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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with a shell script to modify one line and copy the next 9 to same file Post 302366599 by panyam on Friday 30th of October 2009 01:24:20 AM
Old 10-30-2009
Provide us with the Input file and the output your expecting, so it would be easy to work on.
 

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imsettings-switch

imsettings-switch(1)													      imsettings-switch(1)

NAME

       imsettings-switch - Switch Input Method

SYNOPSIS

       imsettings-switch [ -hnqrx ] [ --no-update ] [ --quiet ] [ --restart ] [ --read-xinputrc ] [ --help ] [Input Method name | configuration
			 filename]

DESCRIPTION

       imsettings-switch switches Input Method which is managed under imsettings. Either Input Method name or configuration filename are  required
       unless --read-xinputrc option is specified to determine the target from $HOME/.config/imsettings/xinputrc or $xinputrcdir/xinputrc.

OPTIONS

       This  program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
       below.

       -n --no-update
	      Do not update $HOME/imsettings/xinputrc. without this option, imsettings-switch will updates it with the targeted Input Method.

       -q --quiet
	      Do not show any messages except errors.

       -r --restart
	      Restart the given Input Method or one which is determined from xinputrc by --read-xinputrc option.

       -x --read-xinputrc
	      Determine the targeted Input Method from $HOME/imsettings/xinputrc or $xinputrcdir/xinputrc if not available.

       -h --help
	      Show summary of options

       Input Method name
	      Switch Input Method to Input Method name.

       configuration filename
	      Switch Input Method to configuration filename.

SEE ALSO

       imsettings-list(1) imsettings-reload(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>

								   Apr 10, 2013 					      imsettings-switch(1)
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