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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed and changing the file itself Post 302160831 by danmero on Tuesday 22nd of January 2008 10:19:19 PM
Old 01-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by melanie_pfefer
hello

I have this:
sed -e "s/install_location=....../g" -e "s/hostname=....../g" -e "s/server_name=....../y" input.txt

it will display on the screen what have changed. however I want to change file input.txt. Any idea other than doing redirection (>)

thx
If your sed support -i switch(backup file).
Code:
 
sed -i .bak -e "s/install_location=....../g" -e "s/hostname=....../g" -e "s/server_name=....../y" input.txt && rm input.txt.bak || mv -f input.txt.bak input.txt

If sed fail, restore the file from backup, if not remove the backup file.
 

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x2sys_merge

X2SYS_MERGE(1gmt)					       Generic Mapping Tools						 X2SYS_MERGE(1gmt)

NAME

       x2sys_merge - Merge an updated COEs tables

SYNOPSIS

       x2sys_merge -Amain_COElist.d -Mnew_COElist.d

DESCRIPTION

       x2sys_merge  will read two crossovers data base and output the contents of the main one updated with the COEs in the second one. The second
       file should only contain updated COEs relatively to the first one.  That is, it MUST NOT contain any new  two  tracks  intersections  (This
       point  is  NOT checked in the code). This program is useful when, for any good reason like file editing NAV correction or whatever, one had
       to recompute only the COEs between the edited files and the rest of the database.

       -A     Specify the file main_COElist.d with the main crossover error data base.

       -M     Specify the file new_COElist.d with the newly computed crossover error data base.

OPTIONS

       No space between the option flag and the associated arguments.

       EXAMPLES
	      To update the main COE_data.txt with the new COEs estimations saved in the smaller COE_fresh.txt, try

	      x2sys_merge -ACOE_data.txt -MCOE_fresh.txt > COE_updated.txt

SEE ALSO

       x2sys_binlist(1), x2sys_cross(1), x2sys_datalist(1), x2sys_get(1), x2sys_init(1), x2sys_list(1), x2sys_put(1), x2sys_report(1)

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