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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing numbers in bash scripts Post 302424542 by bluesmodular on Tuesday 25th of May 2010 02:35:34 PM
Old 05-25-2010
CPU & Memory Replacing numbers in bash scripts
Hi,

I have lines in some files that look exactly as below, and the line numbers they occur in are always the same. (Lines 136-139)

W 0.00000000 0.00000000 2.00000000
W 0.50000000 0.50000000 2.50000000
W 0.00000000 0.00000000 3.00000000
W 0.50000000 0.50000000 3.50000000

I'd like to replace the last number in each row for each file by numbers related to the variable $vacheight, so that the median of these 4 numbers is always half of $vacheight.

The files are all named "run_example", but are in different folders named "examples#" where # is a number from 140 to 199.

As a related example, Line 117 reads:
Code:
  celldm(3)   = 5.000,

Below is the relevant section of code that works for Line 117 and increments the number on Line 117 by 0.1 each time, in a different folder.

Code:
vacheight=`expr 4.500`
for i in */run_example; do
    printf '117s/= [^,]*/= %s/\nwq\n' "$vacheight" | ed -s "$i"
    vacheight=$(echo "scale=3; $vacheight + 0.100" | bc)
done

Thank you very much for your help!
 

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UTF8(5) 						      BSD File Formats Manual							   UTF8(5)

NAME

     utf8 -- UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646

SYNOPSIS

     ENCODING "UTF-8"

DESCRIPTION

     The UTF-8 encoding represents UCS-4 characters as a sequence of octets, using between 1 and 6 for each character.	It is backwards compatible
     with ASCII, so 0x00-0x7f refer to the ASCII character set.  The multibyte encoding of non-ASCII characters consist entirely of bytes whose
     high order bit is set.  The actual encoding is represented by the following table:

     [0x00000000 - 0x0000007f] [00000000.0bbbbbbb] -> 0bbbbbbb
     [0x00000080 - 0x000007ff] [00000bbb.bbbbbbbb] -> 110bbbbb, 10bbbbbb
     [0x00000800 - 0x0000ffff] [bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
	     1110bbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb
     [0x00010000 - 0x001fffff] [00000000.000bbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
	     11110bbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb
     [0x00200000 - 0x03ffffff] [000000bb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
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     [0x04000000 - 0x7fffffff] [0bbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] ->
	     1111110b, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb

     If more than a single representation of a value exists (for example, 0x00; 0xC0 0x80; 0xE0 0x80 0x80) the shortest representation is always
     used.  Longer ones are detected as an error as they pose a potential security risk, and destroy the 1:1 character:octet sequence mapping.

SEE ALSO

     euc(5)

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     F. Yergeau, UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646, January 1998, RFC 2279.

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     Standard Annex #28: Unicode 3.2.

STANDARDS

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