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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trying to take file numbers from a file, pass them to sed to change strings in corresponding lines Post 302896192 by crunchgargoyle on Saturday 5th of April 2014 06:59:09 AM
Old 04-05-2014
Trying to take file numbers from a file, pass them to sed to change strings in corresponding lines
I have a bunch of file numbers in the file 'test':

I'm trying the above command to change all the instances of "H" to "Na+" in the file testsds.pdb at the line numbers indicated in the file 'test'. I've tried the following and various similar alternatives but nothing is working:

Code:
cat test | while read line; do line=$line"s"; sed -i "$line/H  /Na+/" testsds.pdb >> well ; done

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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nl

NL(1)								   User Commands							     NL(1)

NAME

       nl - number lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       nl [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -b, --body-numbering=STYLE
	      use STYLE for numbering body lines

       -d, --section-delimiter=CC
	      use CC for logical page delimiters

       -f, --footer-numbering=STYLE
	      use STYLE for numbering footer lines

       -h, --header-numbering=STYLE
	      use STYLE for numbering header lines

       -i, --line-increment=NUMBER
	      line number increment at each line

       -l, --join-blank-lines=NUMBER
	      group of NUMBER empty lines counted as one

       -n, --number-format=FORMAT
	      insert line numbers according to FORMAT

       -p, --no-renumber
	      do not reset line numbers for each section

       -s, --number-separator=STRING
	      add STRING after (possible) line number

       -v, --starting-line-number=NUMBER
	      first line number for each section

       -w, --number-width=NUMBER
	      use NUMBER columns for line numbers

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

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       missing second character implies :.  Type \ for .  STYLE is one of:

       a      number all lines

       t      number only nonempty lines

       n      number no lines

       pBRE   number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular expression, BRE

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       ln     left justified, no leading zeros

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