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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed problem in a for cycle Post 302395570 by maxlamax on Tuesday 16th of February 2010 11:48:25 AM
Old 02-16-2010
sed problem in a for cycle

Hi, i have a problem with a sed command runned in a for cycle...

I have a file named fileX which contains (i have crippled the line to minimal for easy):

Code:
 
load data dbfoo - TOCHANGE - comment
load data dbboo - TOCHANGE - comment
load data dbzoo - TOCHANGE - comment
...

And a file named fileY which contains:

Code:
 
value1
value2
value3
...

I don't understand why sed change every occurrence of TOCHANGE in fileX, i have read that sed change the first occurrence and then proceed if switch "g" is omitted...
The portion of the code where i surely have made an error is:

Code:
 
for TC in `cat fileY`
do
 sed s/"TOCHANGE"/"$TC" fileX > results
done

I've thinked that the file results will be like:

Code:
 
load data dbfoo - value1 - comment
load data dbboo - value2 - comment
load data dbzoo - value3 - comment
...

Because the echo on variable TC show me the values in order...
But instead i have this:

Code:
 
load data dbfoo - valueX - comment
load data dbboo - valueX - comment
load data dbzoo - valueX - comment
...

Someone may help this beginner of me?

Thx a lot
 

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SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)					      GNU Portable Shell Tool					       SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)

NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext] [-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files. OPTIONS
The following command line options are available. -v, --verbose Display some processing information. -t, --trace Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed. -n, --nop No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed. -w, --warning Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution operations resulted in no content change on all files. -q, --quiet Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change. -s, --stealth Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file. -i, --interactive Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation. -b, --backup ext Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file. -e, --exec cmd Specify sed(1) command directly. -f, --file cmd-file Read sed(1) command from file. EXAMPLE
# shell script shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch] # RPM spec-file %install shtool subst -v -n -e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g' -e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g' `find . -name Makefile -print` make install HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications. SEE ALSO
shtool(1), sed(1). 18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)
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