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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Dynamic search and replace Post 302784353 by RudiC on Friday 22nd of March 2013 04:06:18 AM
Old 03-22-2013
Your request is very difficult to read and to understand. Meaningful samples of e.g. the file and the desired output had helped a lot, as is also stated in the forum rules.

If I apply some wild guessing to your request, I come to the conclusion that you want to modify file ssss by changing the 3rd field of every row to the value the user entered, either as a command line parameter (which, BTW, is lost in your above code snippet), or as the keyboard input interactively. Would this do the task:
Code:
awk '{$3=mInpVal}' mInpVal=$mInputValue ssss

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AUSEARCH_ADD_TIMESTAMP_ITEM(3)					  Linux Audit API				    AUSEARCH_ADD_TIMESTAMP_ITEM(3)

NAME
ausearch_add_timestamp_item - build up search rule SYNOPSIS
#include <auparse.h> int ausearch_add_timestamp_item(auparse_state_t *au, const char *op, time_t sec, unsigned milli, ausearch_rule_t how) DESCRIPTION
ausearch_add_timestamp_item adds an event time condition to the current audit search expression. The search conditions can then be used to scan logs, files, or buffers for something of interest. The op parameter specifies the desired comparison. Legal op values are <, <=, >=, > and =. The left operand of the comparison operator is the timestamp of the examined event, the right operand is specified by the sec and milli parameters. The how value determines how this search condition will affect the existing search expression if one is already defined. The possible val- ues are: AUSEARCH_RULE_CLEAR Clear the current search expression, if any, and use only this search condition. AUSEARCH_RULE_OR If a search expression E is already configured, replace it by (E || this_search_condition). AUSEARCH_RULE_AND If a search expression E is already configured, replace it by (E && this_search_condition). RETURN VALUE
Returns -1 if an error occurs; otherwise, 0 for success. APPLICATION USAGE
Use ausearch_add_item(3) and ausearch_add_interpreted_item(3) to add conditions that check audit record fields. Use ausearch_add_expres- sion(3) to add complex search expressions using a single function call. SEE ALSO
ausearch_add_expression(3), ausearch_add_item(3), ausearch_add_interpreted_item(3), ausearch_add_regex(3), ausearch_set_stop(3), ause- arch_clear(3), ausearch_next_event(3), ausearch-expression(5). AUTHOR
Miloslav Trmac Red Hat Nov 2007 AUSEARCH_ADD_TIMESTAMP_ITEM(3)
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