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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting replace a string with content from another file Post 302088707 by ghostdog74 on Thursday 14th of September 2006 12:46:24 AM
Old 09-14-2006
while a shell solution is on the way , here is an alternative, in Python

Code:
>>> import fileinput
>>> Bcontents = open("fileB").read() #fileB contents stored as string
>>> for lines in fileinput.FileInput("fileA",inplace=1): #inplace editing of fileA
... 	lines = lines.strip() #get rid of newlines
... 	if lines.startswith("xxxx"):
... 		lines = Bcontents
... 	print lines

In fileA:

bor bor bor
something something
something
bib bib bi
Last edited by ghostdog74; 09-14-2006 at 02:03 AM..
 

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