11-09-2009
Hey Fellas.
I am new to scripting. After searching the forums, this is about the closest to what i'm looking for. I am trying to find a particular sting in a file and replace the next line, roughly about 1500 times in the file. I have been trying to do this with sed, but i haven't had the best of luck. The string that i need to replace with is in another file in csv format. example:
first found instance in file1 is replaced with line 1 in csv file
second found instance in file1 is replaced with line 2 in csv file and so on.
When i say i'm brand new to scripting i mean BRAND new. I'm taking some classes, but i need to get this done as soon as possible and what i have learned so far hasn't gotten me much closer. any help ya'll can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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replace
REPLACE(1) General Commands Manual REPLACE(1)
NAME
replace - A utility program that is used by msql2mysql, but that has more general applicability as well. replace changes strings in place
in files or on the standard input. Uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. Can be used to swap strings.
USAGE
replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... -- [files]
or
replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... < fromfile > tofile
SYNOPSIS
replace [-?|-I] [-s] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
replace
-?|-I info
-s silent
-v verbose
EXTRA INFO
Special characters in from string:
^ Match start of line.
$ Match end of line.
Match space-character, start of line or end of line. For a end the next replace starts locking at the end space-character. A
alone in a string matches only a space-character.
EXAMPLE
this command swaps a and b in the given files:
shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...
SEE ALSO
isamchk (1), isamlog (1), mysqlaccess (1), mysqladmin (1), mysqlbug (1), mysqld (1), mysqldump (1), mysqlshow (1), msql2mysql (1), perror
(1), replace (1), safe_mysqld (1), which1 (1), zap (1),
AUTHOR
Ver 1.0, distribution 3.23.29a Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@tcx.se), TCX Datakonsult AB (http://www.tcx.se). This software comes with
no warranty. Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mer-
curmedia.com)
20 December 2000 REPLACE(1)