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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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ttx2xgf

TTX2XGF(1)						      General Commands Manual							TTX2XGF(1)

NAME

       ttx2xgf - extracts instructions from a TTX file and creates an Xgridfit program.

SYNOPSIS

       ttx2xgf [options] infile[.ttx] [outfile]

DESCRIPTION

       ttx2xgf	is a utility that extracts instructions (hints) and other information relating to instructions from a TTX file (an XML representa-
       tion of a TrueType font) and creates a new Xgridfit program.

       If infile lacks the .ttx extension, it is assumed. If outfile is not given, output is written to infile.xgf.

OPTIONS

       --config
	      Path to a configuration file (relative paths are permitted).  If this is not given, ttx2xgf will look first for a file config.xml in
	      the current directory, next in the user's Xgridfit configuration directory, and finally in the Xgridfit base directory.

       -e     Display diagnostic messages (for debugging).

       -E, --elapsed-time
	      Time the running of this program and display the result.

       --processor=libxslt|lxml|xsltproc|saxon-6|saxon-9|xalan-j|xalan-c|4xslt
	      Select a preferred XSLT processsor; ttx2xgf will use this one if possible.

FILES

       /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/convert-ttx.xsl
	      An XSLT script that performs the initial conversion.

       /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/convert-asm.sed
	      A Sed script that completes the conversion.

SEE ALSO

       xgridfit(1), xgfconfig(1), ttx(1)

AUTHOR

       ttx2xgf was written by Peter Baker <psb6m@virginia.edu>.

       This manual page was written by Peter Baker

								    2009-12-18								TTX2XGF(1)

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