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With my shell script, when I run ./Test1 hello result.
It is supposed to take hello as standard input and result as standard output. The shell should remove any whitespace before <td>, </td>, and abc
So, I write the script this way
tr -d [:blank:] < $1
grep -r "<td>" $1 | sed -r 's/<td>//g' > $2
sed -r 's/<\/td>//g' $2
sed -r 's/abc//g' $2
However, when I run this command, the content of result file is exactly the same as the content of hello file (the only difference is the whitespace is removed)
The file hello content:
<td>hello</td>
<td>hello</td>
<td>hello</td>
<td>abc</td>
<td>abc</td>
How do I get sed to apply the change to the target file?
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If you want to store the changes from sed back to the file use the -i option:
$ cat file
<head>abc</head>
<td>hello</td>
<td>hello</td>
<td>hello</td>
<td>abc</td>
<td>abc</td>
<h1>abc</h1>
$ sed -ni '/<td>/{s/^\s*//;s/abc//;s/<\/\?td>//g;p}' file
$ cat file
hello
hello
hello
Edit: The regexp is clearer if we use a different separator with sed and use the extended regexp option -r:
$ sed -r 's_</?td>__g' file
hello
hello
hello
abc
abc
The ? make the previous character optional so the / doesn't have to be present making the regexp match <td> and </td> in one.
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