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for a file: trying to sed all hex ff0aff strings to 202020
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Hi,
cat /your/file | sed -e 's/ff0aff/202020/g' -e 's/FF0AFF/202020/g' > /your/new_file
line 1 cat the file and pipe it to sed
line 2 execute sed command substitute string/ff0aff/ by /202020/ whith global substitutions along the line
line 3 same as line 2 if the hexa is in upper case
last line redirect the result to a new file
cat /your/file | sed -e 's/ff0aff/202020/g' -e 's/FF0AFF/202020/g' > /your/new_file
line 1 cat the file and pipe it to sed
line 2 execute sed command substitute string/ff0aff/ by /202020/ whith global substitutions along the line
line 3 same as line 2 if the hexa is in upper case
last line redirect the result to a new file
I think in the ytakbob's file there are the binary X'FF0AFF' sequence and not the literal values so the sed should be a little different.
They are hexadecimal values and you can specify only octal values FF0AFF will become \377\012\377 so probably it will become:
cat file|sed 's/\377\012\377/ /g' > new_file
They are hexadecimal values and you can specify only octal values FF0AFF will become \377\012\377 so probably it will become:
cat file|sed 's/\377\012\377/ /g' > new_file
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