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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use a dynamic filename with sed? Post 302379145 by ericonanson on Wednesday 9th of December 2009 04:16:47 PM
Old 12-09-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver What is currently working
Thanks for your suggestion, what I am looking for now is to loop through the list.

I have just modified the code to:
Code:
cat $filename2 | sed '/Email/d;/Web/d' > temp.1

Code:
mv temp.1 $filename2

This works for one file.

I was looking for a way to handle errors (what if it runs and has no files?)
and what if more than one files comes in?

As mentioned, I can create a file that has the list.

---------- Post updated at 04:16 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:08 PM ----------

Hi,

I tried the FILE code with multiple files

the message I got back was;
/bin/fix2.sh[3]: FILE: not found and it keep the editor open needed to ctrl 'c' to get prompt back.

Is the code you suggested exactly what I should type? or is FILE something I needed to change?

I am very new to this scripting.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

ppmtosixel

ppmtosixel(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.  The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
              pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands.  A raw file is often an order  of  magni-
              tude larger than a compressed file and prints much slower.

       -margin
              If  -margin  is not specified, the image will be start at the left margin (of the window, paper, or whatever).  If -margin is speci-
              fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image.

PRINTING

       Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered.  Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.

BUGS

       Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion.  If the original PPM maxval was
       greater  than  100,  rescaling  also reduces the image depth.  While the actual RGB values from the ppm file are more or less retained, the
       color palette of the LJ250 may not match the colors on your screen.  This seems to be a printer limitation.

SEE ALSO

       ppm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1991 by Rick Vinci.

                                                                   26 April 1991                                                     ppmtosixel(1)
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