06-26-2002
Cool this seems to work. The problem I have now is that the string I am trying to insert contains the ' character which conflicts with the sed '1i\ line. Ordaniril they get ignored.
If I try to escape this string:
sed '1i\
EXEC PR_DbConfigStart \'test.txt\', \'10\', \'DESCRIPTION\' \
GO ' < $FILENAME > $TMPFILENAME
I get this error
syntax error at line 8 : `'' unmatched
if I try to build the string in an environment variable and rely on substitution, the string does nt seem to get substituted.
DBCONFIGSTART="EXEC PR_DbConfigStart 'test.txt', '10', 'DESCRIPTION' \nGO"
sed '1i\
$DBCONFIGSTART ' <test2.txt
producing this output
$DBCONFIGSTART
rest of file text.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can resolve this
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dh-exec-subst
DH-EXEC-SUBST(1) dh-exec DH-EXEC-SUBST(1)
NAME
dh-exec-subst - Debhelper executable file substition scripts
SYNOPSIS
#! /usr/bin/dh-exec
src/libfoo-*.so.* debian/foo-plugins/usr/lib/foo/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/
DESCRIPTION
Being a sub-command of dh-exec(1), this program must not be ran directly, but through dh-exec, which automatically runs all available
sub-commands if run bare; or explicitly with dh-exec --with=subst.
It is a wrapper around the various other substitution helpers, and will pipe the input file through all the available substitution helpers.
It is up to these scripts to do the actual work.
When a helper fails to expand a variable within its input, it will leave it as-is, so that later in the pipeline it can perhaps be expanded
by another program.
SCRIPTS
dh-exec-subst-env
Substitutes any of the available, exported environment variables into its input. It does not do any kind of filtering: whatever is
available in the environment, will be available for substitution, however unsafe that may be.
dh-exec-subst-multiarch
Attempts to expand any of the variables known to dpkg-architecture(1), mostly useful for multi-arch support.
The command will query dpkg-architecture(1) directly, and does not rely on environment variables set (as the called program will
prefer already set environment variables anyway).
ENVIRONMENT
DH_EXEC_SCRIPTDIR
Indicates which directory the command-specific scripts should be sought for. If not specified, scripts will be searched for in
/usr/share/dh-exec/.
FILES
$DH_EXEC_SCRIPTDIR/dh-exec-subst-*
The various scripts for the higher-level program.
SEE ALSO
debhelper(1), dh-exec(1)
AUTHOR
dh-exec-subst is copyright (C) 2011-2012 by Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>.
2012-05-03 DH-EXEC-SUBST(1)