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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using varible/varible substitution in Perl/sed Search & Replace Post 20911 by Kelam_Magnus on Tuesday 7th of May 2002 02:13:42 PM
Old 05-07-2002
here is a link to some thing that may help.
https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?s...&highlight=sed

You could just as easily use sed instead of perl. Also, your match may be failing. It is possible that when you capture the value for $i that it is not matching properly.

Also I would try executing the sed/perl statement from the command line to see what it does there.

Here is my attempt. Here is my input file and the output after I execute the command line.

Every other line has a # in it...

/root> cat toddfile
# This is a test
This is a test
# This is a test
This is a test
# This is a test
This is a test
# This is a test
This is a test
# This is a test

Here is the execution of the command line and output...

root> sed -e 's/\#/Not-Implimented/' toddfile
Not-Implimented This is a test
This is a test
Not-Implimented This is a test
This is a test
Not-Implimented This is a test
This is a test
Not-Implimented This is a test
This is a test
Not-Implimented This is a test


Now that I look at your script, I think that the "grep" is the problem.
Last edited by Kelam_Magnus; 05-07-2002 at 03:29 PM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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       -v, --verbose
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	   Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.

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	   No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.

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