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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to find & replace a multiple lines string across multiple php files and subdirectories Post 302605172 by agama on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 08:20:15 PM
Old 03-06-2012
Sorry for the confusion, yes I only pasted the awk portion figuring you could insert that into your script body.

Very strange. I took this to a different machine (FreeBSD) just to see if a different flavour of awk might barf and its only compplaint was to escape the question mark in the following line (new character in red):

Code:
/\?>/ {                  # end of a block

The Gnu awk on my Linux host wasn't complaining about that. What version of awk do you have installed?
Code:
awk --version

should give that to you. I've been testing this with GNU Awk 3.1.6.

To test a bit further....
I've cut/pasted the test file I'm using and it doesn't have any issues. I took the awk straight from your post just to be sure and used the dummy "UNIQUE STRING" as well. The result, when I execute it, is the middle section is dropped.

Code:
 <?php
   = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id = '".['article']."'";
  ->doQuery();
   = ->getRows();
  if(isset(['add'])) {
    if(trim(['nick']) != '') {
       = trim(['nick']);
    } else {
      ['nick'] = 'Please enter your nickname.';
    }
    if(trim(['comment']) != '') {
       = trim(['comment']);
    } else {
      ['comment'] = 'Please enter a comment.';
    }
    if(empty()) {
       = "INSERT INTO comments (website, article_id, nickname, message, email) VALUES ('".['website']."','".['article']."','".."','".."','".."')";
      ->doQuery();
      header('Location: '.['HTTP_REFERER']);
    }
  }
  ?>
<?php get_header(); ?><?php
   = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id = '".['article']."'";
  ->doQuery();
   = ->getRows();
  if(isset(['add'])) {
    if(trim(['nick']) != '') {
       = trim(['nick']);
    } else {
      ['nick'] = 'Please enter your nickname.';
    }
    if(trim(['comment']) != '') {
       = trim(['comment']);
    } else {  //"UNIQUE CODE"
      ['comment'] = 'Please enter a comment.';
    }
    if(empty()) {
       = "INSERT INTO comments (website, article_id, nickname, message, email) VALUES ('".['website']."','".['article']."','".."','".."','".."')";
      ->doQuery();
      header('Location: '.['HTTP_REFERER']);
    }
  }
  ?>
  <?php
   = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id = '".['article']."'";
  ->doQuery();
   = ->getRows();
  if(isset(['add'])) {
    if(trim(['nick']) != '') {
       = trim(['nick']);
    } else {
      ['nick'] = 'Please enter their nickname.';
    }
    if(trim(['comment']) != '') {
       = trim(['comment']);
    } else {
      ['comment'] = 'Please enter a comment.';
    }
    if(empty()) {
       = "INSERT INTO comments (website, article_id, nickname, message, email) VALUES ('".['website']."','".['article']."','".."','".."','".."')";
      ->doQuery();
      header('Location: '.['HTTP_REFERER']);
    }
  }
  ?>



What happens if you save just the awk in a file (lets say test_awk), the data in test_data and try this:

Code:
ksh test_awk <test_data

 

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