cat infile | sed 's/NOT NULL//g'
should do it as well ...
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Tamsin wrote:
> in vi you can type : and then 1,$s/oldstring/newstring/g
> where 1 means start from the first line, $ means until the end of the file,
> oldstring is what you want to replace, newstring is what you want to replace
> it with, and the g means do it globally throughout the file.
>
> e.g. 1,$s/NOT NULL//g should work
>
> Hope this helps
> Tamsin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-novice-owner@hub.org [mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@hub.org]On
> Behalf Of Dan Browning
> Sent: 11 September 2000 15:16
> To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org; redhat-list@redhat.com;
> jsokel@mdsi-usa.com
> Subject: [NOVICE] cat infile | translate all occurences of "NOT NULL" to
> ""
>
>
> what command do I use to substitute all occurences of a certain string (say,
> "NOT NULL") with another arbitrary string, (e.g. "")? I've tried grep and
> tr, but can't figure it out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Browning
> Network & Database Administrator
> Cyclone Computer Systems
>
>
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