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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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