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Prepend a text to a file.

Using the sed -i (inline), you can replace the beginning of the first line of a file without redirecting the output to a temporary location.
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sed -i '1s/^/text to prepend\n/' file1

xeor · 2011-06-25 12:02:11 6
recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files

If you can install rpl it's simpler to use and faster than combinations of find, grep and sed. See man rpl for various options. time on above operation: real 0m0.862s, user 0m0.548s, sys 0m0.180s using find + sed: real 0m3.546s, user 0m1.752s, sys 0m1.580s Show Sample Output
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```
john@raffles2:~/Desktop$rpl -R LOCALE LOC**E copy\ of\ ies4linux-2.99.0.1/ 
Replacing "LOCALE" with "LOC**E" (case sensitive) (partial words matched)
..............................................................
A Total of 189 matches replaced in 62 files searched.
```
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$rpl -R oldstring newstring folder

johnraff · 2009-12-09 03:15:31 2
Prepend a text to a file.

Syntax: $ prepend content to add [filename] Uses ed, so no temp files created.
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prepend () { array=("$@"); len=${#array[@]}; file=${array[$len-1]}; text=${array[@]:0:$len-1}; printf '%s\n' 0a "$text" . w | ed -s "$file"; }

zlemini · 2013-12-09 21:59:26 0
Sed can refference parts of the pattern in the replacement:

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```
me=swap
2=1
```
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echo -e "swap=me\n1=2"|sed 's/$.*$=$.*$/\2=\1/g'

axelabs · 2010-01-16 22:01:37 0
Replace multiple spaces with semicolon
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sed "s/\s\+/;/g;s/^ //;s/ $//" filename.csv

ebah80 · 2011-07-20 08:51:07 0
Prepend a text to a file.

The original command is great, but I often want to prepend to every line. Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat output_files.txt
backup1.gz
backup2.gz
backup3.gz
$ sed -i 's/^/ls -l /' output_files.txt
$ cat output_files.txt
ls -l backup1.gz
ls -l backup2.gz
ls -l backup3.gz
$
```
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sed -i 's/^/ls -l /' output_files.txt

sonic · 2013-10-07 15:12:53 0
Open in TextMate Sidebar files (recursively) with names matching REGEX_A and not matching REGEX_B

This does the following: 1 - Search recursively for files whose names match REGEX_A 2 - From this list exclude files whose names match REGEX_B 3 - Open this as a group in textmate (in the sidebar) And now you can use Command+Shift+F to use textmate own find and replace on this particular group of files. For advanced regex in the first expression you can use -regextype posix-egrep like this: mate - `find * -type f -regextype posix-egrep -regex 'REGEX_A' | grep -v -E 'REGEX_B'` Warning: this is not ment to open files or folders with space os special characters in the filename. If anyone knows a solution to that, tell me so I can fix the line.
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mate - `find * -type f -regex 'REGEX_A' | grep -v -E 'REGEX_B'`

irae · 2009-08-12 22:24:08 0
VIM subst any char different from literal " + EOL with searched string + white space

---- this line ends here but must be concatenated with this one "this line ends here" and should NOT be concatenated with this one
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:%s/$[^\"]$$\n$/\1 /g

godzillante · 2010-09-03 11:03:49 0
Prepend a text to a file.

Prepend text to a file. It doen't need temporary files, ed or sed.
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echo "text to prepend" | cat - file

leni536 · 2013-12-18 15:54:17 3
Recursive search and replace (with bash only)

Replaces a string matching a pattern in one or several files found recursively in a particular folder.
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find ./ -type f -name "somefile.txt" -exec sed -i -e 's/foo/bar/g' {} \;

guillaume1306 · 2019-03-06 10:13:23 0
Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string

Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string. Lines with the string "group name" will have the first > character replaced while other > characters on other lines will be ignored. Show Sample Output
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```
Before:  <group name="HTTP Service Group" type="compat" resourceType="HTTP">
    <resourceType name="HTTP">
      <resource name="regex:^.*SERVERGROUP[^D]$"/>
    </resourceType>
  </group>

After:  <group name="HTTP Service Group - SERVERGROUP" type="compat" resourceType="HTTP" deleteMissing="true">
    <resourceType name="HTTP">
      <resource name="regex:^.*SERVERGROUP[^D]$"/>
    </resourceType>
  </group>
```
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for i in `find . -type f`; do sed -i '/group name/s/>/ deleteMissing="true">/' $i; done

allrightname · 2010-02-01 17:16:37 0
Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string

Changed out the for loop for an xargs. It's a tad shorter, and a tad cleaner.
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find . -type f |xargs -I% sed -i '/group name/s/>/ deleteMissing="true">/' %

4fthawaiian · 2010-02-01 21:09:57 0
remove script from infected html files

recursive find and replace. important stuff are grep -Z and zargs -0 which add zero byte after file name so sed can work even with file names with spaces.
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grep -ZlRr -e BAD_SCRIPT_LINE * |xargs -0 sed -i 's/BAD_SCRIPT_LINE//g'

homoludens · 2010-08-30 22:12:57 0
Regular expression search pattern to remove the Datetime and Name when you paste from skype chat into your text editor

Regular expression search pattern to remove the Datetime and Name when you paste from skype chat into your text editor From this Gist: https://gist.github.com/webstandardcss/3967760857d6be470dda
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sed -i 's/^.*?].*?:\s//g' skype-chat-log.txt

webstandardcss · 2014-05-26 07:48:36 0
replace audio track in a video file

The "map" may be different depending on the .wmv file. run `ffprobe` to see which is the video-track in the .wmv file usually this is "0.0". Stream #0.0: Video:... Stream #0.1: Audio: .. and "1.0" corresponds to the 2nd input file - your new audio. You may want to add "-acodec wmav2" and "-ar 128k" options for 128kbit/s Windows Media Audio 2 or whatever audio-codec/quality your want. `ffmpeg -codecs | grep "EA"` gives you a list of available codecs for Encoding Audio. Try using '-sameq' instead of '-vcodec copy' (re-encode the video with same quality rather than a bit-exact copy - this often solves muxing issues but will cause a small loss of either video quality or increased bandwidth). and also try a different output format eg. 'new_video.avi' or '..mov' instead of 'new_video.wmv'. you may need both, this should work: ffmpeg -i vid.wmv -i aud.wav -sameq -map 0.0 -map 1.0 output.avi
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ffmpeg -i orig_video.wmv -i new_audio.wav -vcodec copy -map 0.0 -map 1.0 new_video.wmv

lolssl · 2015-10-02 12:56:27 0
Replace + Find

This version works on OS X (if you have installed `rename`)
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find <mydir> -type f -exec rename 's/<string1>/<string2>/g' {} \;

thrifus · 2015-11-19 17:51:13 0
Replace + Find
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find <mydir> -type f -exec rename 's/<string1>/<string2>/g' {} \;

Dentorman · 2015-11-20 04:50:27 0
Powershell Curl Logs Signal Strength of Cable Modem

IMPORTANT: You need Windows PowerShell to run this command - in your Windows Command Prompt, type powershell Create a log file of your Motorola Surfboard SB6141 downstream signal strengths. Uses the built-in curl to request signal strength data from your SB6141 cable modem. HTML page 192.168.100.1/cmSignalData.htm has the signal strength numbers for the 8 downstreams. Some HTML/DOM processing parses out the 8 values from the above page. The eight extracted signal strengths are then logged to a file. A small while-loop watches the clock & repeats the process every 10 seconds. Show Sample Output
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```
PS C:\Users\user> type modemlog.txt
7:39:20 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:39:30 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:39:40 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:39:50 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:40:00 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
7:40:10 PM 1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  1 dBmV  0 dBmV  0 dBmV  -1 dBmV  -1 dBmV
PS C:\Users\user>
```
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while(1){while((date -f ss)%10-gt0){sleep -m 300} echo "$(date -u %s) $((curl 192.168.100.1/cmSignalData.htm).parsedhtml.body.childnodes.item(1).firstchild.firstchild.childnodes.item(5).outertext|%{$_ -replace '\D+\n',''})">>modemlog.txt;sleep 1;echo .}

omap7777 · 2015-12-24 02:12:10 0
Remove scripts tags from *.html and *.htm files under the current directory
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find ./ -type f $ -iname '*.html' -or -iname '*.htm' $ -exec sed -i '/<script/,/<\/script>/d' '{}' \;

mikhail · 2019-05-10 23:27:12 0
Identifies the file types in a directory and adds or replaces their file extensions.

It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file
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find "$(realpath .)" -type f -exec bash -c 'p="{}"; b="${p##*/}"; e=${b#"${b%.*}"}; e2=$(file -b -F="" --extension "$p"| awk -F/ '\''$1~/^\w+$/ {print $1} '\''); if [ "$e" != ".$e2" ] && [ ! -z $e2 ]; then mv "$p" "${p%$b}${b%$e}.$e2"; fi;' \;

mikhail · 2019-05-18 01:56:25 0
Edit a single line in multiple files with sed

Find and replace specific characters in a single line in multiple files with sed. Show Sample Output
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```
Original file
file1.txt:This is the MATCHING STRING and ORIGINAL some more text

Replaced file

file1.txt:This is the MATCHING STRING and REPLACEMENT some more text
```
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for f in `ls`; do sed -i '/MATCHING STRING/ { s/ORIGINAL/REPLACEMENT/; }' ${f} ; done

krizzo · 2015-05-21 19:37:42 2
VIM subst any char different from literal

In case the line you want to join start with a char different than ", you may use \n.*"\n as regex.
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:g/\n"/jo

mensa13 · 2010-09-11 18:51:41 0
Find/Replace in a bunch of files and keep a log of the changes

This is a more concise answer to http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2011/09/episode-158-old-switcheroo.html in my opinion.
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find . -type f | xargs grep -n "Old Text" | tee filesChanged.txt | sed 's/:.*$//' | xargs sed -i 's/Old Text/New Text/g

moogmusic · 2011-09-06 10:28:36 0
Replace tabs with spaces in file

Replaces tabs in output with spaces. Uses perl since sed seems to work differently across platforms.
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cat file_with_tabs.txt | perl -pe 's/\t/ /g'

nikc · 2010-07-11 13:01:22 4
Get rid of multiple spaces/tabs in a text file

A much shorter version of this command.
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sed -i "s/\s*/ /g;s/\s*$//" input_file

gitterrost4 · 2011-12-12 10:58:33 1
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