Shell Programming and Scripting

hello,

i have a csh file that calls a program and stores the output in a variable. the output is:

Code:

\*\%VFT\$1\\3

as you can see there is a backslash before every non alphanumeric character. i save this output and then use SED to replace a word in a file with the output that i got.

however, after replacing the word when i look at the file the characters are: *%VFT$1\3 instead of \*\%VFT\$1\\3

i believe this is due to unix or csh or sed using backslash as escape character.

code below:

Code:

#!/bin/csh -f
set word = `applicationName parameter | awk 'NR==5 {print $9}'`  
# this saves \*\%VFT\$1\\3 in variable word 
# backslash before all non alphanumeric character
echo "$word"
sed  "s/iamuser/"$passwd"/g" < cshrc_Dev_Template > cshrcTest
# file cshrc_Dev_Template contains only one line which is below
# setenv TESTPASSWD iamuser

when i look into cshrcTest there is only one line below

Code:

setenv TESTPASSWD *%VFT$1\3

and i need to have a backslash before any non alphanumeric character.

sed is doing that. but let's back up for a second. you can do this (probably) with awk:

Code:

set word = `applicationName parameter | awk 'NR==5 {print $9}'`

So that's the output of the application into awk, and you want it to print out the 9th field of the 5th line, then you want to use that instead of the 3rd field of the line "setenv TESTPASSWD iamuser". You could just do:

Code:

applicationName parameter | awk 'NR==5 { print "setenv TESTPASSWD " $9; exit; }' > cshrcTest

hello,

the reason i can't do that is because the command below will actually look in to the file cshrc_Dev_Template and replace 'iamuser' with the given password...then store into cshrcTest. The problem is that i need to replace iamuser, with password. not just add the password into the file.
sed "s/iamuser/"$passwd"/g" < cshrc_Dev_Template > cshrcTest

In your original (pseudo?) code, you never output the user's id, so I don't see why that makes a difference. You are simply appending a line of output to a Test file. The password is coming from the application. Look at your original post again, and tell me how what you are now asking for makes sense.