Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am new to sed scriping but do have some basic scripting skills. I have a properties file props.conf with name/value pairs written in it. Sample is

Code:

 
Name1=test
Name2=notest

Then I have a template file (can be xml or simple text) which will have 'keys' embedded in it. Keys can only be from those mentioned (not all but some) in props.conf file. Sample template.txt file is as below

Code:

 
My name is : Name1
I live in OZ
My last name is : Name2

I want to have script which will replace all the 'keys' in the template file with the values mentioned in props.conf file. So output should look like :

Code:

 
My name is : test
I live in OZ
My last name is : no test

Also some of the values in props.conf file will have special characters (such as forward slash) in them so they should be replaced in output file as it as.

I have been trying to work it out but cannot. Following is script I have got but it is no where close to what I need to get.

Code:

 
IFS="="
 
while read f1 f2
do
  sed "s!\#\#\*$f1\*\#\#!$f2!g" template.txt > template.txt
done < props.conf

Please can someone help. Will be appreciated :-)

try

Code:

nawk 'NR == FNR{a[$2] = $1; next}
  {for(x in a)
    {gsub(a[x],x)};
    print}' FS='\=' props.conf file.xml

This one seems be doing the job for txt file but have not tested with xml files. yet.

Code:

IFS="="
while read f1 f2
do
  sed "s!\#\#\*$f1\*\#\#!$f2!g" template.txt > template1.txt
  mv template.txt template1.txt
done < props.conf