Find & Replace

Benr · 04-09-2004, 01:44 AM

I'm at the end of my rope here. I'm taking this rediculous class that is using this terrible book and the teacher seems to just like to assign problems that arent' covered by said book.

I need to search a file, pull out all the vowels and turn them into numbers. So a-->1, e-->2, i-->3, etc... It also has to be a single pipeline. So no shell scripts.

I've searched google and havn't found anything yet. So I'm giving asking a shot.

iluvatar · 04-09-2004, 04:41 AM

you must use the sed command. this command:

sed s/"a"/"1"/ file.txt > file2.txt

will replace all 'a' characters into '1' characters from file 'file.txt' and it writes the new file with changed characters to 'file2.txt'. you may do much more complicated things with sed, wich I don't know

read the man page (man sed) for more information!

greetinz,
-= iluvatar =-

Benr · 04-16-2004, 01:08 AM

Ahh thanks. No wonder I never found it in the given chapters...sed is the next section :/

Benr · 05-03-2004, 12:20 AM

Here's what I ended up using for those who are interested...

Code:

sed -e 's/a/1/g' -e 's/e/2/g' -e 's/i/3/g' -e 's/o/4/g' -e 's/u/5/g' file1 > file2

Now, what I have to do is instead of find and replace I need to find and delete. So find all the vowels and delete them. So far I can find each vowel and replace them with a space but there should be a way to delete each one, yeah?

slakmagik · 05-03-2004, 12:35 AM

sed 's/foo//g'
replaces 'foo' with nothing. It only put a space if you tell it to. 's/foo/ /g'

Shouldn't really be asking homework questions and I shouldn't be answering, but it's not like this one is really a major giveaway.

For the first
sed 's/[aeiou]/1/g'
would have been easier unless they have to be different numbers and then
sed 's/a/1/g;s/e/2/g;...'
would have been slightly. Probably even easier varieties, but my sed sucks.

Benr · 05-03-2004, 02:37 PM

Heh, thanks. I know I shouldn't be asking and that was the last time. I thought I had it after that first question but I couldn't find anywhere in the man pages that just said I could put nothing and get it to erase.

Now I'm getting the hang of it at least. Next up I get to work on awk.