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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Shell Scripting , need to search and replace a string in AIX Post 302980914 by Don Cragun on Monday 5th of September 2016 03:26:34 AM
Old 09-05-2016
As I said before, using any of the following commands:
Code:
cat abc.txt > abc.txt
cat abc.txt | sed "any sed arguments" > abc.txt
sed "any sed arguments" abc.txt > abc.txt

will result in abc.txt being a file of size 0, containing absolutely no characters. So, the code that you say is working on your Linux systems cannot possibly do what you say it is doing. The following should come close to what you said you want on a Linux distribution and on an AIX system:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
IAm=${0##*/}

file="abc.txt"
tmpfile="$IAm".$$

trap 'rm -rf "$tmpfile"' EXIT

line_number=1
current_value=MOHIT
new_value=Ankit

# Function to convert a string to a BRE that will match a case-insensitive
# version of that string.
# Usage: string2CIBRE "string"
string2CIBRE() {
	awk -v s="$1" '
		BEGIN {	for(i = 1; i <= length(s); i++)
			printf("%s", ((L = substr(s, i, 1)) ~ /[[:alpha:]]/) ? \
			    "[" tolower(L) toupper(L) "]" : L)
		}
	'
}

printf 'Contents of "%s" before sed:\n' "$file"
cat "$file"
sed "${line_number}s/$(string2CIBRE "$current_value")/$new_value/g" "$file" > "$tmpfile"  &&
	cp "$tmpfile" "$file"
printf '**********\nContents of "%s" after sed:\n' "$file"
cat "$file"

If abc.txt contains the following before you run the above script:
Code:
Hello , My name is Mohit, all lowercase: mohit, all uppercase: MOHIT
I am learning shell script
Hello , My name is Mohit, all lowercase: mohit, all uppercase: MOHIT
I am learning shell script

the output from the above script will be:
Code:
Contents of "abc.txt" before sed:
Hello , My name is Mohit, all lowercase: mohit, all uppercase: MOHIT
I am learning shell script
Hello , My name is Mohit, all lowercase: mohit, all uppercase: MOHIT
I am learning shell script
**********
Contents of "abc.txt" after sed:
Hello , My name is Ankit, all lowercase: Ankit, all uppercase: Ankit
I am learning shell script
Hello , My name is Mohit, all lowercase: mohit, all uppercase: MOHIT
I am learning shell script

and, as indicated by the output, the contents of abc.txt after running the script will be:
Code:
Hello , My name is Ankit, all lowercase: Ankit, all uppercase: Ankit
I am learning shell script
Hello , My name is Mohit, all lowercase: mohit, all uppercase: MOHIT
I am learning shell script

In addition to working with bash, this should also work with a 1988 or a 1993 version of the Korn shell (ksh) or any other shell that performs basic POSIX shell required parameter expansions.
 

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