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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing variable Text between fixed strings Post 302520448 by pasc on Saturday 7th of May 2011 09:06:31 AM
Old 05-07-2011
Replacing variable Text between fixed strings
Hello all,

This is my first post and I hope you can help me out.
I searched for quite some hours now and haven't found a simple solution to my problem.

It is as following:

I got this file:

dl.dropbox.com/u/14586156/stuff/Bookmarks.plist

and want to replace the Text between "file://localhost/ and /Documents/ with whatever. (Not literaly whatever, just any other text).
( in BASH/SHELL)


Since this is not a normal sorted text file and instead a plist it seems a quite Smilie task to do.

I guess sed and gawk should be able to do this, yet neither of the solution provided anywhere helped me to accomplish this

I really hope anyone could help me with this since it is driving me crazy.


Thanks in advance for helping out a desperate shell scripting newb:

pasc
BTW: if there is a solution: Can these replacements also be limited to the ocurrences (e.g. only replace the first, second or maybe third occurence ?

Also: Is there any plist parsing utility for shell or awk that can write the parsed result to a new file in easily readable format ?
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       MPlist * mfontset_lookup (MFontset * fontset, MSymbol script, MSymbol language, MSymbol charset)

DESCRIPTION

       Lookup a fontset. The mfontset_lookup() function lookups fontset and returns a plist that describes the contents of fontset corresponding
       to the specified script, language, and charset.

       If script is Mt, keys of the returned plist are script name symbols for which some fonts are specified and values are NULL.

       If script is a script name symbol, the returned plist is decided by language.

       o If language is Mt, keys of the plist are language name symbols for which some fonts are specified and values are NULL. A key may be Mt
	 which means some fallback fonts are specified for the script.
       o If language is a language name symbol, the plist is a FONT-GROUP for the specified script and language.  FONT-GROUP is a plist whose keys
	 are FLT (FontLayoutTable) name symbols (Mt if no FLT is associated with the font) and values are pointers to MFont.
       o If language is Mnil, the plist is fallback FONT-GROUP for the script.
       If script is Mnil, the returned plist is decided as below.
       o If charset is Mt, keys of the returned plist are charset name symbols for which some fonts are specified and values are NULL.
       o If charset is a charset name symbol, the plist is a FONT-GROUP for the charset.
       o If charset is Mnil, the plist is a fallback FONT-GROUP.
RETURN VALUE

	   It returns a plist describing the contents of a fontset. The plist should be freed by m17n_object_unref().
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