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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed X amount of times - X is dynamic Post 62545 by Loriel on Thursday 17th of February 2005 03:47:47 AM
Old 02-17-2005
sed X amount of times - X is dynamic
I'm trying to make a bash shell script that will allow a user to modify another file based on input they give. Maybe someone can see what I'm doing wrong here. I'm still pretty new at this...

Let's say my temp file contains this:
Code:
0 1 HELLO 3 4

And here's the code:
Code:
old=(0 1 3 4)
new=(zero one two three four five)

cat temp | for i in ${old[@]}; do sed "s=$i=${new[$i]}=g"; let i++; done

The output would then be redirected to a new file. The problem is, that only the first sed is ever applied. For instance, if I change the last command to allow it to echo $i:
Code:
cat temp | for i in ${old[@]}; do echo $i; sed "s=$i=${new[$i]}=g"; let i++; done

then the output looks like this:
Code:
0
zero 1 HELLO 3 4
1
3
4

The reason I'm trying to do a for/while loop instead of simply piping to sed each time, is that the 'new' array is populated by user input, and can have as many or few elements as the user desires. Any help would be appreciated.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       checkbashisms, based on one of the checks from the lintian system, performs basic checks on /bin/sh shell scripts for the possible presence
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