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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting vi Commands in a Script Post 37992 by djschmitt on Thursday 3rd of July 2003 11:41:35 AM
Old 07-03-2003
vi Commands in a Script
Perhaps there is a better way to do this, but right now this is all I can think of. If there is a better way to do this, all suggestions are welcome.

I would like to take a file and perform the following actions on it.

1. Search for CREATE TABLE
2. Copy that line and paste it one line above
3. Change the CREATE to a DROP
4. Change the '(' at the end to a ';'
5. Run until the EOF is reached, then save

I have a script written that goes as follows:

vi gl.ddl << EOF
/CREATE TABLE
yy
k
p
cw DROP
$
cw ;
n
n
ZZ
EOF

It currently does not work at all, and throws the following message when I try to execute it.

ex: 0602-134 An error occurred while reading input.

I initially thought it was a file permission problem, so set the perms to 777, but still receive the same message.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

Schmitty
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

locale::script

Locale::Script(3perl)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				     Locale::Script(3perl)

NAME

       Locale::Script - standard codes for script identification

SYNOPSIS

	  use Locale::Script;

	  $script  = code2script('phnx');		      # 'Phoenician'
	  $code    = script2code('Phoenician'); 	      # 'Phnx'
	  $code    = script2code('Phoenician',
				 LOCALE_CODE_NUMERIC);	      # 115

	  @codes   = all_script_codes();
	  @scripts = all_script_names();

DESCRIPTION

       The "Locale::Script" module provides access to standards codes used for identifying scripts, such as those defined in ISO 15924.

       Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the code set to use. If not specified, the default ISO 15924
       four-letter codes will be used.

SUPPORTED CODE SETS

       There are several different code sets you can use for identifying scripts. The ones currently supported are:

       alpha
	   This is a set of four-letter (capitalized) codes from ISO 15924 such as 'Phnx' for Phoenician.

	   This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_SCRIPT_ALPHA".

	   The Zxxx, Zyyy, and Zzzz codes are not used.

	   This is the default code set.

       numeric
	   This is a set of three-digit numeric codes from ISO 15924 such as 115 for Phoenician.

	   This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_SCRIPT_NUMERIC".

ROUTINES

       code2script ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       script2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
       script_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
       all_script_codes ( [CODESET] )
       all_script_names ( [CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::rename_script  ( CODE ,NEW_NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::add_script  ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::delete_script  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::add_script_alias  ( NAME ,NEW_NAME )
       Locale::Script::delete_script_alias  ( NAME )
       Locale::Script::rename_script_code  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::add_script_code_alias  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::delete_script_code_alias  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
	   These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes man page.

SEE ALSO

       Locale::Codes
       Locale::Constants
       http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/
	   Home page for ISO 15924.

AUTHOR

       See Locale::Codes for full author history.

       Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).

COPYRIGHT

	  Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE).
	  Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Neil Bowers
	  Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Sullivan Beck

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-26						     Locale::Script(3perl)
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