10-23-2008
Okay, I have about, 8 variables(now that I think about it, variable isn't the best name for them. More just tags that I have created in the following format to make it easy to replace them manually, which I am now trying to do with a script). All named in this format
@tag1@
@tag2@
@tag3@
etc
.
.
.
Now the text inside the @..@ tag doesn't follow the naming convention of tag1.2.3.4.... etc, but it was just easier to use that on here.
The file names that hold these tags are as follows:
startTestABC
stopTestABC
deleteABC
rotateABC
A little more information would be that those ABC scripts all set some variable equal to the tag, ie
TEST_NAME="@tag3@"
ANOT_VAR="@tag4@"
That way, when I run the script I can replace all the @...@ tags with what I need, and then the bottom of the script calls everything by the constant variable names.
I was thinking either the script has a header that I could vi it and change it b/c this script will be used over and over with different values for the tags each time. So, either a header section, or even an interactive script where it asks for the values, stores them, then uses those to run the replace command in each script.
Output is obviously the updated ABC script. It doesn't even need to create the new files, all it has to do is modify the existing script, b/c I have my directory which holds these scripts, and then when I use them I always have to move them somewhere else, and then run the replace script from the new directory.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys,
Suppose you have 100 files in a folder and you want to replace all occurances of a word say "ABCD" in those files with "DCBA", how would you do
it ???
jatin (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: jatins_s
13 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
How do I parse/split lines (strings) read from a file and display the individual tokens in a shell script? Given that the length of individual lines is not constant and number of tokens in each line is also not constant.
The input file could be as below:
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: yajaykumar
3 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I used the following script
cd pathname
for y in `ls *`;
do sed "s/ABCD/DCBA/g" $y > temp; mv temp $y;
done
and it worked fine for finding and replacing strings with names etc. in all files of the given path.
I'm trying to replace a string which consists of path (location of file)
... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: pharos467
11 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a rather complicated search and replace I need to do among several dozen files and over a hundred occurrences. My site is written in PHP and throughout the old code, you will find things like
die("Operation Aborted due to.....");
For my new design skins for the site, I need to get... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: UCCCC
2 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have app log files that need to be cleansed for readability, and my sed skills are not adequate.
Each line has a long multi-segment header, which I am trying to remove, example below:
: 2010.05.26 20:38:00.640--DatabaseSessionImpl(21447570)--Connection(26209441)--Thread(Thread)--SELECT... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: migurus
4 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Im writing a shell script in which I want to get the folder names in one folder to be used in for loop.
I have used:
packsName=$(cd ~/packs/Acquisitions; ls -l| awk '{print $9}')
echo $packsName
o/p: opt temp user1 user2
ie. Im getting the output as a string.
But I want... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: AB10
3 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys. I know pratically 0 about Linux, so could anyone please give me instructions on how to accomplish this ?
The distro is RedHat 4.1.2 and i need to find and replace a multiple lines string in several php files across subdirectories.
So lets say im at root/dir1/dir2/ , when i execute... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: spfc_dmt
12 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
This is my first post. Please bear with me with all my mistakes. I started learning shell since couple of days now and this might be quite basic for all, i want to search for files in a directory containing specific string and replace it with new string. The code i wrote is quite bulky... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: theprogrammer
2 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
can someone help me to resolve the error
for this condition
if ] && ]; then
i am passing the values $k and $kkm
i am getting the error like "-: more tokens expected"
Thanks in Advance (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: makigate
5 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Good Evening Folks -
Happy Friday!
I have a need to replace a certain string in all .csv files from "0.00" to "#Missing" in my /app/hyp_app/files directory.
Does anyone have a script they use regularly that's rather quick in performance? My files are rather large so I'm looking for a... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: SIMMS7400
5 Replies
SCRIPT(1) BSD General Commands Manual SCRIPT(1)
NAME
script -- make typescript of terminal session
SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [-c COMMAND] [-f] [-q] [-t] [file]
DESCRIPTION
Script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an interactive
session as proof of an assignment, as the typescript file can be printed out later with lpr(1).
If the argument file is given, script saves all dialogue in file. If no file name is given, the typescript is saved in the file typescript.
Options:
-a Append the output to file or typescript, retaining the prior contents.
-c COMMAND
Run the COMMAND rather than an interactive shell. This makes it easy for a script to capture the output of a program that behaves
differently when its stdout is not a tty.
-f Flush output after each write. This is nice for telecooperation: One person does `mkfifo foo; script -f foo' and another can super-
vise real-time what is being done using `cat foo'.
-q Be quiet.
-t Output timing data to standard error. This data contains two fields, separated by a space. The first field indicates how much time
elapsed since the previous output. The second field indicates how many characters were output this time. This information can be used
to replay typescripts with realistic typing and output delays.
The script ends when the forked shell exits (a control-D to exit the Bourne shell (sh(1)), and exit, logout or control-d (if ignoreeof is not
set) for the C-shell, csh(1)).
Certain interactive commands, such as vi(1), create garbage in the typescript file. Script works best with commands that do not manipulate
the screen, the results are meant to emulate a hardcopy terminal.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is utilized by script:
SHELL If the variable SHELL exists, the shell forked by script will be that shell. If SHELL is not set, the Bourne shell is assumed. (Most
shells set this variable automatically).
SEE ALSO
csh(1) (for the history mechanism), scriptreplay(1).
HISTORY
The script command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BUGS
Script places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces. This is not what the naive user expects.
AVAILABILITY
The script command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
Linux July 30, 2000 Linux