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Top Forums Programming How to replace the complex strings from a file using sed or awk? Post 302936489 by Badhrish on Thursday 26th of February 2015 01:46:10 AM
Old 02-26-2015
Hi DRL-Sorry that I missed to mention my system info. It is GNU\LINUX. And I fount that colordiff package is not present. Since I am focusing on multi-platform compatibility(UNIX/LINUX) I wouldn't able to use this command in my script. I really appreciate your help thus far Smilie

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Hi Rudi- Your awk works perfect for my XML files also. But when I convert my final text file into HTML report using enscript command all symbols "<"and">" are converted to underlying code "&lt;" and "&gt;". This affects including font tags too(which is not desired).
Code:
&lt;font color="red"&gt; and &lt;/font&gt;

Hence in the browser they appear as is. That is why I applied enscript command in 1st place and appended the file with awk so as to get the proper output like below, but this time as i mentioned earlier all the lines are effected.
Code:
<font color="red"> and </font>


Last edited by Badhrish; 02-26-2015 at 08:54 AM..
 

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DIFFPP(1)							      DIFFPP								 DIFFPP(1)

NAME
diffpp - pretty-print diff outputs with GNU enscript SYNOPSIS
diffpp currentfile < diff-file DESCRIPTION
Diffpp converts diff(1)-program's output files to a format suitable to be printed with GNU enscript(1). Program annotates the changes with enscript's special escapes so enscript can highlight the modified portions of the file. All changed and added lines are printed with gray-background, deleted lines are marked with minus (`-') characters; diffpp prints one minus character for each deleted line. EXAMPLES
The easiest way to use diffpp is to use it as an input filter for enscript. If an input filter is specified for enscript it is used to pre-process the incoming data-stream. Filtering does not alter any header strings or file-timestamps which might be printed on enscript headers; only the incoming data is modified. enscript -G2re --filter='rcsdiff %s | diffpp %s' *.c *.h Print the changes between current source files and their latest RCS-versions. enscript -G2re --filter='diff %s~ %s | diffpp %s' *.c *.h Print changes between source files and the corresponding backup-files. SEE ALSO
diff(1), enscript(1) AUTHOR
Markku Rossi <mtr@iki.fi> <http://www.iki.fi/~mtr/> DIFFPP
Jan 29, 1997 DIFFPP(1)
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