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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed on first instance only Post 302288525 by eltinator on Tuesday 17th of February 2009 01:28:30 PM
Old 02-17-2009
Sure, so here would be my text file before. Let's just say I have a file of serial numbers:

E1111111
E2222222
E3333333
0
E5555555
0
E7777777

So the 0 are mess ups in the file and I want to replace each with different serial numbers E4444444 and E6666666 respectively so the output would be:


E1111111
E2222222
E3333333
E4444444
E5555555
E6666666
E7777777

Unfortunately when I use sed it does the whole file so the second 0 gets replaced by E4444444 before I can even try to substitute the E6666666
 

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GENLIB_FLATTEN_PHFIG.3(October 1, 1997) 								   GENLIB_FLATTEN_PHFIG.3(October 1, 1997)

NAME
GENLIB_FLATTEN_PHFIG - flatten an instance in the current layout figure SYNOPSYS
#include <genlib.h> void GENLIB_FLATTEN_PHFIG(insname,concat) char *insname; char concat; ORIGIN
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr PARAMETERS
insname Name of the instance to be flattened concat Indicate whether or not to concatenate instance name to instance' objects name DESCRIPTION
FLATTEN_PHFIG inserts the contents of an instance, but its connectors, in the current figure, and then destroys the instance. The concat parameter may take two values: YES to concatenate object name with instance names. NO to copy object names. In most case, the concat value must be YES, in order to warranty the unicity of names in the figure. It may otherwise fail, because the function would try to add in the current figure some object with an already existing name. EXAMPLE
#include <genlib.h> main() { /* Create a figure to work on */ GENLIB_DEF_PHFIG("mycell"); . . . /* Place an instance */ GENLIB_PLACE("model","instance", SYM_X, 0, 0); /* flatten an instance */ GENLIB_FLATTEN_PHFIG("instance", YES); /* Save all that on disk */ GENLIB_SAVE_PHFIG(); } SEE ALSO
genlib(1), GENLIB_LOINS(3). BUG REPORT
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. PROCEDURAL GENERATION LANGUAGE
ASIM/LIP6 GENLIB_FLATTEN_PHFIG.3(October 1, 1997)
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