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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed unterminated `s' command? Post 302418577 by alister on Tuesday 4th of May 2010 08:38:40 PM
Old 05-04-2010
Hello, donnacha, and welcome to the forums.

For starters, your variable names don't match up (from1 vs from, to1 vs to), although I don't think that's the source of the problem (perhaps that's just a typo in the post). I suspect that the problem is that the values of the from1 and to1 variables will contain multiple lines if there are multiple files that match the *eml pattern. The embedded newlines are almost certainly what is causing the problem with the sed command.

Perhaps something akin to the following will suit your needs:
Code:
for f in *eml; do
    sed -i "s/SMS/SMS $(head -n1 "$f") to $(sed -n '2p' "$f")/g" "$f"
done

Regards,
Alister
 

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undbx(1)							       undbx								  undbx(1)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       undbx is a tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mails messages from Outlook Express .dbx files.

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