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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed command to substitute contents from external file Post 302783791 by hanson44 on Thursday 21st of March 2013 03:03:50 AM
Old 03-21-2013
Seems to work here, and I'm pretty sure those are standard sed commands.

Code:
$ cat InputFile.txt
before
Parameters "CParameters"
after

$ cat TextToReplace.txt
aaa
bbb

$ sed -e '/Parameters "CParameters"/r TextToReplace.txt' -e "//d" InputFile.txt
before
aaa
bbb
after

$ sed -e '/CParameters/r TextToReplace.txt' -e "//d" InputFile.txt
before
aaa
bbb
after

You don't need to \ escape the "CParameters" double quotes, because inside the single quotes. I avoid those confusing \ characters if possible.

Any chance there is a tab character in the pattern? Maybe there is something about the pattern that is "funny" and is confusing us. You might try to find the pattern with grep first, to figure out the regular expression. Another option is to experiment with the final version above with simple pattern, verify that works, then move on to the longer pattern.
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sethead

sethead(1)						      General Commands Manual							sethead(1)

Name
       sethead - Set FITS or IRAF header keyword values

Synopsis
       sethead [-dknv][r letter] <FITS or IRAF file> kw1=val1 kw2=val2 ... kwn=valuen

Description
       Set parameters in the header of a FITS or IRAF image.  If the keywords do not already exist, they are added at the end of the header.  Val-
       ues are assumed to be numeric if they contain no alphabetic characters and right-aligned.  Otherwise they are left-aligned after the equals
       sign,  and padded by spaces to a minimum of 8 characters.  To set keywords in a list of files, substitute @<listfile> for the file names on
       the command line.  To set a lot of keywords, put them, one per line, in a file and substitute @<keylistfile> on the command line.  If two @
       commands  are  present,	the  program  will figure out which contains file names and which contains keywords.  Lines in a keyword list file
       which do not contain an = are ignored.

Options
       -h     Write HISTORY line into output header with sethead version, current date and time, and names of keywords set.

       -k     Write SETHEAD keyword into output header with sethead version, current date and time, and names of keywords set.	If a SETHEAD  key-
	      word already exists, move the old value to a HISTORY line before writing the new value

       -n     Write a new file with an added "e" before the extension.

       -r letter
	      Rename  existing keywords whose values are being reset by prepending the character "letter".  Drop the last character if the changed
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       -v     Print confirmations of each parameter setting

Web Page
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Author
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