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07-24-2009

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My problem with sed, and its my inexperience with the command is sed syntax

sed '/abc/123/' <file name>

All the xml tags and inserts have their own / part of the xml syntax.

So I'm thinking something like

Code:

 ed - ${DRF_PATH} << EOF
 ${INSERT_LINE}
 ${INSERT_NODE}
 w
 q
 EOF

But I havent tested it.

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Code:

((COUNT=0))
while (( ${COUNT} < ${#LINE_ARRAY[*]} ))
do
 INSERT_LINE=${LINE_ARRAY[${COUNT}]}
 ((INSERT_LINE=${INSERT_LINE}-1))
 echo "[Insert]  ${INSERT_NODE} at line ${INSERT_LINE}"
 ed - ${DRF_PATH} << EOF
 ${INSERT_LINE}a
 ${INSERT_NODE}
 .
 w
 q
 EOF
 ((COUNT=${COUNT}+1))
done
exit 0

Ok that does what I want, but works manually but not in the script.

$ ed - ../BIL-EXF.DRF.xml << EOF
> 75a
> <QUANTITATIVE NAME="DB-ODSAL" QUANT="1" />
> .
> w
> q
> EOF

Makes the insert I need at the right spot, but when run in the script it failes.

Quote:

$ ./InsertQRinDRF.sh -i ../BIL-EXF.DRF.xml -q DB-ODSAL
./InsertQRinDRF.sh[54]: syntax error at line 59 : `<' unmatched

59: ed - ${DRF_PATH} << EOF

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PACEMAKER(8)						  System Administration Utilities					      PACEMAKER(8)

NAME

       Pacemaker - Part of the Pacemaker cluster resource manager

SYNOPSIS

       crm_verify [modifiers] data_source

DESCRIPTION

       crm_verify - Check a (complete) confiuration for syntax and common conceptual errors.

       Checks the well-formedness of an XML configuration, its conformance to the configured DTD/schema and for the presence of common misconfigu-
       rations.

       It reports two classes of problems, errors and warnings. Errors must be fixed before the cluster will work properly. However, it is left up
       to the administrator to decide if the warnings should also be fixed.

OPTIONS

       -?, --help
	      This text

       -$, --version
	      Version information

       -V, --verbose
	      Increase debug output

   Data sources:
       -L, --live-check
	      Check the configuration used by the running cluster

       -x, --xml-file=value
	      Check the configuration in the named file

       -X, --xml-text=value
	      Check the configuration in the supplied string

       -p, --xml-pipe
	      Check the configuration piped in via stdin

   Additional Options:
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EXAMPLES

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