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Old 10-26-2009
Problem updated file with new entries

Hi,

I have a file, fileA, that consists of two fields. Field 1 has an old object name, and field 2 has a new object name. I would like to search and replace a master file, FileB, by substituting the old object name (field 1 in fileA) with the new object name ( field 2 in fileA).

FileA:
Code:
old_name1 new_name1
old_name2 new_name2
old_name3 new_name3

FileB:
Code:
Employee name: old_name1
Employee name: old_name2
Employee name: old_name3


Code:
#! /bin/sh -vx
for i in FileA
do
OLD=`echo $i | awk '{print $1}'`
NEW=`echo $i | awk '{print $2}'`

sed "s/$OLD/$NEW/g" FileB >> FileB.new
done

The above code does not evaluate the $NEW variable. Can someone please assist?


Thanks,
Anthony

Last edited by Franklin52; 10-26-2009 at 05:39 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 10-26-2009
Looks like there is a problem in the for loop; why don't you change the for loop to the following:

Code:
while read i
do
 old=`echo $i | awk '{print $1}'`
 new=`echo $i | awk '{print $2}'`

done < FileA


Last edited by Franklin52; 10-26-2009 at 05:39 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 3  
Old 10-26-2009
Thanks for your assistance. After making the changes that you suggested, I am getting the correct substitution.


Best regards,
Anthony
# 4  
Old 10-26-2009
Hi, instead of:
Code:
for i in fileA; do

for this to work you would need:
Code:
for i in $(cat fileA); do

or better, use a while loop and then you do not need the awks:

Code:
while read old new; do
  sed -n "s/$old$/$new/p" FileB
done < FileA > FileB.new

=======

=======
If your files are not too massive you could use a faster solution:
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR {A[$1]=$2;next} {$3=A[$3]} 1' FileA FileB > FileB.new

or use ksh which also has associative arrays:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
typeset -A newname;
while read old new; do
 newname[$old]=$new
done < FileA

while read field1a field1b empl;do
  echo "$field1a $field1b ${newname[$empl]}"
done < FileB > FileB.new

There could be a problem with this setup if any of those employees have spaces in their names. In that case I think you may need to use a different field separator in the files instead of a space and use "" around that variable names.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-26-2009 at 04:52 AM..
# 5  
Old 10-26-2009
Thanks again for the input. How can I use vi command inside the shell script (/bin/sh) to make the substitutions and save the updates to a new file? I am having problems with the format using sed.

Thanks,
Anthony
# 6  
Old 10-26-2009
Did you try the sed I suggested?
Code:
sed -n "s/$old$/$new/p"

Otherwise you'll end up with a very long file.

---------- Post updated 10-26-09 at 01:44 AM ---------- Previous update was 10-25-09 at 11:29 PM ----------

Oops,
These solutions would only work if every name in FileB needs to get changed. If some of the names have to remain unchanged then we need a different solution.
# 7  
Old 10-26-2009
Actually, I need to keep the contents of the original file in tact changing only the sed substitutions.

Thanks,
Anthony
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