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# 8  
Old 06-18-2013
This also works fine for me.
What os do you have?

Code:
cat my_file
menu "Application type"
config GUI_TYPE_STANDARD
bool "Standard Application"

source "cfg/config/std.in"
source "cfg/config/cust.in"
source "cfg/config/lang.in"
source "cfg/config/type.in"
endmenu

Code:
awk '/^source/{sub("cfg/config","./non_Profile/app",$0);print}' my_file
source "./non_Profile/app/std.in"
source "./non_Profile/app/cust.in"
source "./non_Profile/app/lang.in"
source "./non_Profile/app/type.in"

# 9  
Old 06-18-2013
Hi,
I got the issue bit don't know how to fix it.
Actually my file has spaces in front of every line that's why it was not working. When I tried by removing spaces from every line it worked !!! but unfortunately I can not avoid those spaces and has deal with it. Can you please help me ?

Code:
            menu "Application type"
                       config GUI_TYPE_STANDARD
             bool "Standard Application"

            source "cfg/config/std.in"
            source "cfg/config/cust.in"
            source "cfg/config/lang.in"
            source "cfg/config/type.in"

           endmenu

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-18-2013 at 01:59 PM.. Reason: icode tags changed to code tags
# 10  
Old 06-18-2013
This should fix it.
Code:
awk '{$1=$1} /^source/{sub("cfg/config","./non_Profile/app",$0);print}'

You can also remove the ^
Code:
awk '/source/{sub("cfg/config","./non_Profile/app",$0);print}'

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# 11  
Old 06-18-2013
Or perhaps this?
Code:
sed -n 's|cfg/config/|./non_Profile/app|p' file

--
Quote:
Originally Posted by anand.shah
[..]Actually my file has spaces in front of every line that's why it was not working.
Actually all this confusion could have been avoided if proper code tags would have been used for those data samples.. I have added them in post #1 and see how it looks now..
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-18-2013 at 02:11 PM..
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# 12  
Old 06-19-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jotne
This should fix it.
Code:
awk '{$1=$1} /^source/{sub("cfg/config","./non_Profile/app",$0);print}'

You can also remove the ^
Code:
awk '/source/{sub("cfg/config","./non_Profile/app",$0);print}'

/source/ is too unprecise and risky.
$1~/source/ is okay, and $1=="source" is precise.
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# 13  
Old 06-20-2013
Thank you everyone. Your solution worked !!!
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