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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed - Replace Line which contains the Pattern match with a new line Post 302112000 by cfajohnson on Saturday 24th of March 2007 12:10:15 AM
Old 03-24-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by kousikan
I need to replace the line containing "STAGE_DB" with the line
"STAGE_DB $DB # database that contains the table being loaded ($workingDB)"

Here $DB is passed during the runtime.

Code:
sed "s/STAGE_DB/STAGE_DB    $DB    # database that contains the table being loaded ($workingDB)/" FILE > tempfile

 

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Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		     Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)

NAME
Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line - Model to represent a line in a feature file VERSION
version 0.11 DESCRIPTION
Model to represent a line in a feature file ATTRIBUTES
number The line number this line represents document The Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Document object this line belongs to. raw_content The content of the line, unmodified METHODS
indent Returns the number of preceding spaces before content on a line content Returns the line's content, with the indentation stripped content_remove_indentation Accepts an int of number of spaces, and returns the content with exactly that many preceding spaces removed. debug_summary Returns a string with the filename and line number filename Returns either the filename, or the string "[String]" if the document was loaded from a string is_blank is_comment Return true if the line is either blank, or is a comment. AUTHOR
Peter Sergeant "pete@clueball.com" LICENSE
Copyright 2011, Peter Sergeant; Licensed under the same terms as Perl perl v5.14.2 2012-05-20 Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)
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