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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting replace a string with content from another file Post 302088686 by afatguy on Wednesday 13th of September 2006 10:18:25 PM
Old 09-13-2006
replace a string with content from another file
Hi,
I'm a newbi in shell script. Here what I want to do:

FileA:
bor bor bor
xxxx
bib bib bi

FileB:

something something
something

I want to replace string "xxxx" in FileA with contents of FileB.
i tried with sed:

fileb=`cat FileB`
reg=xxxx
file=FileA

sed -e "s+$reg+$fileb+g" $file

but it said:
sed: Function s+reg+ cannot be parsed.

thanks,
 

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exosip2_registration

eXosip2 REGISTER and Registration Management(3) 		    libeXosip2			   eXosip2 REGISTER and Registration Management(3)

NAME

       eXosip2 REGISTER and Registration Management -

   Functions
       int eXosip_register_build_initial_register (const char *from, const char *proxy, const char *contact, int expires, osip_message_t **reg)
       int eXosip_register_build_initial_register_withqvalue (const char *from, const char *proxy, const char *contact, int expires, const char
	   *qvalue, osip_message_t **reg)
       int eXosip_register_build_register (int rid, int expires, osip_message_t **reg)
       int eXosip_register_send_register (int rid, osip_message_t *reg)
       int eXosip_register_remove (int rid)

Detailed Description
Function Documentation
   int eXosip_register_build_initial_register (const char *from, const char *proxy, const char *contact, intexpires, osip_message_t **reg)
       Build initial REGISTER request.

       Parameters:
	   from SIP url for caller.
	   proxy Proxy used for registration.
	   contact Contact address. (optional)
	   expires The expires value for registration.
	   reg The SIP request to build.

   int eXosip_register_build_initial_register_withqvalue (const char *from, const char *proxy, const char *contact, intexpires, const char
       *qvalue, osip_message_t **reg)
       Build initial REGISTER request with qvalue for contact.

       Parameters:
	   from SIP url for caller.
	   proxy Proxy used for registration.
	   contact Contact address. (optional)
	   expires The expires value for registration.
	   qvalue The qvalue value for contact header.
	   reg The SIP request to build.

   int eXosip_register_build_register (intrid, intexpires, osip_message_t **reg)
       Build a new REGISTER request for an existing registration.

       Parameters:
	   rid A unique identifier for the registration context
	   expires The expires value for registration.
	   reg The SIP request to build.

   int eXosip_register_send_register (intrid, osip_message_t *reg)
       Send a REGISTER request for an existing registration.

       Parameters:
	   rid A unique identifier for the registration context
	   reg The SIP request to build. (NULL for default REGISTER)

   int eXosip_register_remove (intrid)
       Remove existing registration without sending REGISTER.

       Parameters:
	   rid A unique identifier for the registration context

Author
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