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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Vi quick substitution commands Post 302901797 by Don Cragun on Thursday 15th of May 2014 04:05:17 PM

05-15-2014

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Originally Posted by SkySmart

i actually tried this already. unfortunately, this script actually has several variations of $(......)

i need to be able to only make the changes to back ticks if and only if the line contains:

Code:

=$(

and ends with a

Code:

SunOS could care less about $(cmd) versus `cmd`. However, /bin/sh on Solaris systems is an old Bourne shell that doesn't recognize the $(cmd) form of command substitution. If you can change your script to use /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, /usr/xpg6/bin/sh, /bin/ksh, or /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh as its interpreter, you won't need to change to back ticks.

If you can't, use the following command in vi to change the command substitutions following an equals sign that end at the end of a line in the file you're editing:

Code:

:g/=\$(\(.*\))$/s//=`\1`/

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