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Old 06-19-2009
Adding a word into a file.
Dear friends,
I am facing a problem with a flat file, to solve that file i need to add certain character in the file which I am not able to do because of "$" sign in the pattern.

Situation is as follows.
Flat file has word RMM$CART
I want to reple this word by RMM$CART DFD

The dollar "$" sign is creating problem.

Kindly suggest me the solution.
Thank you in advance

Anushree
# 2  
Old 06-19-2009
Sure. Please post , what you have tried.
# 3  
Old 06-19-2009
Hi dear,
Thak you for showing your interest.
Following two things I have tried.


find . -name "BMEZINE_TATTOOS" -print -exec sed "s/\RMM$CART/RMM$CART DFD/g;" {} \; > BMEZINE_TATTOOS_DFD

find . -name "BMEZINE_TATTOOS" -print -exec perl -pi -e "s/RMM$CART/RMM$CART DFD/g;" {} \;
# 4  
Old 06-19-2009
Try this...
Code:
sed 's/RMM$CART/RMM$CART DFD/g'

# 5  
Old 06-19-2009
you need to escape the $ symbol since it has a special meaning in Perl and sed:
Code:
find . -name "BMEZINE_TATTOOS" -print -exec perl -pi -e "s/RMM\$CART/RMM\$CART DFD/g;" {} \;

# 6  
Old 06-20-2009
find . -name "BMEZINE_TATTOOS" -print -exec sed "s/RMM\$CART/RMM\$CART DFD/g;" {} \; > BMEZINE_TATTOOS_DFD
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