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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script to replace tokens in multiple files Post 302250501 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 23rd of October 2008 01:30:33 PM
Old 10-23-2008
Yes, we can help you do that, but we need some examples
ie. input and expected output.
control file name control.ctl:
Code:
value=1 value=32
value7=a value7=b

Code:
for file in *.txt
do
      while read old new
      do
          sed "s/$old/$new" "$file" > tmp
          mv tmp "$file"
      done < control.ctl
done

This will not always work, especially when you try to replace what are regex metacharacters.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

roundup-ctl

ROUNDUP-CTL(1)						      General Commands Manual						    ROUNDUP-CTL(1)

NAME

       roundup-ctl - roundup server control interface

SYNOPSIS

       roundup-ctl [options] command

DESCRIPTION

       roundup-ctl  is	a front end to the roundup server.  It is designed to help the administrator control the functioning of the roundup server
       daemon. This script mimics most of the behaviour of a regular init script, but works as a front end to the runit  package  to  control  the
       roundup	service. So, in order to use this, you need the runit package, too. Please note that using this script is mostly incompatible with
       having roundup controlled by runit directly in the form of automatic startup.

       The roundup-ctl script returns a 0 exit value on success, and >0 if an error occurs. For more details, view the comments in the script.

OPTIONS

       -d directory
	      Use given directory as service directory.

COMMANDS

       The command can be any one or more of the following options:

       start  If the roundup server is not runinng, start it. If the server stops, restart it.	stop Stops the roundup server.	status Print  sta-
	      tus of the roundup server.

SEE ALSO

       roundup-server(1) runsvctrl(8) runsvstat(8) svwaitdown(8)

AUTHOR

       Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>, Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>

								    31 May 2004 						    ROUNDUP-CTL(1)
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