03-27-2006
inserting a String in the file(s)
Hi,
I'm a newbee to Unix shell scripting.
I want to write a shell script that inserts a new String(name&value pair) into a file(s) at a particular place.I willl have to write one script which when executed should insert a new variable in all the files in that particular directory.
Say for eg:
I have one variable called PATH in the file and next to this PATH variable in the new line I have to insert/add a new variable.
PATH=jdk
test=value //i will have to add this variable after path .
I have tried doing this with 'sed' but am unsuccessful.
This is what I have written(this might be wrong and also is incomplete).
i="PATH"
x=`basename $0`
for FILE in `grep -l ${i} * | grep -v $x`
do
//here the code for inserting the new variable should come
done
Please help me in this.
Thanks.
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