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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting RE or Sed to manipulate a document Post 302262808 by phpfreak on Saturday 29th of November 2008 02:25:45 AM
Old 11-29-2008
Thanks Ken but I think I oversimplified my example which is why this might not work. Totally not your fault but also, I think you missed that I wanted to throw those characters into a variable and use sed again to append it to my command like so...
Quote:
mycommand > bcfn.htmlbcfn
mycommand > cdcsfn.htmlcdcsfn
mycommand > dechfn.1.htmldechfn
mycommand > efchfsn.htmlefchfsn
mycommand > fpchn.6.htmlfpchn

mycommand bcfn > bcfn.html ;
mycommand cdcsfn > cdcsfn.html ;
mycommand dechfn > dechfn.1.html ;
mycommand efchfsn > efchfsn.html ;
mycommand fpchn > fpchn.6.html ;
Eventually I want to convert it into a script #!/bin/sh and this is why additionally, I wanted to terminate each line (not sure if it's even necessary though). I have two of my own scripts that I made waaaay long ago that'll get the same job done...

Code:
#!/bin/sh
#Search and replace using sed. 
#Output live with cat.
echo "Syntax is as follows:
# file arg1 arg2"
read FILE RPL1 RPL2
cat $FILE | sed s/$RPL1/$RPL2/ ;
#!/bin/sh
#Search and replace using sed. 
#No output
echo "Syntax is as follows: 
# file arg1 arg2"
read FILE RPL1 RPL2
touch tmp.Ps23zp2s.2-Fpps3-wmmm0dss3
cat $FILE | sed s/$RPL1/$RPL2/ > tmp.Ps23zp2s.2-Fpps3-wmmm0dss3 ;
mv tmp.Ps23zp2s.2-Fpps3-wmmm0dss3 $FILE
echo "task completed"
#


-except.. I need to somehow have the characters thrown into a variable somehow to use sed again to append it as part of the command. I think the best way to do this is to have a sed sequence that works to do this then loop it through the file. Heck with that, given that a smaller test batch works, I can throw my command into the loop to get it all done under one script instead of two.

I'm still learning but what I think is relevant for all to know is that the characters after .html will be alphanumeric ([a-zA-Z0-9_] or \w) as I understand.


-----------------------------------------

What the heck.. here is the below so that all may follow what I'm trying to do...


Code:
--cut for brevity
man2web > apmd.8.htmlapmd
man2web > apropos.1.htmlapropos
man2web > apxs.8.htmlapxs
man2web > ar.1.htmlar
man2web > arch.1.htmlarch
man2web > arp.8.htmlarp
man2web > as.1.htmlas
man2web > ascii-xfr.1.htmlascii-xfr
man2web > ascii.7.htmlascii
man2web > asciitopgm.1.htmlasciitopgm
man2web > asctime.3.htmlasctime
man2web > ash.1.htmlash
man2web > asin.3.htmlasin
man2web > asinh.3.htmlasinh
man2web > assert.3.htmlassert
--cut for brevity

Last edited by phpfreak; 11-29-2008 at 04:36 AM..
 

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