02-22-2013
sed to replace specific positions on line with file contents
Hi, I am trying to use an awk command to replace specific character positions on a line beginning with 80 with contents of another file.
The line beginning with 80 in file1 is as follows:
Quote:
80................................000000000178800.000010........................
I want to replace the 000000000178800 (positions 34 - 49) on this file with the contents of amended_file_01 -> 000000000206100
The command i am using is:
Quote:
sed '/^80/s/\(^.\{34\}\).\{15\}\(.*\)/\1$amended_file01\2/' file1
The output from this command should be
Quote:
80................................000000000206100.000010........................
But it is returning the filename instead of the file contents
Quote:
80................................$amended_file01.000010........................
How would i get the command to return the file contents instead of the filename?
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NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
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With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
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OPTIONS
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AVAILABILITY
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AUTHOR
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