Is it possible to process multiple variables in a single sed command?
I have the following ksh with three variables and I want to search for all variables which start with "var" inside input.txt.
I tired "$var$" but it just prints out everyting in input.txt and does not work.
$ more test.ksh... (5 Replies)
I need to assign a variable within a variable in a sed command.
I tried doing the following in c shell.
set left = 1
set right = 2
set segment = qwerty
sed -n -e "/$segment{$left}/,/$segment{$right}/p" file.txt
what is wrong with this syntax? (3 Replies)
I am trying to write a simple script which will take a variable with sed to take a line out of a text and display it
#!/bin/sh
exec 3<list
while read list<&3
do
echo $list
sed -n '$list p'<list2
done
this does not work, yet when I replace the $list variable from the sed command and... (1 Reply)
I wish to give line number from one point to another in sed command like this
sed -n 1,1000000p file1.txt >file2.txt
but variable line number $x,$x+100000 can i give it cos i tried and it was giving an error any suggestions?/
Thx in advance
AC (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a doubt.
Can we assign a regular expression for pattern searching to a variable in a script and then use that variable in place of a regular expression in sed command.I tried but got some syntax error!!Is it not possible.Because my requirement is that i have a generic script to get... (8 Replies)
I have got a file job_tree.lst , which contains 1 line as below
$ cat job_tree.lst
ABC_D_EQ_XXXXX_YYYY_PRD_UX 05/08/2009 05:47 05/08/2009 05:50 IN 13412850/0
I want to get a child job string 3 characters offset from the parent job string (i.e. ABC_D_EQ_XXXXX_YYYY_PRD_UX 05/08/2009... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I want to writte a script that replace two character strings by two variables with the command sed butmy solution doesn't work. I'm written this: sed "s/TTFactivevent/$TTFav/g && s/switchSLL/$SLL/g" templatefile.
I want to replace TTFactivevent by the variable $TTFav, that is a... (4 Replies)
hi guys,
The following command doesn't seem to work in my shell script:
tag=$(sed -n '/${line}/ s/.*\.*/\1/p' myfile.txt)
When i replace the ${line} with an actual value, it works fine.
So, how do i use the ${line} in this sed command?
Thanks in advance,
Zaff (2 Replies)
HELLO!!
I'm trying to pass a variable with in the 'sed' command (which would add some piece of code to file at a particular line). We can use
sed '{line-number}a\
alfjaljf\
aslfjsfsjafl\
adlfjaf\' file.txt
If file.txt is
Now, I would like to add the parameter 'lmn' after... (1 Reply)
Here is the whole script, very simple, but I am just learning
ROK_NO=$1
RPT=/tmp/test
sed -E '/^SELECT/ s/(.{23}).{8}/\1'"$ROK_NO"' /' $RPT
echo $RPT
When I run this I get
$ bash rok.sh 2388085
: No such file or directory
/tmp/test
When I type the command in console, it works... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: isey78
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)