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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers pls help, file name with brackets Post 302599579 by sunnydanniel on Friday 17th of February 2012 02:22:18 PM
Old 02-17-2012
thanks for your reply!

however, problem remains.
it returns error messages like: unterminated substitute in regular expression.

what i'm trying to do is update link path in these files containing the file names

Code:
while read F
do
        #to extract the line containing the path by key word CDPFCIS
        OLD_PATH=`egrep CDPFCIS $F`
        #to extract the new path by file name
        NEW_PATH=`egrep $F new_path_list.txt`
        sed -i 's@OLD_PATH@NEW_PATH@g' $F
done < namelist.txt

I guess the problem is in the egrep function, cuz the system won't allow code like this
Code:
egrep R1_970804_125404(2) namelist.txt

is there a way to solve this problem? thank you so much!
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal". --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do right to left (RTL) layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4. Postscript points Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --gutter-width=gw Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)
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