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yeah I took a step back and decided to alter an earlier step in the process, so I actually have this:

@@@one@@@:@@@field one@@@,
@@@two@@@:@@@field two@@@,
@@@three@@@:@@@he said "hello"@@@
...

no problem, yeah I'm trying that with the bash $RANDOM var for the temp file, as the operation I'm coding for could be happening often, and possibly at the same time.

thanks again, if I keep...

I think that's it! Thank you so much! It's a complex line and I'm going to put the time in to understand it. One last question is how I could combine it with sed so I can have the line in a bash...

That's nearly it, except I need the new lines to be replaced with the explicit text '\n' in field three (so that later on, they can be replaced with <BR>). Also, do you know how I could combine that...

That works great on that example, it doesn't quite work on my actual file (which I can't actually post unfortunately, without subbing the data out). If we can break down the parts I'd be grateful,...

OK, the saga continues. I am nearly done, but have this structure left, e.g.:

"one":"field one",
"two":"field two",
"three":"
field three line 1

field three line 2

field three line 3
"
...

Found it, I just needed to add

filename="$1"

at the top of my bash script, then refer to $filename thereafter.

thanks again yinyuemi, and thanks for the link ctsgnb - that helped with some...

Thanks again. That worked from the command line when I added some empty single quotes after the -i. However, I'd like it to be executable from within a bash script, as it will be one stage in a...

ah OK, I wasn't sure if it could be done in one step.

Thanks for all your help, much appreciated.

Yinyuemi,

That's it! It was printing to stout, so I added '> outputfile.txt' at the end, and I got a new file with the text appended correctly. Is there something I can do to append the results...

hi yinyuemi,

Thanks for the help. That script does write to line 1 so is a big help, however it bumps everything else down. I'm looking to append it to the existing line 1. Can I ask what your...

hello all,

First time post here. I have searched a bit but could not find an exact answer. I have about a week's experience of Sed and Awk, and am having fun, but am a little stuck.

I am...