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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding text from a variable using sed (Or awk) with punctuation Post 302996015 by joeg1484 on Monday 17th of April 2017 12:20:37 PM
Old 04-17-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Try escaping the <new line> chars when assigning the text variable:

Code:
text='-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+\
This content is or could contain personal information.\
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+'

Please be aware that some sed versions NEED a \<new line> combination after the a command.

The awk doesn't do "something similar" - it's just seeing an unterminated string in your post.

Hi RudiC,

This works GREAT! However, it also removes all the lines after adding the new lines...

I need to keep the lines that exist after inserting the text... For example, ther are ##endbody and some other formatting commands afterwards.

Thanks again!

---------- Post updated at 10:20 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:09 AM ----------

There another issue that I solved using this:

Code:
sed "0,/##body/s//##body\n$text/"

there were multiple ##body tags LOL... So, I search and replaced the first option.

Thanks again for the help on this!
Joe
 

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PYP(1)							      General Commands Manual							    PYP(1)

NAME
pyp - The Pyed Piper: A Modern Python Alternative to awk, sed and Other Unix Text Manipulation Utilities SYNOPSIS
pyp [options] files ... DESCRIPTION
pyp, the Pyed Piper, is a command line tool for text manipulation. It is similar to awk and sed in functionality, but its subcommands are Python based, and thus more familiar to many programmers. It can operate both on a per-line base and on the complete input stream. Different features can be pipelined in a single command by using the pipe character familiar from shell commands. pyp backs up its input for reruns with modified commands, and can save commands as macros. On the downside, the rerun feature makes it unsuitable for continuous pipe operation. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, use --manual. -h, --help Show this help message and exit. -m, --manual Prints out extended help. -l, --macro_list Lists all available macros. -s MACRO_SAVE_NAME, --macro_save=MACRO_SAVE_NAME Saves current command as macro. use "#" for adding comments EXAMPLE: pyp -s "great_macro # prints first letter" "p[1]". -f MACRO_FIND_NAME, --macro_find=MACRO_FIND_NAME Searches for macros with keyword or user name. -d MACRO_DELETE_NAME, --macro_delete=MACRO_DELETE_NAME Deletes specified public macro. -g, --macro_group Specify group macros for save and delete; default is user. -t TEXT_FILE, --text_file=TEXT_FILE Specify text file to load. For advanced users, you should typically cat a file into pyp. -x, --execute Execute all commands. -c, --turn_off_color Prints raw, uncolored output. -u, --unmodified_config Prints out generic PypCustom.py config file. -b BLANK_INPUTS, --blank_inputs=BLANK_INPUTS Generate this number of blank input lines; useful for generating numbered lists with variable 'n'. -n, --no_input Use with command that generates output with no input; same as --dummy_input 1. -k, --keep_false Print blank lines for lines that test as False. default is to filter out False lines from the output. -r, --rerun Rerun based on automatically cached data from the last run. Use this after executing "pyp", pasting input into the shell, and hitting CTRL-D. SEE ALSO
awk(1), grep(1), sed(1). AUTHOR
pyp was written by Toby Rosen <tobyrosen@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Khalid El Fathi <khalid@elfathi.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). March 19, 2012 PYP(1)
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