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Complete Newbie requiring help
Post 302356493 by snoops on Friday 25th of September 2009 05:29:43 PM
09-25-2009
Complete Newbie requiring help
Greetings
Just joined this forum and a complete newbie. So please be gentle
I've never really scripted before nor had a project where I required to write some code. However I have a large project which I am currently doing by manually. I was wondering if someone could help me determine what scripting language to use and possibly help with assisting me with what needs to be done.
I have a file with entries in the following format
[some text.......RedHat]
rubbish text
more text
more text
[some text.......SUSE]
rubbish text
more text
more text
[some text.......Solaris]
What I would like to create is a script that takes arguments (in this case RedHat,SUSE and Solaris] and then searches a file. When it reaches the first argument it copies the entire section starting from [ and ending when it gets to the next [.
With each section, it replaces 'rubbish' with 'good' and it saves it to a file in the format <argument>.txt
Thank you for any help offered or advice offered.
Snoops
Just joined this forum and a complete newbie. So please be gentle
I've never really scripted before nor had a project where I required to write some code. However I have a large project which I am currently doing by manually. I was wondering if someone could help me determine what scripting language to use and possibly help with assisting me with what needs to be done.
I have a file with entries in the following format
[some text.......RedHat]
rubbish text
more text
more text
[some text.......SUSE]
rubbish text
more text
more text
[some text.......Solaris]
What I would like to create is a script that takes arguments (in this case RedHat,SUSE and Solaris] and then searches a file. When it reaches the first argument it copies the entire section starting from [ and ending when it gets to the next [.
With each section, it replaces 'rubbish' with 'good' and it saves it to a file in the format <argument>.txt
Thank you for any help offered or advice offered.
Snoops
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