06-15-2012
Thanks Balajesuri. It was very kind of you.
I had to tweak your code a bit to make it work.
I was getting invalid option "i" if I used sed -i. So this is what worked for me-
while read a b
do
sed "s|$a|$b|g" /tmp/ccf_temp.sql > /tmp/tmp.sql && mv /tmp/tmp.sql /tmp/ccf_temp.sql
done < /tmp/tt
Last edited by pandeyra; 06-15-2012 at 09:12 AM..
Reason: work wrongly spelt
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