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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing exact directory variable Post 302706973 by gentlefury on Thursday 27th of September 2012 08:37:03 PM
Old 09-27-2012
Replacing exact directory variable

I am making a script to relocate a project file. I have all of the variables in place and everything is working except:

Quote:
sed -i.bak -e "s/$NFP/${NFPN}/" $ARCHIVEPATH/Script/${FILE}_renamed.nk
the first variable changes everytime it passes thru a loop. The second is a constant value.


when I run that it does what I want...but incorrectly. It is finding results that contain the current string....but sometimes the result is incorrect.

If the current string is

this/is/a/directory/here

and I need it to be

that/isnt/the/path/here

and it comes across

this/is/a/directory/and/more

it will change

this/is/a/directory/and/more

to

that/isnt/the/path/and/more

I don't want that. I only want it to change it if it matches 100%

I have tried:

Quote:
sed -i.bak -e s/$NFP$/${NFPN}/ $ARCHIVEPATH/Script/${FILE}_renamed.nk
it doesn't change anything

Quote:
sed -i.bak -e 's/'$NFP'/'${NFPN}''/' $ARCHIVEPATH/Script/${FILE}_renamed.nk
and
Quote:
sed -i.bak -e 's/'$NFP'/'${NFPN}''/g' $ARCHIVEPATH/Script/${FILE}_renamed.nk
with the same result.

I can not find a single function that will work!

my variables are all written out as

\/this\/is\/a\/directory btw, so that isn't the problem.

If anyone knows another solution to this I would REALLY appreciate it! I am not stuck on sed. It's just the only way I know to do this.

---------- Post updated at 07:35 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:53 PM ----------

I seem to be having the same issues with perl

---------- Post updated at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:35 PM ----------

perl seems to be a lot faster tho
 

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NAME
truncate - shrink or extend the size of a file to the specifed size SYNOPSIS
truncate OPTION... FILE... DESCRIPTION
Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size A FILE argument that does not exist is created. If a FILE is larger than the specified size, the extra data is lost. If a FILE is shorter, it is extended and the extended part (hole) reads as zero bytes. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --no-create do not create any files -o, --io-blocks Treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes -r, --reference=FILE use this FILE's size -s, --size=SIZE use this SIZE --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIZE is a number which may be followed by one of the following suffixes: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y. SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following modifying characters: `+' extend by, `-' reduce by, `<' at most, `>' at least, `/' round down to multiple of, `%' round up to multiple of. Note that the -r and -s options are mutually exclusive. AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady. REPORTING BUGS
Report truncate bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
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