how to change the content thru sed.....

manas_ranjan · #1 (**permalink**) 09-19-2007

Hi Everybody,

Another headache form myside,

i have a file name noname.txt having content as
CS007=NEW

and i have to write a scipt which will take the parameters as update,delete... with the 1st field of noname.txt (i.e. here CS007)
whose objective is to change the 2nd field of noname.txt as update or delete as per the input.

how can i achieve this for the following line.......
sed ' /CS007/ c\CS007=UPDATE' noname.txt using the variables...

like

sed ' /$1/ c\$1=$2' noname.txt

any other suggestions are also welcome....

pbsrinivas · #2 (**permalink**) 09-19-2007

sed " /$1/ c\$1=$2" noname.txt

should do...

Yogesh Sawant · #3 (**permalink**) 09-19-2007

An alternative in Perl:

Code:

perl -pi -e "s/(CS007=)NEW/\1UPDATE/" noname.txt

but probably this doesn't fit your requirement

manas_ranjan · #4 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007

Thanx a lot....

the following method is also working,

'/'"$1"'/ c\'"$1"="$2"

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