On top of what balajesuri already said, I don't think {$run} will yield what you expect it to yield, but it also would not yield what you posted ( [5] ). I'd expect something like {5}, rather. Same for {$block}. And, if a {2014} is inserted, I'd guess it's taken as read from the input file, which would imply you need to remove the {} first before using the data. Sample input data would help...
Howsoever, guessing your data structures etc. from what I see in post #1, how far would (untested)
get you?
I have a hostnames file which has:
$ cat hostnames.txt
serverxx1
serverxx2
serverxx3
My script:
#!/bin/sh
fileA=build.xml
for i in ./hostnames.txt ; do
sed 's/createConfig machine="Machine"/createConfig machine=" '$i' "/g' "$fileA" > ./tmpfile
done
FileA has:
createConfig... (2 Replies)
dear guys,
I want to replace the beginning of some lines in a file by (,)
The sequence number of lines is located in a file named numbers
so, i used this simple script to do so, but it didn't work. it does'nt recognize the $j in the command sed
#! /bin/sh
for j in `cat numbers`
do
sed '$j... (6 Replies)
Okay, title is kind of confusion, but basically, I have a lot of scripts on a server that I need to replace a ps command, however, the new ps command I'm trying to replace the current one with pipes to sed at one point. So now I am attempting to create another script that replaces that line.
... (1 Reply)
Hi there,
I have 1 file with different 144 lines and 144 files that I want to change with a sed.
What I want to do is to go trough the file with the 144 different lines take the line a replace a certain pattern with said in the first file of the folder where the 144 files are. Take the second... (3 Replies)
I have a file MAT.txt which contains the following data:
mat1.txt
mat2.txt
.
.
.
.
mat100.txt
I want to remove the '.txt' from every line and have an output file with the following data:
mat1
mat2
.
.
.
.
mat100
I know this can be done with sed easily for each line, but I do... (8 Replies)
Hi,
Please help me writing for loop to fetch data and store in variable from a text file which contains data as below:
12
46
56
5466
111
There are 40 lines of data...!!!!
I jus need all data from line no 4 to 40 ie data for 4,6,8......40. (2 Replies)
:wall:
I have a requirement to search a log file that never rotates for certain values. If I find them I pipe them to a another file. To log file is constanyl being appened with new lines and never rotating Easy so far.
The problem is I dont want to pipe out matches already seen before. ... (3 Replies)
Hello
I have a group of files
a1.profile a2.profile a3.profile a4.profile b1.profile b2.profile b3.profile b4.profile These files all have the same first line with a value s1 atop the columns
s1_context s1_ref s1_sample s1_% etc I am trying to use sed in a for loop to replace the s1 in the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file called 1.txt, I want to create 2.txt through 100.txt using a for loop. In each instance of the loop, I want to change all "1"'s in the text file to "2"s and so on...
I tried the code below to do this:
for i in {2..100}; do sed 's/1/$i/g' 1.txt > $i.txt; done
but it... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I work on Ab-initio ETL tool which is based on Unix. I made a small script which has two loop's one with in another. All the functionality is working for the first line of outer loop but when it comes to other lines of outer loop it is throwing error as command not found. Below is the... (4 Replies)