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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert a user input string after matched string in file Post 303022517 by tomislav91 on Sunday 2nd of September 2018 09:58:43 AM
Old 09-02-2018
I will try to combine with user input and variable match and text ehich i said earlier

------ Post updated at 08:58 AM ------

i did it like this
Code:
#!/bin/bash
read -p 'Enter number:' new
match='<color="red"  \/>'
text='text='this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />''

text0='<h1> <!-- COmment -->
this is a test
    </h1>'
text1="MARIA"
text2="JACK"
text3="BRAD"
ARR1=( 0 $text0 $text1 $text2 $text3 )
uservar=$new
for (( i=1; i<=uservar; i++)); do echo "$text" | sed "s/$match/&\n ${ARR1[i]}/" ;done

So when execute it prints me only a
Quote:
Enter number:3
this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />
this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />
this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />
It should print me
Quote:
Enter number:3
this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />
MARIA
JACK
BRAD
------ Post updated at 08:58 AM ------

Quote:
Originally Posted by tomislav91
I will try to combine with user input and variable match and text ehich i said earlier

------ Post updated at 08:58 AM ------

i did it like this
Code:
#!/bin/bash
read -p 'Enter number:' new
match='<color="red"  \/>'
text='text='this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />'

text0='<h1> <!-- COmment -->
this is a test
    </h1>'
text1="MARIA"
text2="JACK"
text3="BRAD"
ARR1=( 0 $text0 $text1 $text2 $text3 )
uservar=$new
for (( i=1; i<=uservar; i++)); do echo "$text" | sed "s/$match/&\n ${ARR1[i]}/" ;done

So when execute it prints me only a

It should print me
 

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NAME

       genbackupdata - generate backup test data

SYNOPSIS

       genbackupdata   [--chunk-size=SIZE]   [--config=FILE]  [-c=SIZE]  [--create=SIZE]  [--depth=DEPTH]  [--dump-config]  [--dump-setting-names]
       [--file-size=SIZE]  [--generate-manpage=TEMPLATE]  [-h]	[--help]  [--list-config-files]  [--log=FILE]  [--log-keep=N]  [--log-level=LEVEL]
       [--log-max=SIZE] [--max-files=MAX-FILES] [--no-default-configs] [--output=FILE] [--quiet] [--seed=SEED] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

       --chunk-size=SIZE
	      generate data in chunks of this size (default: 16384)

       --config=FILE
	      add FILE to config files

       -c, --create=SIZE
	      how much data to create (default: 0)

       --depth=DEPTH
	      depth of directory tree (default: 3)

       --dump-config
	      write out the entire current configuration

       --dump-setting-names
	      write out all names of settings and quit

       --file-size=SIZE
	      size of one file (default: 16384)

       --generate-manpage=TEMPLATE
	      fill in manual page TEMPLATE

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       --list-config-files
	      list all possible config files

       --log=FILE
	      write log entries to FILE

       --log-keep=N
	      keep last N logs (10)

       --log-level=LEVEL
	      log at LEVEL, one of debug, info, warning, error, critical, fatal (default: debug)

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	      rotate logs larger than SIZE, zero for never (default: 0)

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	      max files/dirs per dir (default: 128)

       --no-default-configs
	      clear list of configuration files to read

       --output=FILE
	      write output to FILE, instead of standard output

       --quiet
	      do not report progress

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	      seed for random number generator (default: 0)

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	      show program's version number and exit

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