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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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sendsms

sendsms(1)							      gnokii								sendsms(1)

NAME

       sendsms - command line tool to send SMSes using gnokii

SYNOPSIS

       sendsms [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       sendsms	allows	you  to  send a SMS using gnokii not knowing the syntax of gnokii command. It is written using dialog and allows to send a
       text SMS choosing recipients from the phone address book or entering it manually.

   OPTIONS
       Available options:

       [--debug|-D]
	      May bother with more debugging messages. For debugging purpose.

       --simul[ate], -S
	      Simulation mode. Doesn't really send SMS by phone. Only simulates. For debugging purpose.

       --forceSMread, -s
	      Forces sendsms to read phonebook from SIM card, and to parse the generated file in order to update the numbers' list (useful only if
	      required to pickup number from the phone's memory). See NOTE.

       --forceMEread, -m
	      Forces  sendsms  to  read  phonebook from phone memory, and to parse the generated file in order to update the numbers' list (useful
	      only if required to pickup number from the phone's memory). See NOTE.

       --skipgnokiicheck, -K
	      Skip the test of the presence of binary 'gnokii'. (It must be somewhere in your $PATH).  It allows you to try this  script  program,
	      even if you don't have 'gnokii' already. ;)

       --smsset, --setsms
	      Allows  you  to  preset  a  SMS message from STDIN. (pipe or input redirection).	This message will be proposed on the 'SMS message'
	      field during the program input cycle.

       --help, -h, /h
	      display this help and exit

       --version, -V
	      output version information and exit"

       NOTE:  If you require to pickup number from phone's memory (or from SIM card), for the first time, it  anyway  reads  phonebook	from  your
	      mobile phone.  (It may take a while... please, be patient ;-)

BUGS

       None reported.

AUTHOR

       Sendsms was written by Gabriele Zappi - Rimini <gzappi@inwind.it>.

       This manual page was written by Pawel Kot.

COPYING

       This program is distributed under the GNU Public License.

SEE ALSO

       gnokii

Pawel Kot							  August 29, 2003							sendsms(1)
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