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# 8  
Old 12-03-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
Perhaps something like this

Code:
#! /bin/sh

rev=$(echo $1 | sed -e 's/\(.\)\(.\)/\2\1 /g')

str1='string1 = "#987";'
str2='string2 = "#'$rev';'
 
sed -e "/^[\/]*string[12]/d" -e "s/\(data = .*\)/$str1\n\1\n$str2/g" input.txt


Hi Vino

I am getting the output in a single line as
string1 = "#987";ndata = check(string1);nstring2 = "#21 43 65 87 59";
instead of getting in three lines. "n" is added to each word.
How to implement newline functionality?
# 9  
Old 12-03-2007
Code:
sed -e "/^[\/]*string[12]/d" -e "s/\(data = .*\)/$str1\\n\1\\n$str2/g" input.txt

# 10  
Old 12-03-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
Code:
sed -e "/^[\/]*string[12]/d" -e "s/\(data = .*\)/$str1\\n\1\\n$str2/g" input.txt

Hi Vino

Still the result is the same.coming in a single line with n added to each word.!!
# 11  
Old 12-03-2007
It works well for me.

Code:
[~]$ cat try
#! /bin/sh
rev=$(echo $1 | sed -e 's/\(.\)\(.\)/\2\1 /g')

str1='string1 = "#987";'
str2='string2 = "#'$rev';'
 
sed -e "/^[\/]*string[12]/d" -e "s/\(data = .*\)/$str1\\n\1\\n$str2/g" /tmp/try
[~]$ ./try 123456789
#Header 1231
xyz
asdf
asdapsdcsd
string1 = "#987";
data = check(string1)
string2 = "#21 43 65 87 9;
print "abcd ";
return xy
[~]$

Try this
Code:
sed -e "/^[\/]*string[12]/d" -e "s/\(data = .*\)/$str1
\1
$str2/g" /tmp/try

Each of those lines are actual new lines.
# 12  
Old 12-03-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
It works well for me.

Code:
[~]$ cat try
#! /bin/sh
rev=$(echo $1 | sed -e 's/\(.\)\(.\)/\2\1 /g')

str1='string1 = "#987";'
str2='string2 = "#'$rev';'
 
sed -e "/^[\/]*string[12]/d" -e "s/\(data = .*\)/$str1\\n\1\\n$str2/g" /tmp/try
[~]$ ./try 123456789
#Header 1231
xyz
asdf
asdapsdcsd
string1 = "#987";
data = check(string1)
string2 = "#21 43 65 87 9;
print "abcd ";
return xy
[~]$

Try this
Code:
sed -e "/^[\/]*string[12]/d" -e "s/\(data = .*\)/$str1
\1
$str2/g" /tmp/try

Each of those lines are actual new lines.

Hi

I tried the second approach. Getting this error


UX:sed: ERROR: Command garbled: s/\(data = .*\)/string1 = "#987#";
# 13  
Old 12-03-2007
Post the output of uname -a and sed --version
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