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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inserting text into a file but searching for the place to put it! Post 302456527 by KatieV on Friday 24th of September 2010 12:02:32 PM
Old 09-24-2010
Those are fab, thanks but my problem is that each file will have a different set of computers in it so i cant just search for the computer name. the file is sorted by ip address and thats what i need to search with. Any ideas?

I was thinking a while loop that starts from the ip address and takes one off each time and searches for it. If it doesnt find it at all then it inserts the file at the top?
 

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wreplace(1)						      General Commands Manual						       wreplace(1)

NAME
wreplace - Replace an address with the contents of stdin. SYNOPSIS
Goto [-v] [-c] [-b] address OPTIONS
-v If the -v option is present, Goto prints its version number and date and exits. -c If the -c option is present, wreplace creates the window if necessary. -b If the -b option is present, wreplace sets the backup flag on any windows it creates. -d DESCRIPTION
wreplace must be able to connect to a running wily(1). wreplace searches for address and replaces it with the contents of the standard input. address must be a valid wily address. RETURNS
Goto returns zero if it was able to execute the remote goto command, otherwise it returns non-zero. No indication of the success or the failure of the actual search is given. EXAMPLES
Create a manifest file: ls | wreplace -c -b MANIFEST:, SEE ALSO
wily(1) wgoto(1) AUTHOR
Alan Watson (alan@oldp.nmsu.edu) 1R1.1L1 of 1D1 wreplace(1)
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