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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to replace text in a file with text entered Post 302306157 by cleanden on Saturday 11th of April 2009 09:18:41 AM
Old 04-11-2009
Wow, thank you both for such fast responses.

That is a great help, but my only remaining problem is that I don't know what will come after Variable1:, Variable2:, etc
They may have already run this previously so now rather than:
Variable1:Value1
Variable2:Value2

it could read:
Variable1:NewValue
Variable1:SomeOtherValue

How could I search for a known beginning and replace the whole line with that same beginning followed by a new value?

Thanks again,
Alex
 

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NAME
swfextract - a tool for extracting data out of swf files. Synopsis swfextract [options] [file.swf] DESCRIPTION
swfextracts allows one to extract swf movieclips and objects out of swf files. SWF files are animation files which can be displayed in Web Browsers using the Flash Plugin. OPTIONS
-h, --help Print short help message and exit -o, --output filename Write output to file filename -V, --version Print version info and exit -i, --id ids ids is a range of IDs to extract. E.g. 1-10,14 -j, --jpegs ids ids is a range of JPEG IDs to extract. E.g. 1-2,3,14- -p, --pngs ids ids is a range of PNG IDs to extract. E.g. -10,20-30 -f, --frame frames frames is a range of frames to extract. E.g. 1-10,20-30,40- -n, --name name Set the name of the object to extract to name. -w, --hollow Copy empty frames to the output file, too. -P, --placeobject Copy original placeobject tag for the given object into the output file (Use with -i). This means that the object is at the same position in the generated movie as in the original movie. -j, --jpegs range Extract jpeg pictures in range -p, --pngs range Extract png pictures in range -m, --mp3 Extract main mp3 stream (There may be substreams in the Movieclips, as well. To extract these, first extract the Movieclips with -i and then use -m) AUTHOR
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