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assuming there is embedded sed code, then
's/^syslogd.*$/&\n*ACTION \/etc\/init.d\/syslog start/'
substitutes the current line by itself plus a new line.
This is the same as...

The following file has another separator at the end of the command field
RHEL:syslogd:sed -i '/^syslogd/ a*ACTION /etc/init.d/syslog start/' $CFG_DIR/ps_mon.cfg:
RHEL:ntpd:"sed -i '/^ntpd/ a*ACTION...

For this kind of situations there is the eval keyword. Its use is always the last resort, so this is not a "recommendation" and the advice is to handle it with extreme care.

Since you don't show...

You might have more success in using awk in filter your control file.

Slight change in format of control file:

RHEL apple
echo apple
RHEL bravo
ls -l bravo*
RHEL church
chmod...

Ok, let us start with the easy part: the most basic thing you have to take care of is the difference between these systems: HP-UX has (IIRC) a Korn Shell as default shell, some Linux systems (sorry,...

Enclose the $line in double quote to have the shell preserve spaces within.

But, I may be thick-witted, but the entire problem escapes me, even with the new sample.
OK, you have the OS - however...

First of all check if these are symbolic links.

By default find command does not follow if it is a symbolic link.

You have to use -follow option which causes find to follow symbolic links:...

That use of -follow has no effect whatsoever since no symbolic link occurs after it. Not all find implementations support -follow, and it's deprecated for those that do.

If you are correct and the...

Try
file_name=`awk -F, -vextract=$file_count -vcomp=$component '$1 ~ comp { print $extract }' list.txt`

With perl:
perl -p -e 's/(RUNCYCLE)(\s\S+)/\1/g' infile

With sed:
sed 's/RUNCYCLE [^ *]*/RUNCYCLE/g' file