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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Complete Newbie requiring help Post 302356669 by TonyFullerMalv on Saturday 26th of September 2009 05:28:26 PM
Old 09-26-2009
If each section ended with something predictable (e.g. the Solaris section ends with EndSolaris) then you could use:
Code:
awk '/Solaris/,/EndSolaris/' inputfile > solarisoutputfile1

To extract the Solaris section.

Once the Solaris section is in its own file you could then use:
Code:
sed 's/rubbish/good/' solarisoutputfile1 > solarisoutputfile2

To replace "rubbish" with "good".

If the "rubbish" you want to replace is always at the beginning of the line and there are mentions of "rubbish" that are not at the beginning of the line you do not want to replace you could use:
Code:
sed 's/^rubbish/good/' solarisoutputfile1 > solarisoutputfile2

Where the "^" (caret) denotes start of line.

If on the other hand you do want to replace absolutely all mentions of "rubbish" with "good" then you would use:
Code:
sed 's/rubbish/good/g' solarisoutputfile1 > solarisoutputfile2

Where the g denotes global replace, without the g only the first mention of "rubbish" in each line would get replaced.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

publican::createbook

Publican::CreateBook(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Publican::CreateBook(3pm)

NAME

       Publican::CreateBook - A module for generating documentation boilerplate

VERSION

       This document describes Publican::CreateBook version $VERSION

SYNOPSIS

	   use Publican::CreateBook;

	   my $creator = Publican::CreateBook->new({name => 'foo'});
	   $creator->create();

DESCRIPTION

	   Creates a new Book, Article or Set for use with the publican package

INTERFACE

   new
       Create a Publican object set.

       Parameters:

	  docname	    Book Name	     (Required)
	  version	    Product Version  (default: 0.1)
	  edition	    Edition	     (default: 0)
	  product	    Product Name     (default: Documentation)
	  brand 	    Brand	     (default: common)
	  xml_lang	    Source Language  (default: en-US)
	  type		    Book|Set|Article (default: Book)

   create
       Try embedding templates in perl to avoid licensing rubbish

DIAGNOSTICS

       "unknown args %s"
	   All subs with named parameters will return this error when unexpected named arguments are provided.

       "%s is a required argument"
	   Any sub with a mandatory parameter will return this error if the parameter is undef.

       "directory %s exists"
	   When creating a book a directory is created named publican-<book_name>. If a directory with that name is in the current directory the
	   creation will fail.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

       Publican::CreateBook requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

       Carp Config::Simple XML::TreeBuilder File::Path DateTime Term::ANSIColor Publican

INCOMPATIBILITIES

       None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       No bugs have been reported.

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "publican-list@redhat.com", or through the web interface at
       <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Publican&amp;component=publican>.

AUTHOR

       Jeff Fearn  "<jfearn@redhat.com>"

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-18						 Publican::CreateBook(3pm)
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