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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed command not working for me to change text in a file Post 302990906 by bakunin on Thursday 2nd of February 2017 02:34:44 PM
Old 02-02-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
I believe this would more or less do what you require:
Code:
sed '/case/,/esac/{s/^:\(.*\)/\1*)/;}' file

But in order to turn it into shell case statement you also need to introduce proper indentation and closing ;; after every command list.
Concur, but AIX-sed is a little bit peculiar about formatting programs:

Code:
sed '/case/,/esac/ {;s/^:\(.*\)/\1*)/;}' file

@thread-op:

Instead of this:
Code:
sed -e '1,/case $JOBNAME/d' -e '/esac/,$d' $TWSDATAFILE |grep : > $TWSTARGETFILE1
BADLINES=`cat $TWSTARGETFILE1`
for line in $BADLINES
do
[...]

This does the same with less effort (if you even need the intermediary file $TWSTARGETFILE1 as it is not used in the script at all - if you don't, remove the tee-command from the pipeline):
Code:
sed -n '/case/,/esac/ /^:/p' | tee $TWSTARGETFILE1 | while read line ; do
[...]

bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 02-02-2017 at 03:48 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

irsend

IRSEND(1)							   User Commands							 IRSEND(1)

NAME

       irsend - basic LIRC program to send infra-red commands

SYNOPSIS

       irsend [options] DIRECTIVE REMOTE CODE [CODE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Asks the lircd daemon to send one or more CIR (Consumer Infra-Red) commands. This is intended for remote control of electronic devices such
       as TV boxes, HiFi sets, etc.

       DIRECTIVE can be:
	  SEND_ONCE	    - send CODE [CODE ...] once
	  SEND_START	    - start repeating CODE
	  SEND_STOP	    - stop repeating CODE
	  LIST		    - list configured remote items
	  SET_TRANSMITTERS  - set transmitters NUM [NUM ...]
	  SIMULATE	    - simulate IR event

       REMOTE is the name of a remote, as described in the lircd configuration file.

       CODE is the name of a remote control key of REMOTE, as it appears in the lircd configuration file.

       NUM is the transmitter number of the hardware device.

       For the LIST DIRECTIVE, REMOTE and/or CODE can be empty:

	  LIST	 ""    ""   - list all configured remote names
	  LIST REMOTE  ""   - list all codes of REMOTE
	  LIST REMOTE CODE  - list only CODE of REMOTE

       The SIMULATE command only works if it has been explicitly enabled in lircd.

       -h --help
	      display usage summary

       -v --version
	      display version

       -d --device
	      use given lircd socket [/var/run/lirc/lircd]

       -a --address=host[:port]
	      connect to lircd at this address

       -# --count=n
	      send command n times

EXAMPLES

	  irsend LIST DenonTuner ""
	  irsend SEND_ONCE  DenonTuner PROG-SCAN
	  irsend SEND_ONCE  OnkyoAmpli VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP
	  irsend SEND_START OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN ; sleep 3
	  irsend SEND_STOP  OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN
	  irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
	  irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1 3 4
	  irsend SIMULATE "0000000000000476 00 OK TECHNISAT_ST3004S"

FILES

       /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
	      Default lircd configuration file.  It should contain all the remotes, their infra-red codes and the corresponding timing	and  wave-
	      form details.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If lircd is not running (or /var/run/lirc/lircd lacks write permissions) irsend aborts with the following diagnostics:
       "irsend: could not connect to socket"
       "irsend: Connection refused" (or "Permission denied").

SEE ALSO

       The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in the documentation directory.

       lircd(8), mode2(1), smode2(1), xmode2(1), irrecord(1), irw(1), http://www.lirc.org.

irsend 0.9.0-pre1						   October 2010 							 IRSEND(1)
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