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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Swapping or switching 2 lines using sed Post 302248336 by LaTortuga on Friday 17th of October 2008 10:28:30 AM
Old 10-17-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
You can use a variable as follow:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
 
line=3
 
awk -v var="$line" 'NR==var {
  s=$0
  getline;s=$0"\n"s
  getline;print;print s
  next
}1' file

Regards
Right, so now this code switches line "var" (which for this example is set at 3), with a line two below it...but how do I switch line "var" with say another line defined by another variable, say "var2"?...or would this code not be able to do that?...I know I probably should've asked for this caveat at the outset, my apologies.
 

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LOGIN(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  LOGIN(3)

NAME
login, logout, logwtmp -- login utility functions (DEPRECATED) SYNOPSIS
#include <util.h> void login(struct utmp *ut); int logout(const char *line); void logwtmp(const char *line, const char *name, const char *host); DESCRIPTION
The login(), logout(), and logwtmp() functions are DEPRECATED; use pututxline(3) instead. These functions operate on the database of current users in /var/run/utmpx and the system log file. Superuser permission is required. The login() function updates the /var/run/utmpx files with user information contained in ut (after converting to a struct utmpx, as described in pututxline(3)). The logout() function removes the entry from /var/run/utmpx corresponding to the device line. The logwtmp() function adds an entry to the system log file. Since login() will add the appropriate entry during a login, logwtmp() is usu- ally used for logouts. RETURN VALUES
logout() returns non-zero if it was able to find and delete an entry for line, and zero if there is no entry for line in /var/run/utmpx. However, there is no error indication due to lack of permissions. FILES
/dev/* /var/run/utmpx SEE ALSO
pututxline(3), utmp(5), utmpx(5) BSD
December 14, 1995 BSD
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