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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed error Post 302545278 by aspire on Monday 8th of August 2011 12:19:52 AM
Old 08-08-2011
sed error

Please, i need a little help Smilie

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for file in *myfile*; do
read name
echo "$name" #ok!
lynx -dump "$file"  >> lynxdump.txt #ok!
cat  lynxdump.txt | sed '/'$name'/!d'
done < namelist.txt  #<--error

namelist.txt
Code:
Name Surname
Name1 Surname1
Name1 Surname1
...

error:
Code:
sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unterminated address regex
Name Surname
sed: -e expression #1, char 5: unterminated address regex
Name1 Surname1
sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unterminated address regex
Name1 Surname1
sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unterminated address regex
...

uhm... why? Smilie
 

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gnomevfs-cat(1) 						   User Commands						   gnomevfs-cat(1)

NAME
gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-cat URI DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-cat is obsolete. It has been superseded by gvfs-cat. See gvfs-cat(1). gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com Example 2: Cat a Local File example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Obsolete Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1), gvfs-cat(1), attributes(5), environ(5) NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.11 14 May 2008 gnomevfs-cat(1)
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