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Old 06-15-2011
search and replace exact string

Hello Everyone,

Im trying to run a search and replace of exact strings and the strings that im using variables that are passed through an array in a while loop. Here is a snip of my code:
Code:
USEROLD=`cat oldusers`
USERNEW=`cat newusers`
USEROLDARRAY=( $USEROLD )
USERNEWARRAY=( $USERNEW )
arraylength=`cat oldusers | wc -l`
i=0;
while [ "$i" -lt "$arraylength" ]
do
        fromold=${USEROLDARRAY["$i"]};
        fromnew=${USERNEWARRAY["$i"]};
        echo "Replacing $fromold with $fromnew"
        cat groups.almost | sed s/$fromold/$fromnew/g >> tmpfile
        mv tmpfile groups.almost
 
let "i = $i +1"
done
mv groups.almost groups.final

in the oldusers file there is a list of users which some of them have their name in part or other users names so doing a replacment of say the user "lin" with "xlin" has resulted in replacing a user that had the word "lin" in their user name like "maklin" and maklin ends up being "makdlin". I also tried adding \b around my $fromold variable but no such luck. Anyone have an idea? Smilie
 

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NAME
asadmin-list-file-groups, list-file-groups - lists the file groups SYNOPSIS
list-file-groups --user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true] [--authrealmname auth_realm_name] [--name username] Lists the available groups in the file user. If the name option is not specified, then all groups are listed. This command is supported in remote mode only. OPTIONS
--user authorized domain application server administrative username. --password password to administer the domain application server. --host machine name where the domain application server is running. --port port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests. --secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server. --passwordfile file containing the domain application server password. --terse indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well- formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false. --echo setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false. --interactive if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted. --authrealmname filename where you have different stores for file auth realm. --name name of the file user. Example 1: Using the list-file-groups command asadmin> list-file-groups --user admin1 --password adminadmin1 --host pigeon --port 5001 --name sample_user Command list-file-groups executed successfully EXIT STATUS
0 command executed successfully 1 error in executing the command asadmin-delete-file-user(1AS), asadmin-update-file-user(1AS), asadmin-create-file-user(1AS), asadmin-list-file-users(1AS) J2EE 1.4 SDK March 2004 asadmin-list-file-groups(1AS)
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