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Old 01-15-2013
How to use variables in 'sed' append command?

HELLO!!

I'm trying to pass a variable with in the 'sed' command (which would add some piece of code to file at a particular line). We can use

Code:
sed '{line-number}a\
alfjaljf\
aslfjsfsjafl\
adlfjaf\' file.txt

If file.txt is
Quote:
<Property>
<name>abc</name>
<value>10</value>
</Property>
<Property>
<name>xyz</name>
<value>23</value>
</Property>
<Property>
<name>uvw</name>
<value>08</value>
</Property>
Now, I would like to add the parameter 'lmn' after 'abc' property. I tried this:
Code:
sed '4a\
\t<Property>\
\t\t<name>lmn</name>\
\t\t<value>90<\/value>\
\t<\/Property>' file.txt > file1.txt

But I want to grep the line number of 'abc' and then based on the line number i would like to perform the append using sed command.
here is my code:
Code:
#! /bin/bash
a=`grep -n "<name>abc</name>" file.txt` | awk '{print $1}'`
b=`echo ${a%?}`
c=`expr b+2`
sed '$ca\
\t<Property>\
\t\t<name>lmn</name>\
\t\t<value>90<\/value>\
\t<\/Property>' file.txt > file1.txt

But this is not working. Can anyone help me please??? SmilieSmilie
 

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grcompiler(1)															     grcompiler(1)

NAME
grcompiler - Compile GDL into a TrueType Font SYNOPSIS
grcompiler [-d] [-D] [-g] [-n number] [-v number] [-w number] [-wall] [-q] gdl-file font-file [output-file] [output-fontname] Description Grcompiler compiles a Graphite Description Language description of the smarts for a font along with a TrueType Font to create a graphite font with graphite tables in it. -d Generate XML debugger file. -D Generate all debugger files. -g Permit and ignore invalid glyph definitions. -nnumber Set name table start location. -q Quiet mode (no messages except on error). -vnumber Set Silf table version number. -wnnnn Ignore warning with the given number. This option may be repeated. -wall Display all warnings. Environment grcompiler makes use of the following environment variables GDLPP Specifies the command to execute to run the GDL preprocessor Files gdlerr.txt Warnings and errors are output to this file. dbg_classes.txt Debug file that specifies the classes stored in the font in terms of their GDL source and containing glyph ids in hex. dbg_cmap.txt Debug file giving Unicode to glyph mapping of all the glyphs in the font and vice versa. dbg_enginecode.txt Debug file containing the action code and constraint code associated with each pass and rule in a pass. dbg_fsm.txt Debug file that gives the finite state machines of each pass and the rules referenced. For each pass, a mapping is given between glyph and column number. dbg_glyphattrs.txt Debug file containing all the glyph attributes and their names, along with values specified for each glyph. dbg_parsetree.txt Debug file giving the complete parse tree of the GDL source file. dbg_ruleprec.txt Debug file that lists the rules in precedence order (order in which they will be tested) for each pass. $_temp.gdl Debug file containing the output of gdlpp Author Martin Hosken <mhosken@users.sourceforge.net> $Date: 2012-05-29 11:36:50 $ grcompiler(1)
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