Replacing string in file with MAC OSX

Question

I need to replace a string in a (large) file on a MacOSX 10.10. My file looks like this:

Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB-
Y16-TUL-SUB_ Y16-TUL-SUB_

and I need to replace Y16_TUL_SUB_ with Y16-TUL-SUB-. File name could be test.txt.

I have tried a lot of the different suggestions with sed, awk and python. E.g this:

#!/usr/bin/env python import sys import os import tempfile

 tmp=tempfile.mkstemp()

 with open(sys.argv[1]) as fd1, open(tmp[1],'w') as fd2:
     for line in fd1:
         line = line.replace('Y16_TUL_SUB_','Y16-TUL-SUB-')
         fd2.write(line)

 os.rename(tmp[1],sys.argv[1])

or sed supposedly for mac

or find:

 find . -type f -name test.txt | xargs sed -i ""
 "s/Y16_TUL_SUB_/Y16-TUL-SUB-/g'

or sed:

 sed -i -e "s/Y16_TUL_SUB_/Y16-TUL-SUB/g" test.txt

or awk

 awk '{gsub(/Y16_TUL_SUB_/,"Y16-TUL-SUB")}' test.txt

All these commands have run and returned empty output files, or not changed anything in the original files anyway.

What am I doing wrong?

Solution 1

How it to do with sed in OS X.

I've created test file:

$ cat test.txt
tasdasdasd

asd
asd
as
d
as
d
ddddddd

ffdfdfdfdfdf

Calling sed ('' is necessarily parameter):

$ sed -i '' "s/as/replaced_ad/g" test.txt

Show output file:

$ cat test.txt
treplaced_addreplaced_addreplaced_add

replaced_add
replaced_add
replaced_ad
d
replaced_ad
d
ddddddd

ffdfdfdfdfdf

sed in OS X is slightly changes from GNU sed. Use man sed in OS X terminal to know how to use sed.

Solution 2

Weird. Replacing " with ' apparently worked.

sed -i '' "s/as/replaced_ad/g" test.txt

did nothing, whereas

sed -i '' 's/as/replaced_ad/g' test.txt

gave me what I needed. ?????

I thought there were no difference between single and double quotes on machos?????

Well, as long as I can go on with my work..... Thanks Yurij, again.

Comments

[Christoffer Bugge Harder]

Hi Yurij, I appreciate your help, but unfortunately this does nothing for me. Once again, no changes in file. :( Output file is empty

[Christoffer Bugge Harder]

When I copy-paste (or write myself) your EXACT command on the EXACT file you display, the output file I get is empty.

[chill appreciator]

This exact command worked for me on Catalina. But I have ohmyzsh, maybe it changes standard sed