That's because either the search string or the replacement string has embedded white spaces and since you've allowed the shell to interpret those white-spaces as word-separators (by not double-quoting the variables), it is breaking the sed command.
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Hi all
I have a script as follows :-
#!/usr/bin/ksh
IDT=`date +"%OH%M%S"`
while true
do
echo ${IDT}
sleep 1
done
I need the time to show me the current runtime value for the time, however this returns the time as at the start of the script.
Any ideas.
Thanks
JH (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a program in which i have to substitute a TAG in a file with the value of a variable.
Code Snippet:
----------------
myvar=1234
sed 's/_TAG_/$myvar/' infile outfile
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Can SED be used to substitute a character (y) with a character (Y) in a specified field?
File has 12000 : delimeted rows as;
HHC 1 BDE:Lastname, Firstname MI:firstname.mi.lastname@mil:SGT
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Hi all u brilient people on the forum...
I am trying to call the variable value in awk command for search pattern /start/,/stop/ but i am nt able to do this ....
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fileA
blah blah
OF 90 DAYS DOCS PERIOD 12/06/0"
Pairs_Id 52006
Amount1 -300000.0
Amount2 15091500.10
Codifiers_Id 0
OriginalId 0
EOT
--blah blah blah
TBL Tradt_IN
CardRate 0.0
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my requirement is as below.
I need to replace a value in a particular column with a substitution variable(date value) and modified value of the current column value in the same position.
for ex.
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I have a requirement where i have to subtitue a word with another word.
$eachline| sed 's/*$//'
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b)
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I'm trying to figure out how to use a shell variable inside my sed command.
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echo $file | sed 's/'$test'//'
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
plan9-getflags
GETFLAGS(8) System Manager's Manual GETFLAGS(8)NAME
getflags, usage - command-line parsing for shell scripts
SYNOPSIS
getflags $*
usage [ progname ]
DESCRIPTION
Getflags parses the options in its command-line arguments according to the environment variable $flagfmt. This variable should be a list
of comma-separated options. Each option can be a single letter, indicating that it does not take arguments, or a letter followed by the
space-separated names of its arguments. Getflags prints an rc(1) script on standard output which initializes the environment variable
$flagx for every option mentioned in $flagfmt. If the option is not present on the command-line, the script sets that option's flag vari-
able to an empty list. Otherwise, the script sets that option's flag variable with a list containing the option's arguments or, if the
option takes no arguments, with the string 1. The script also sets the variable $* to the list of arguments following the options. The
final line in the script sets the $status variable, to the empty string on success and to the string usage when there is an error parsing
the command line.
Usage prints a usage message to standard error. It creates the message using $flagfmt, as described above, $args, which should contain the
string to be printed explaining non-option arguments, and $0, the program name (see rc(1)). If run under sh(1), which does not set $0, the
program name must be given explicitly on the command line.
EXAMPLE
Parse the arguments for leak(1):
flagfmt='b,s,f binary,r res,x width'
args='name | pid list'
if(! ifs=() eval `{getflags $*} || ~ $#* 0){
usage
exit usage
}
SOURCE
/src/cmd/getflags.c
/src/cmd/usage.c
SEE ALSO arg(3)GETFLAGS(8)