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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed unterminated `s' command? Post 302418577 by alister on Tuesday 4th of May 2010 08:38:40 PM
Old 05-04-2010
Hello, donnacha, and welcome to the forums.

For starters, your variable names don't match up (from1 vs from, to1 vs to), although I don't think that's the source of the problem (perhaps that's just a typo in the post). I suspect that the problem is that the values of the from1 and to1 variables will contain multiple lines if there are multiple files that match the *eml pattern. The embedded newlines are almost certainly what is causing the problem with the sed command.

Perhaps something akin to the following will suit your needs:
Code:
for f in *eml; do
    sed -i "s/SMS/SMS $(head -n1 "$f") to $(sed -n '2p' "$f")/g" "$f"
done

Regards,
Alister
 

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grfdiff

GRFDiff(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						GRFDiff(1)

NAME

     GRFDiff -- A tool to create a binary GRF diff from to GRFs.

SYNOPSIS

     grfdiff [-hnxyv] [-l numbers] [-o GRF-File] Original-GRF-file New-GRF-file

	     Compare the two GRF files and produce a GRD file containing only the sprites from the second file that are different from the first
	     file.

	     GRFDiff makes a .GRD file with the same basename as the new GRF file.

OPTIONS

     -h 	 Display the help message.

     -l numbers  Save the sprites with these numbers in the .GRD instead of finding the modified sprites.  With this option, the first GRF file
		 can be omitted.

		 Format of the numbers: <from1>[-<to1>][,<from2>[-<to2>]]...  e.g.  1-5,8,20-31 (must be increasing numbers).

     -n 	 Only show a list of modified sprites, don't make a .GRF file.

     -x 	 Make a self-extracting (.EXE) file instead of a .GRD.

     -y 	 Answer 'y' to all questions.

     -v 	 Display the version.

     You can specify several sets of GRF files along with their -l options by separating them with a double-dash `--'.	The result will be written
     to a single .GRD file.  Only -l is valid after the first set.

SEE ALSO

     The documentation in /usr/share/doc/grfcodec/

AUTHOR

     GRFDiff was written by Josef Drexler.

     This manual page was written by Remko Bijker.

COPYRIGHT

     GRFDiff is Copyright (C) 2003 by Josef Drexler <jdrexler@uwo.ca>

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