Replacing with a word in a file

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I would like to change </div> in a very long document almost, consists of almost 2500 pages, with the word "Index:", but it never worked. I tried sedin many different ways for example:

 sed '/s^[</div>]/Index:/g'

But it didn't work!

would you please let me know what is the correct command?

example

</div>
</div>
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () </div> 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
</div>
</script>
</body>

i want it

Index:
Index:
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () Index 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
Index:
</script>
</body>

edited 57 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

1

Please provide sample input and output, and the sed examples you tried. Note that, ingeneral, parsing HTML is not a good idea
â€“Â Jeff Schaller
1 hour ago

it is not html, we clean this document frome very extra charcters we only has </div> and cant moe it out the book
â€“Â Zahi
1 hour ago

Downvoters, what is wrong with this question? It is very clear in what it wants to achieve, and what the OP has done to try and solve the problem. If you believe there to be some issue, please tell the OP in the comments. That's what they're for.
â€“Â Cyclic3
15 mins ago

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up vote
3
down vote

favorite

I would like to change </div> in a very long document almost, consists of almost 2500 pages, with the word "Index:", but it never worked. I tried sedin many different ways for example:

 sed '/s^[</div>]/Index:/g'

But it didn't work!

would you please let me know what is the correct command?

example

</div>
</div>
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () </div> 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
</div>
</script>
</body>

i want it

Index:
Index:
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () Index 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
Index:
</script>
</body>

edited 57 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

1

Please provide sample input and output, and the sed examples you tried. Note that, ingeneral, parsing HTML is not a good idea
â€“Â Jeff Schaller
1 hour ago

it is not html, we clean this document frome very extra charcters we only has </div> and cant moe it out the book
â€“Â Zahi
1 hour ago

Downvoters, what is wrong with this question? It is very clear in what it wants to achieve, and what the OP has done to try and solve the problem. If you believe there to be some issue, please tell the OP in the comments. That's what they're for.
â€“Â Cyclic3
15 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
3
down vote

favorite

I would like to change </div> in a very long document almost, consists of almost 2500 pages, with the word "Index:", but it never worked. I tried sedin many different ways for example:

 sed '/s^[</div>]/Index:/g'

But it didn't work!

would you please let me know what is the correct command?

example

</div>
</div>
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () </div> 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
</div>
</script>
</body>

i want it

Index:
Index:
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () Index 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
Index:
</script>
</body>

edited 57 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

I would like to change </div> in a very long document almost, consists of almost 2500 pages, with the word "Index:", but it never worked. I tried sedin many different ways for example:

 sed '/s^[</div>]/Index:/g'

But it didn't work!

would you please let me know what is the correct command?

example

</div>
</div>
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () </div> 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
</div>
</script>
</body>

i want it

Index:
Index:
<script src="https://cdn.pkgs.org/assets/js/main.min.js?v10"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () Index 
app.init("pkgs.org", 101);
)
Index:
</script>
</body>

bash

edited 57 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

edited 57 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

edited 57 mins ago

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

asked 1 hour ago

Zahi

1307

1

Please provide sample input and output, and the sed examples you tried. Note that, ingeneral, parsing HTML is not a good idea
â€“Â Jeff Schaller
1 hour ago

it is not html, we clean this document frome very extra charcters we only has </div> and cant moe it out the book
â€“Â Zahi
1 hour ago

Downvoters, what is wrong with this question? It is very clear in what it wants to achieve, and what the OP has done to try and solve the problem. If you believe there to be some issue, please tell the OP in the comments. That's what they're for.
â€“Â Cyclic3
15 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

1

Please provide sample input and output, and the sed examples you tried. Note that, ingeneral, parsing HTML is not a good idea
â€“Â Jeff Schaller
1 hour ago

it is not html, we clean this document frome very extra charcters we only has </div> and cant moe it out the book
â€“Â Zahi
1 hour ago

Downvoters, what is wrong with this question? It is very clear in what it wants to achieve, and what the OP has done to try and solve the problem. If you believe there to be some issue, please tell the OP in the comments. That's what they're for.
â€“Â Cyclic3
15 mins ago

Please provide sample input and output, and the sed examples you tried. Note that, ingeneral, parsing HTML is not a good idea
â€“Â Jeff Schaller
1 hour ago

it is not html, we clean this document frome very extra charcters we only has </div> and cant moe it out the book
â€“Â Zahi
1 hour ago

Downvoters, what is wrong with this question? It is very clear in what it wants to achieve, and what the OP has done to try and solve the problem. If you believe there to be some issue, please tell the OP in the comments. That's what they're for.
â€“Â Cyclic3
15 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

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If you remove the square brackets, escape the slash before the div>, move the slash before the s to after it, and remove the caret, the regex works:

sed 's/</div>/Index:/g'

edited 21 mins ago

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

@Shervan A slash managed to sneak in when I wasn't looking! I have fixed this.
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

@Shervan yes it is perfect thank you Cyclic3
â€“Â Zahi
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
2
down vote

I see three problems:

The syntax of your sed command is wrong. I believe what you meant was the search and replace command, so the 's' must come before the slash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

The fact that your string has the slash ('/') character in your search string messes up with sed. So you could either escape the slash with a backslash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

or use another character as separator:

sed 's|^[</div>]|Index:|g'

You are using square brackets ([</div>]) in your search, which is not what you want. This expression matches any of the characters inside the square brackets once. Try the following command without square brackets:

sed 's|^</div>|Index:|g'

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

Could the anonymous downvoters please leave some feedback?
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

1

Yeah, this is really disappointing, taking the time to answer a question and getting downvoted without an explanation.
â€“Â Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
18 mins ago

It appears that the whole question, and answers too, have been downvoted.
â€“Â Cyclic3
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

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up vote
7
down vote

accepted

If you remove the square brackets, escape the slash before the div>, move the slash before the s to after it, and remove the caret, the regex works:

sed 's/</div>/Index:/g'

edited 21 mins ago

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

@Shervan A slash managed to sneak in when I wasn't looking! I have fixed this.
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

@Shervan yes it is perfect thank you Cyclic3
â€“Â Zahi
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
7
down vote

accepted

If you remove the square brackets, escape the slash before the div>, move the slash before the s to after it, and remove the caret, the regex works:

sed 's/</div>/Index:/g'

edited 21 mins ago

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

@Shervan A slash managed to sneak in when I wasn't looking! I have fixed this.
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

@Shervan yes it is perfect thank you Cyclic3
â€“Â Zahi
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
7
down vote

accepted

If you remove the square brackets, escape the slash before the div>, move the slash before the s to after it, and remove the caret, the regex works:

sed 's/</div>/Index:/g'

edited 21 mins ago

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

If you remove the square brackets, escape the slash before the div>, move the slash before the s to after it, and remove the caret, the regex works:

sed 's/</div>/Index:/g'

edited 21 mins ago

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

edited 21 mins ago

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

answered 49 mins ago

Cyclic3

580114

@Shervan A slash managed to sneak in when I wasn't looking! I have fixed this.
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

@Shervan yes it is perfect thank you Cyclic3
â€“Â Zahi
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

@Shervan A slash managed to sneak in when I wasn't looking! I have fixed this.
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

@Shervan yes it is perfect thank you Cyclic3
â€“Â Zahi
16 mins ago

@Shervan A slash managed to sneak in when I wasn't looking! I have fixed this.
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

@Shervan yes it is perfect thank you Cyclic3
â€“Â Zahi
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
2
down vote

I see three problems:

The syntax of your sed command is wrong. I believe what you meant was the search and replace command, so the 's' must come before the slash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

The fact that your string has the slash ('/') character in your search string messes up with sed. So you could either escape the slash with a backslash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

or use another character as separator:

sed 's|^[</div>]|Index:|g'

You are using square brackets ([</div>]) in your search, which is not what you want. This expression matches any of the characters inside the square brackets once. Try the following command without square brackets:

sed 's|^</div>|Index:|g'

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

Could the anonymous downvoters please leave some feedback?
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

1

Yeah, this is really disappointing, taking the time to answer a question and getting downvoted without an explanation.
â€“Â Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
18 mins ago

It appears that the whole question, and answers too, have been downvoted.
â€“Â Cyclic3
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
2
down vote

I see three problems:

The syntax of your sed command is wrong. I believe what you meant was the search and replace command, so the 's' must come before the slash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

The fact that your string has the slash ('/') character in your search string messes up with sed. So you could either escape the slash with a backslash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

or use another character as separator:

sed 's|^[</div>]|Index:|g'

You are using square brackets ([</div>]) in your search, which is not what you want. This expression matches any of the characters inside the square brackets once. Try the following command without square brackets:

sed 's|^</div>|Index:|g'

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

Could the anonymous downvoters please leave some feedback?
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

1

Yeah, this is really disappointing, taking the time to answer a question and getting downvoted without an explanation.
â€“Â Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
18 mins ago

It appears that the whole question, and answers too, have been downvoted.
â€“Â Cyclic3
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

up vote
2
down vote

I see three problems:

The syntax of your sed command is wrong. I believe what you meant was the search and replace command, so the 's' must come before the slash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

The fact that your string has the slash ('/') character in your search string messes up with sed. So you could either escape the slash with a backslash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

or use another character as separator:

sed 's|^[</div>]|Index:|g'

You are using square brackets ([</div>]) in your search, which is not what you want. This expression matches any of the characters inside the square brackets once. Try the following command without square brackets:

sed 's|^</div>|Index:|g'

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

I see three problems:

The syntax of your sed command is wrong. I believe what you meant was the search and replace command, so the 's' must come before the slash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

The fact that your string has the slash ('/') character in your search string messes up with sed. So you could either escape the slash with a backslash:

sed 's/^[</div>]/Index:/g'

or use another character as separator:

sed 's|^[</div>]|Index:|g'

You are using square brackets ([</div>]) in your search, which is not what you want. This expression matches any of the characters inside the square brackets once. Try the following command without square brackets:

sed 's|^</div>|Index:|g'

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

answered 30 mins ago

Marcelo Roberto Jimenez

474

Could the anonymous downvoters please leave some feedback?
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

1

Yeah, this is really disappointing, taking the time to answer a question and getting downvoted without an explanation.
â€“Â Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
18 mins ago

It appears that the whole question, and answers too, have been downvoted.
â€“Â Cyclic3
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

Could the anonymous downvoters please leave some feedback?
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

1

Yeah, this is really disappointing, taking the time to answer a question and getting downvoted without an explanation.
â€“Â Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
18 mins ago

It appears that the whole question, and answers too, have been downvoted.
â€“Â Cyclic3
16 mins ago

Could the anonymous downvoters please leave some feedback?
â€“Â Cyclic3
20 mins ago

Yeah, this is really disappointing, taking the time to answer a question and getting downvoted without an explanation.
â€“Â Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
18 mins ago

It appears that the whole question, and answers too, have been downvoted.
â€“Â Cyclic3
16 mins ago

add a commentÂ |Â

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