Not hot on sed..
I have the string
<Report name="05/14/14 05:05:53 AM - Report">
in a file.
I need to change the date and time part to the current date and time..
any sed regex to match the date format and timestamp?
coding101
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L7Sqr
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If the format is consistent enough, you can just match the surrounding pieces. For example:
sed 's;Report name=".* - Report";Report name="'"`date +"%D %I:%M:%S %p"`"' - Report";'
which results in:
[ezpz@mercury (tmp)]$ cat t.t
<Report name="05/14/14 05:05:53 AM - Report">
[ezpz@mercury (tmp)]$ sed 's;Report name=".* - Report";Report name="'"`date +"%D %I:%M:%S %p"`"' - Report";' t.t
<Report name="05/14/14 10:51:26 PM - Report">
Matching the exact date string becomes a little trickier...
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