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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to read from specific line number in shell script? Post 302587227 by vel4ever on Wednesday 4th of January 2012 09:23:27 AM
Old 01-04-2012
I am getting below error when executing the below code with sed

Code:
path="local/home"
echo "<parent>" >> test.xml
for i in $(sed -n 2 $path/file.txt)
do
  echo -e "\t<tag>" >> test.xml
  echo -e "\t\t<docs>$i</docs>" >> test.xml
  echo -e "\t</tag>" >> test.xml
done
echo "</parent>" >> test.xml

Code:
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: missing command

 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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