topic sed command needed please in Operating System - HP-UX

sed command needed please

Dadski — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:32:07 GMT

Morning All,

I am writing a remediation script to a very tight deadline accross HPUX, Solaris and AIX, and am looking for something that I am sure is pretty easy but isconsuming lots of my time.

I am looking to edit a text file using sed. base on different conditions, so a file may have the following different entries.

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd

#DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd/helpme

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd/elvis/is/alive

etc

I want to simply replace any of these with

DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd

using sed, any ideas?

thanks very much

Martin

Re: sed command needed please

Dennis Handly — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:43:11 GMT

Probably something simple like:

sed -e 's:.*DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd.*$:DICTIONDBDIR=/var/passwd:' file > file.new

Re: sed command needed please

Dennis Handly — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:09:37 GMT

Besides marking my post as a solution, it would nice if you also assigned kudos.