Replace whole line when match found with sed
ShellReplaceSedMatchShell Problem Overview
I need to replace the whole line with sed
if it matches a pattern.
For example if the line is 'one two six three four' and if 'six' is there, then the whole line should be replaced with 'fault'.
Shell Solutions
Solution 1 - Shell
You can do it with either of these:
sed 's/.*six.*/fault/' file # check all lines
sed '/six/s/.*/fault/' file # matched lines -> then remove
It gets the full line containing six
and replaces it with fault
.
Example:
$ cat file
six
asdf
one two six
one isix
boo
$ sed 's/.*six.*/fault/' file
fault
asdf
fault
fault
boo
It is based on this solution to Replace whole line containing a string using Sed
More generally, you can use an expression sed '/match/s/.*/replacement/' file
. This will perform the sed 's/match/replacement/'
expression in those lines containing match
. In your case this would be:
sed '/six/s/.*/fault/' file
> What if we have 'one two six eight eleven three four' and we want to > include 'eight' and 'eleven' as our "bad" words?
In this case we can use the -e
for multiple conditions:
sed -e 's/.*six.*/fault/' -e 's/.*eight.*/fault/' file
and so on.
Or also:
sed '/eight/s/.*/XXXXX/; /eleven/s/.*/XXXX/' file
Solution 2 - Shell
Above answers worked fine for me, just mentioning an alternate way
Match single pattern and replace with a new one:
sed -i '/six/c fault' file
Match multiple pattern and replace with a new one(concatenating commands):
sed -i -e '/one/c fault' -e '/six/c fault' file
Solution 3 - Shell
To replace whole line containing a specified string with the content of that line
Text file:
Row: 0 last_time_contacted=0, display_name=Mozart, _id=100, phonebook_bucket_alt=2
Row: 1 last_time_contacted=0, display_name=Bach, _id=101, phonebook_bucket_alt=2
Single string:
$ sed 's/.* display_name=\([[:alpha:]]\+\).*/\1/'
output:
100
101
Multiple strings delimited by white-space:
$ sed 's/.* display_name=\([[:alpha:]]\+\).* _id=\([[:digit:]]\+\).*/\1 \2/'
output:
Mozart 100
Bach 101
Adjust regex to meet your needs
[:alpha] and [:digit:] are Character Classes and Bracket Expressions
Solution 4 - Shell
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -e '/six/{c\fault' -e ';d}' file
or:
sed '/six/{c\fault'$'\n'';d}' file