remove a specific character occuring in file using script

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Re: remove a specific character occuring in file using script by jbrugger (Parson) on Feb 10, 2005 at 07:56 UTC
you want to change "../foo" to ../foo? see example: blah.txt: `"../foo.blah" rara wewe wewe rara wewe wewe rara "../bar.blah"` [download] then perform: ~~`perl -pi -e 's/\"(\.\.\/.?)\"/$1/g' blah.txt`~~ update* only foo.blah? use: `perl -pi -e 's/\"(\.\.\/foo\.blah)\"/$1/g' blah.txt` [download] that results in: `../foo.blah rara wewe wewe rara wewe wewe rara "../bar.blah"` [download] Update 2 ah, if you'd use code tags, it would have been clear to me... `perl -pi -e 's/(source.?)\"(\.\.\/.)\"/$1$2/g' blah.txt`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: remove a specific character occuring in file using script by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2005 at 08:14 UTC
the solution you had suggested works fine , but problem is that i do not want to remove all occurences of '' in the file. i had told you i want the specific statement source "../xxx.cmd" to be replaces as source ../xxx.cmd. i want only this type of statements not all .	[reply]
Re: remove a specific character occuring in file using script by sh1tn (Priest) on Feb 10, 2005 at 08:15 UTC
UNIX cli: `perl -i.org -pe 's\|"(\.\./version.cmd)"\|$1\|' filename` [download] win32 cli: `perl -i.org -pe "s\|\"(\.\./version.cmd)\"\|$1\|" filename` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: remove a specific character occuring in file using script by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Feb 10, 2005 at 08:11 UTC
If you don't care about escaped " chars: `perl -pi -e 's/source "(.+?)"/source $1/g'` [download] If you do: `perl -pi -e 's/source "([^"\\](?:\\.[^"\\])*)"/source $1/g'` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: remove a specific character occuring in file using script by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2005 at 09:05 UTC
`perl -pi -e 's\|\"(\.\./version\.cmd)\"\|$1\|gi' a.txt` --C	[reply] [d/l]