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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare file to array, replace with corresponding second array Post 302685987 by gentlefury on Monday 13th of August 2012 08:07:16 PM
Old 08-13-2012
Compare file to array, replace with corresponding second array
ok, so here is the issue, I have 2 arrays.

I need to be able to create a loop that will find ${ARRAY1[1] in the text doc, and replace it with ${ARRAY2[1] then write the results. I already have that working. The problem is, I need it to do that same result across however many items are in the 2 arrays (they will always be an equal # and will always match instances in the target text file)

So, here is what I have so far

Quote:
LOOP=${#READ[@]}
for i in $(eval echo {0..$LOOP})
do
sed -e 's/'${ARRAY1[$i]}'/'${ARRAY2[$i]}''/'g' ${FILE}.txt
done
This is doing what I need it to do. The problem tho, is that, obviously it is printing ${FILE}.txt over and over and in each instance it is replacing the corresponding array value.

I need do the find/replace across all arrays then output the final result to a new file that contains all of the new data.

I tried:

Quote:
cp $FILE.txt ${FILE}_renamed.txt

LOOP=${#READ[@]}

for i in $(eval echo {0..$LOOP})
do
sed -e 's/'${ARRAY1[$i]}'/'${ARRAY2[$i]}''/'g' ${FILE}_renamed.txt > ${FILE}_renamed.txt
done
thinking, logically that would do the find and replace, open the new version containing the first find and replace do the next, etc until it resulted in what I need.

I end up with a blank document.

can somebody please tell me where I'm going wrong here.

I'm so close, I just don't know where to go from here!
Last edited by gentlefury; 08-13-2012 at 09:39 PM..
 

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mac2unix

dos2unix(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dos2unix(1)

NAME

       dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

       -c --convmode convmode
	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.

       -o --oldfile file ...
	      Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

       -n --newfile infile outfile ...
	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      dos2unix

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt b.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.  Convert	c.txt  from  Mac  to  Unix
       ascii format.

	      dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      dos2unix -k a.txt

	      dos2unix -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHORS

       Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>

       Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>

MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

	      Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8

	      SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3

	      MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

       Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

SEE ALSO

       unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)

1995.03.31							   dos2unix v3.0						       dos2unix(1)
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