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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Editing a file using a script Post 36367 by Ypnos on Wednesday 28th of May 2003 06:02:35 AM
Old 05-28-2003
Editing a file using a script

Hi

I have about 10 config files belonging to software that runs on SCO UNIX. These files contain, amongst many other things, a path which points to the software locations. We normally have to change them manually every time the software is coppied to a new location and when you gotta do a few times a day, it becomes quite laboreous.

I would like to know how to change all these paths using a single script. I'm hoping to have the user enter the 2 different paths once and let the script find the paths in these files (line numbers for the paths vary from file to file) and over write them with the new ones.

It is worth noting that the only alterations that can be made to the config files are the path names. Anything else will cause the software that reads them, to disappear up its own backside.

I hope I'm being clear and I look forward to some help Smilie
 

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