Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there.!

I'm trying to make a script that corrects wrong spelling. I want to use sed to replace wrong word with the correct one, but this must be made in a while loop that reads the wrong word from file (with read line) and the correct one from another file. I can't find a way to run sed like this.

This is the part of my code:

Code:

while read line
      do
        echo $line": mispelled"
        echo "Write the correct word:"
        read x <> /dev/tty
        echo $x > file
        sed 's/$line/$cat file/'g $1 > newfile
      done< errors

I think that $line and $cat file is wrong but I don't have any idea and I can't also save them in variables.

I would appreciate your help if possible

Thanks,
Spiridoula

Code:

sed "s/$line/$cat file/"g $1

Thanks.! But nothing changed.! The word is not replaced...Ouf.!

No need to echo $x out to a file just use it in your sed script directly:

Code:

sed "s/$line/$x/g" $1 > newfile

What if you have teh => the what about words like tehran and gatehouse?
Have you considered how different case letters should be handled?