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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to replace a string in a file using another file as source? Post 303002636 by Peter Roday on Tuesday 29th of August 2017 02:21:39 PM
Old 08-29-2017
How to replace a string in a file using another file as source?

I have a file with two columns of alpha numeric strings, I need to replace in another file all the appearances of any string in column A with the correspondent string in column B, I tried this but it is not working:

Code:
for i in `awk '{print $1}' test_file`; do for j in `awk '{print $2}' test_file`; do sed 's/$i/$j/g' test_file1  > test_file2; done; done

as a test if I do this:

Code:
for i in `awk '{print $1}' test_file`; do for j in `awk '{print $2}' test_file`; do echo $i:$j; done; done

I got the list of strings correctly, but the replacement doesn't work

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Last edited by Peter Roday; 08-29-2017 at 04:01 PM..
 

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