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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using sed with a foreach loop Post 302279786 by Peggy White on Friday 23rd of January 2009 06:21:30 PM
Old 01-23-2009
Using sed with a foreach loop

So I am back again beating my head against the wall with a shell script and getting a headache! I want to change each year in a file (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, etc.) to the same year followed by a tab.

The input is "blah blah (1980) blah blah".

I want to get "blah blah (1980 ) blah blah".

Code:
foreach year (1980 1981 1982)
sed -e 's/$year/$year     )/g' input_file > output_file

only changes the last year. Does sed need something special with foreach?

Thanks much to anyone in advance, Peggy

Last edited by bakunin; 01-23-2009 at 08:04 PM.. Reason: added code-tags. Please use them when posting code
 

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