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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find & replace --> create a new file Post 302660111 by clx on Friday 22nd of June 2012 05:51:23 AM
Old 06-22-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by karthi_mrkg
Hi All,

I have a unix shell script file as below.


My task is

a)to replace 248 to 350 and need to create a new file as BW3_350.sh
b)to replace 248 to 380 and need to create a new file as BW3_380.sh
c)to replace 248 to 320 and need to create a new file as BW3_320.sh

there is no change in the file apart from the above mentioned one. I have to create around 250 files. So i need a to script to do this Smilie


Where the variable $JOBOUTFILE comes from?
 

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