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# 1  
Old 03-22-2010
Not able to pass string with spaces in shell
I have to pass a sentence in a file, the specs are as:

Code:
cat run | sed 's/SRT/'$8'/g'  | sed 's/plength/68/g'  | sed 's/stcol/'$5'/g' | sed 's/encol/'$6'/g' | sed 's/brdtype/'$1'/g' | sed 's/brdtxt/'$3'/g' | sed 's/demotxt/Total '$2'/g' | sed 's/bantxt/ban_'$7'/g' | sed 's/validcodes/'$4'/g' > runx

Code:
TEXT = "Power Tools or Accessories"
source run.do POWERTOOLS "$TEXT" powertools 012:042 1242 4242 power1 nosort

Here at demotxt I have to pass a string "Power Tools or Accessories", but i am getting only blanks with this specs in the output file

Out put I am getting
Code:
*include idemo.axe;btxt=Total

and output desired is
Code:
*include idemo.axe;btxt=Total Power Tools or Accessories

Please help me out...
Last edited by pludi; 03-22-2010 at 03:57 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 03-22-2010
Not very clear
what contains 'run' ?
what's 'run.do' ?
the sed line could be written whithout cat & pipe :
Code:
 sed -e 's/SRT/'$8'/g' -e 's/plength/68/g' -e 's/stcol/'$5'/g' -e 's/encol/'$6'/g' -e 's/brdtype/'$1'/g' -e 's/brdtxt/'$3'/g' -e 's/demotxt/Total '$2'/g' -e 's/bantxt/ban_'$7'/g' -e 's/validcodes/'$4'/g' run > runx

# 3  
Old 03-22-2010
My suspicion is that nothing is wrong with your sed line (save for the fact that it could be written more easily as frans has pointed out) but the problem is here (marked red):

Code:
TEXT = "Power Tools or Accessories"

In practically all shells whitespace are special characters and there mustn't be any spaces in variable declarations:

Code:
x="abc"
x = "abc"

will yield different results with the first line probably giving the expected one.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 4  
Old 03-22-2010
still not working
I have tried by deleting blanks but it's thorwing error like unidentified reference...

and then I have changed it as TEXT ="Power Tools or Accessories"
then I am getting blank in the output

i am working on some another softwere and "run" is the file I actually need to run, but i have about 50 statements like the one I am passing and just to avoind the lenght of the scripting i want to pass this somwhow....

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Quote:
Originally Posted by frans
Not very clear
what contains 'run' ?
what's 'run.do' ?
the sed line could be written whithout cat & pipe :
Code:
 sed -e 's/SRT/'$8'/g' -e 's/plength/68/g' -e 's/stcol/'$5'/g' -e 's/encol/'$6'/g' -e 's/brdtype/'$1'/g' -e 's/brdtxt/'$3'/g' -e 's/demotxt/Total '$2'/g' -e 's/bantxt/ban_'$7'/g' -e 's/validcodes/'$4'/g' run > runx



Thanks Frans, i am really not that familiar with shell and trying to make my work somewhat easier by googling for shell, and really thnx for letting e know this new way of scrpting..
# 5  
Old 03-22-2010
not TEXT ="Power Tools or Accessories"
but TEXT="Power Tools or Accessories"
# 6  
Old 03-22-2010
it's throwing error
have tried this one also but it's throwing error and output came as blank completely
# 7  
Old 03-22-2010
In this case post some complete data: the script, the input, the associated files, the desired output. Otherwise it is like trying to solve a puzzle you are not allowed to even know.

bakunin
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