_struct{ field1; field2; field3; } struct_name; I tried using grep -o '[^/*]*[^*/]' to … Read more
I’ve been reading about sed and found that it was evolved from grep command.
Let M=3 and N=4. I want to replace line M in file1 with line N in file2. I can replace with a string using sed:
I have this:
While appending some text after a matched pattern, I wanted to add an empty line with a comment to isolate my additions from the rest. However, I have noticed that for the very first n, I need to escape the with an additional (makes it \n) but this is apparently not required for rest of the appended text. Why is this so?
I’m running a ksh script on AIX 7.2.
The command that I have prints out two of the lines whenever FW_6.0.0 is found, below is the code:
I have a question related to deletion of strings that appear at the n+2 position after the matched string which is at position n using awk for multiple files. I am able to print it using the command:
I want to replace only the first k instances of a word.