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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to read specified value from file and echo to the same location to other file. Post 302915225 by ausdim on Monday 1st of September 2014 05:17:13 PM
Old 09-01-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by junior-helper
That is really too bad, because almost everything is bash-specific in my script. Unfortunately I have no prerequisites to help you further. I could rewrite it in perl, if it's an option.
After compiled bash for arm your script is working... Smilie

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
You could try this instead, which is a translation of junior-helper's "restore" bash 4 code into more universal shell code and should run in any POSIX compliant shell, including bash and ksh:

Code:
while IFS= read -r line
do
  case $line in
    (*default:*) IFS= read -r line <&3
  esac
  printf "%s\n" "$line"
done <config.json 3<def >config.json.new

# mv config.json.new config.json

Exactly what i want...
Working also on arm without any further requirements. Smilie

Many thanks to all of you.
 

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PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)					      General Commands Manual					     PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)

NAME
pct-scanner-script - easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving SYNOPSIS
pct-scanner-script [--help] DESCRIPTION
pct-scanner-script is a bash script and configuration system to easily scan documents and create a digital archiving. It can create DjVu PDF and JPEG outputs, in merged and individual files. It also has a configuration system where different configurations can be defined, making it easy to switch between configurations. Please use pct-scanner-script --help to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples. Features: - auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files - auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails - cascading configuration system, for easy customizing - easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options - archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners - built for productivity and daily use - uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools - multilanguage commandline output OPTIONS
-h, --help, -? Show summary of options, help, and examples. DEBUGGING
This program is a helper script to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. You can debug this script by running it as bash -x pct-scanner-script [options]. The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools. SEE ALSO
scanadf(1), AUTHOR
pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by: Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>. March 31, 2009 PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)
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