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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding a text in files & replacing it with unique strings Post 302762205 by gordom on Monday 28th of January 2013 08:35:13 AM
Old 01-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
First off, could you PLEASE stay away from the text formatting!
Sorry for that - it was unintentionally. I pasted a text from word processor - my mistake. The original post was already corrected.

Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
In this case the interpretable command would be "pattern1=abc" and "def" and "geh" would be treated as (indecipherable) other commands, which perhaps leads to some error message, in addition to "pattern1" not having the value you expect it to have.
That exactly what was happening.

Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
Code:
while IFS=";" read file pattern replacement ; do
     sed "s/${pattern}/${replacement}/" "$file" > tmpfile
     mv tmpfile "$file"
done

Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Little to add to bakunin's explanations, except for the data source to read from: redirect input of the entire loop to your file.csv:... done < file.csv
In the end, thanks everyone for help. Specially bakunin & RudiC - the script seems to work perfect now. Great Smilie
Regards,
gordom
 

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