Complete Newbie requiring help

snoops · #1 (**permalink**) 09-25-2009

Greetings

Just joined this forum and a complete newbie. So please be gentle

I've never really scripted before nor had a project where I required to write some code. However I have a large project which I am currently doing by manually. I was wondering if someone could help me determine what scripting language to use and possibly help with assisting me with what needs to be done.

I have a file with entries in the following format

[some text.......RedHat]
rubbish text
more text

more text

[some text.......SUSE]
rubbish text
more text

more text

[some text.......Solaris]

What I would like to create is a script that takes arguments (in this case RedHat,SUSE and Solaris] and then searches a file. When it reaches the first argument it copies the entire section starting from [ and ending when it gets to the next [.

With each section, it replaces 'rubbish' with 'good' and it saves it to a file in the format <argument>.txt

Thank you for any help offered or advice offered.

Snoops

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