I tried running your code and realized that it prints out the output, rather than saving the file. How come when I do a command, it doesn't create an output file?

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nevermind.... made a dumb mistake. vgersh99 thanks for the help!

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sorry for bringing back what I thought was a "dead thread"

I realized that some of the xml files has the following lines:

Code:

<xControl xId="" xType="Label" xRow="1" xColumn="3"  xCssStyle="margin-left:20px;margin-right:3px;">

Therefore, both margin-left and margin-right would need to be changed. What I did was create the following bash file:

Code:

nawk -f jl1.awk myFile.xml > myFile.tmp
mv myFile.tmp myFile.xml

nawk -f jl2.awk myFile.xml > myFile.tmp
mv myFile.tmp myFile.xml

where jl1.awk is the following:

Code:

match($0,"margin-right:[^;][^;]*") {
    str=substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH)
    gsub("[^0-9]","",str)
    str-=(str/4)
    $0=substr($0,1,RSTART-1) "margin-right:" str "px;\">"
substr($0,RSTART+RLENGTH+1)
}
1

and jl2.awk is:

Code:

match($0,"margin-left:[^;][^;]*") {
    str=substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH)
    gsub("[^0-9]","",str)
    str-=(str/4)
    $0=substr($0,1,RSTART-1) "margin-left:" str "px;"
substr($0,RSTART+RLENGTH+1)
}
1

jl1.awk seems to work fine, but when I run jl2.awk, the margin-right information is deleted. Why is this?