'for LINE in $(cat file)' breaking at spaces, not just newlines
Hello. I'm making a (hopefully) simple shell script xml parser that outputs a file I can grep for information. I am writing it because I have yet to find a command line utility that can do this. If you know of one, please just stop now and tell me about it. Even better would be one I can input the XML file and path to the data (below example would be "foo/bar/c") and get the value. I know this can easily be done in python, but I have no experience in that and I want to make it part of a bigger program.
My goal, if writing the full parser, is to have the input file, for example,
output something like
The way I thought about doing this was
followed by how to parse it if it's an open tag <tag> and an if statement for ending tags </tag>.
NOW HERE'S THE PROBLEM:
"cat file.xml" works perfectly in terminal, but when using it in a for loop, assigning it to an array, or anything else, it breaks at spaces and newlines, not just newlines thus if I echoed $LINE in the for loop, the output would be
which works fine for numeric values, but some some of my values are strings with spaces in their data which breaks the code since the value is split in half.
How can I get $LINE to be the full line, not just what's between two spaces? Or what command line utility could extract a piece of information from an XML file?
I am writing a script that is running a loop on one file to obtain records from another file.
Using egrep, I am finding matching records in file b, then outputing feilds of both into another file.
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filea=this.txt
fileb=that.txt
cat $filea | while read line
do... (1 Reply)
for file in `ls *.txt`
do
sed '/s/old/new/g' $file > /tmp/tempfile.tmp
mv /tmp/tempfile.tmp $file
done
the txt files names look like "text file one.txt", "text file two.txt"
but when I run it, all i get is:
sed: 0602-419 Cannot find or open file text.
sed: 0602-419 Cannot find or... (3 Replies)
Hello,
So I sorted my file as I was supposed to:
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2
and when I wrote
> cat file2
in the command line, I got what I was expecting, but in the script itself
...
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 averages | uniq > temp
cat file2
It wrote a whole... (21 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem where I need to append few spaces(say 10 spaces) for each line in a file whose length is say(100 chars) and others leave as it is.
I tried to find the length of each line and then if the length is say 100 chars then tried to write those lines into another file and use a sed... (17 Replies)
Hi,
I have two files
one.txt
laptop
boy
apple
two.txt
unix
linux
OS
openS
I want to split one.txt into one line each and concatenate it with the two.txt
output files
onea.txt
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Hi all,
i am getting count from oracle 11g by spooling it to a file.
Now there are some newline characters and blank spaces i need to remove these.
pl provide me a awk/sed solution.
the spooled file is attached.
i tried this.. but not getting req o/p (6 Replies)
hi Guys,
Am new to this awesome forum, and yea i need some help here asap thnx :)
i have a directory with over 34000 text files, i need a script that will delete the last line of each of this file without me necessary opening the files.
illustration:-
file1 200 records
file2 130 records... (5 Replies)
when I try to read a file and send email using cat and sendmail: The email received having additional spaces.(Between the letters of words in the text)
My code:
export MAILTO="sa@y.com"
export SUBJECT="mydomain PREPROD MONITOR AT ${DATE}"
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Here is the text that I was to run sed on. In this text I want to insert a semi colon ';' before 'select a13.STORE_TYPE STORE_TYPE,' and after 'from ZZMR00 pa11'
Input text:
insert into ZZMQ01
select pa11.STATE_NBR STATE_NBR,
pa11.STORE_TYPE STORE_TYPE,
... (9 Replies)