-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'll give it a go in the morning.
sed -i is not dangerous... unless you didn't make a copy of the data first... Mark Carlson wrote: > On 10/17/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have a client who has mysteriously damaged a whole bunch of files. >> Basically, there are 2300 files in a directory and sub-directories, >> which are comma delimited. Somehow a bunch of files had an extra comma >> added at the end of some lines. What I need to do is to remove double >> commas ",," from the _end_ of some lines in each file (there are double >> commas in the middle of the line that must be untouched). >> >> This screams sed to me, but I am missing something, since I cannot seem >> to find the regex incantation that will find two commas at the end only. >> >> It seemed simple, but then I am used to vim syntax (:%s/,,$/,/g), which >> normally also works in sed for me. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. > > -bash-2.05b$ cat > test.txt > test1,, > test2,, > test3,,test4,, > > -bash-2.05b$ cat test.txt | sed "s/,,$/,/" > test1, > test2, > test3,,test4, > > > > That works here... > > of course, it isn't writing it back to the file in this case. > > If you want to play with fire, you can do: `sed -i "" -e "s/,,$/,/" files` > > This will edit files in place without making a backup (replace > brackets with an extension to make a backup of each file) > > Dunno about recursing into directories, might need to pair `sed` with > `find` for that. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNbc0wRXgH3rKGfMRAt3TAJ4wkne9zYxdZyf/26j2zwigdhI/PACgoGsn qGU7Mfj73RPkhPs/7uf8RzE= =tARZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
