Shell Programming and Scripting

Oh duh! Sorry

Yes! It worked! I had to edit the path it was searching for as it was changing things I didn't want it to change.

Would it be possible to change the code so that I only enter one directory (I will run the script on an individual directory basis) and also to simply over write the file it is editing?

I have a test system I'm running on so it doesn't matter if I break it.

If you want to overwrite the file, replace the three references to ${FILE}_new with TMP_00 and add this bit of code to the bottom of the script:

Code:

    else
      echo $LINE >> TMP_00
    fi
  done < $FILE
  mv TMP_00 $FILE
  rm TMP_00
done

Not quite sure what you mean by this though.. could you rephrase the question?

From what I have understood in your script, you enter two directories at the top and the script finds an entry which I specify (in this case LOC=/u/) and changes the first entry it finds to dirOne and the second one it finds to dirTwo?

If that's right, I would like to enter just one directory and have the script change entries which contain LOC=/u/[blah]/main to LOC=/u/dirOne/main.

I hope I'm doing a good job explaining... :|

Yes, that can work too.. see if this works:

Code:

echo -n "Enter a directory: "
read DIR
for FILE in `ls`
do
  while read LINE
  do
    echo $LINE | grep -q "/u/.*/main/"
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
      echo "/u/$DIR/main/" >> TMP_00
    else
      echo $LINE >> $TMP_00
    fi
  done < $FILE
  mv TMP_00 $FILE
  rm TMP_00
done

This could be done really quickly with a sed command:

Code:

echo -n "Enter a directory: "
read DIR
for FILE in `ls`
do
  sed -e 's/\/u\/.*\/main\//\/u\/'$DIR'\/main\//g' $FILE
done

but unfortunately to enter a directory like this/ismy/directory you'd have to type it in as this\\\/ismy\\\/directory

Sorry if this is mentioned above, I was trying to follow the whole "conversation"...

Does the script change between the times you deploy from one location to another?

You could use a "skeleton" script and only edit the variables.

Put a key word in the script so that when you deploy it, you only have to edit that key word. Don't change the already deployed script... only edit the skeleton and save it where you want it to be next... (new directory)...

ie I have the following control card detail.src that my users update via script.
R,detail.lis,0,<CO>,?,<DATERNG>,?,?,?,?,?,<ST>,1,0,60

the script prompts the user for a date rangs (from and to) and then a company code and state code then uses the skeleton file as input to create a new file.... :

sed -e "s/<DATERNG>/$DATE1,$DATE2/" \
-e "s/<CO>/$COMPANY/" \
-e "s/<ST>/$STATE/" <detail.src >detail.dat
Everytime it saves out a new file.

Does this help?

I'm not positive if this is what you're asking, but instead of using a skelaton file (I would call it a template) with my script I'm making the assumption that the directory already has some old configuration files in it, which my script essentially is using as templates to create new configuration files...

Thanks for your input MizzGail, but I'm afraid oombera is right... I'm not sure which script you refer to when you ask if it changes when it changes from one location to another... The idea is that the script stays the same and the only input the user should have, are the new pathnames in the config (.ini) files, which are entered when oombera's script asks for them.

Oombera, I tried your latest script and seems to have wiped the ini files and now they only contain LOC=/u/[DIR]/main... hehehe