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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple script editing text files and running commands Post 302447869 by guitarscn on Tuesday 24th of August 2010 01:57:55 PM
Old 08-24-2010
Okay, I decided to make it a bit simpler, and with bash scripting it seems shorter. I have this so far:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
killall process1
#editing configs
process1 &
sleep 5
process2

The #editing configs part is the only part left. So this is what I need to get this script to do now:

The large file is in this format:
Code:
apple
banana
candy
...
[several hundred lines of this]
yoyo
zebra

1st config file:
Code:
option WORD1
otheroption blaha
moreoption blahb

2nd config:
Code:
name = { john }
colors = { red,blue }
options = { opt1 = WORD1; opt2 = WORD1; opt3 = WORD1; }

I need the instances where it says 'WORD1' in both config files to be edited and replaced with the line I choose from the large file list. So say I want the word 'candy' to be placed where 'WORD1' is, I would run the script with the number '3' because 'candy' is the 3rd word in the list. But if I run the script again though (in a new terminal window), I have to make sure that 'candy' is replaced by the next word/line I choose because I can't have it hanging around from my previous use of the script.
 

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makesh

MAKESH(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MAKESH(1)

NAME

       makeSH - a .SH script maker

SYNOPSIS

       makeSH files

DESCRIPTION

       MakeSH  examines  one or more scripts and produces a .SH file that, when run under sh, will produce the original script.  The .SH script so
       produced has two sections containing code destined for the output.  The first section has variable substitutions performed  on  it  (taking
       values  from  config.sh), while the second section does not.  MakeSH does not know which variables you want to have substituted, so it puts
       the whole script into the second section.  It's up to you to insert any variable substitutions in the first section for any values you want
       from config.sh.

       You  should  run  makeSH from within your top-level directory and use the relative path to the file as an argument, so that the "Extracting
       ..." line printed while running the produced .SH file later on will give that same path.

AUTHOR

       Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com>

SEE ALSO

       pat(1), metaconfig(1), makedist(1).

BUGS

       It could assume that variables from metaconfig's Glossary need to be initialized in the first section, but I'm too lazy to make it do that.

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