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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed not taking variable value Post 303014448 by sdosanjh on Monday 12th of March 2018 04:12:45 PM
Old 03-12-2018
sed not taking variable value

Hi All,
Could you please help me, why sed is not able to take variable value when I try to replace using sed.
I want to replace 2nd column (time) and keeping intact others.

Code:
cur="09:30"
CODE="VL"
new="09:35"

sed s/'\(.*def.monitor."${CODE}".qStart.*\)"${cur}"\(.*read\)/\1"${new}"\2'/g $FILE > /tmp/newFile

From
Code:
abcxx.def.monitor.VL.qStart         09:30               read

TO
Code:
abcxx.def.monitor.VL.qStart         09:35               read



Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use CODE tags correctly (i.e. not enclosing a (sub)total text) as required by forum rules!

Last edited by RudiC; 03-12-2018 at 05:35 PM.. Reason: Changed CODE tags.
 

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fixnt(1)							      Debian								  fixnt(1)

NAME
fixnt - Filter for the Windows NT postscript printer driver. SYNOPSIS
fixnt < BADFILE.ps > GOODFILE.ps DESCRIPTION
The Windows NT postscript driver has a tendency to make broken postscript files, that are incompatible with psutils. fixnt is a filter that fixes these problems, allowing the use of psnup(1). The filter takes the broken postscript file on stdin, and outputs a fixed postscript file on stdout. It has no other form for invocation and takes no options on the command-line. OPTIONS
fixnt takes no options. BUGS
fixnt does not check for NTPSOct94. For a workaround, use a sed(1) command to replace 'NTPSOct94' with 'NTPSOct95', like so: sed 's/NTPSOct94/NTPSOct95/g' This is particularly important for Windows NT 3.5 users. AUTHOR
fixnt was written by Holger Bauer <Holger.Bauer@topmail.de>, Michael Rath <rath@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>, and Akim Demaille <demaille@inf.enst.fr>. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to the Authors, but avoid sending large postscript files. Patches are always welcome; send to <bauer@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>. SEE ALSO
psnup(1), sed(1) a2ps February 2003 fixnt(1)
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