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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do i use sed to replace string with values from a dictionary file Post 302341788 by yoyolandre on Thursday 6th of August 2009 03:00:18 PM
Old 08-06-2009
How do i use sed to replace string with values from a dictionary file

I have file 1 with one million rows. one of the fields is
"FIRSTNAME" (the string)
I have a second file with about 20 first names.

JUDE
DAVID
HOMER
CANE
ABEL
MARTY
CARL
SONNY
STEVE
BERT
OSCAR
MICKY
JAMES
JOHN
GLENN
DOUG
ERNIE
CECIL
KENNY
KEVIN
LARRY
MING
ROCKY
RONNY
GREGG

I want to either recursively, or randomly (it really doesn't matter)
replace "FIRSTNAME" with a value from the second file .

I know how to replace and space fill FIRSTNAME with MING, for example,
but then my whole document is full of MING.

I looked and couldn't find an answer to my conundrum... I have many
more operations to perform, but they are all of the same kind.

Thanks for your input.

Lionel
 

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REPLACE(1)						       MySQL Database System							REPLACE(1)

NAME
replace - a string-replacement utility SYNOPSIS
replace arguments DESCRIPTION
The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the standard input. Invoke replace in one of the following ways: shell> replace from to [from to] ... -- file_name [file_name] ... shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file_name from represents a string to look for and to represents its replacement. There can be one or more pairs of strings. Use the -- option to indicate where the string-replacement list ends and the file names begin. In this case, any file named on the command line is modified in place, so you may want to make a copy of the original before converting it. replace prints a message indicating which of the input files it actually modifies. If the -- option is not given, replace reads the standard input and writes to the standard output. replace uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. It can be used to swap strings. For example, the following command swaps a and b in the given files, file1 and file2: shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ... The replace program is used by msql2mysql. See msql2mysql(1). replace supports the following options. o -?, -I Display a help message and exit. o -#debug_options Enable debugging. o -s Silent mode. Print less information what the program does. o -v Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does. o -V Display version information and exit. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. AUTHOR
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/). MySQL 5.5 01/30/2014 REPLACE(1)
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