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# 8  
Old 02-11-2011
@Chubler_XL: I tried your script and it gives me "unmatched" something is not matching. Doesnt give me a lot to debug.

@guru: tried your sed command and it comes up with message ".cp : command not found"

@DGPickett: tried your sed command and it comes up with message "Illegal variable name"
# 9  
Old 02-11-2011
try:
Code:
while read line1 line2
do
file=`sed 's/"//g' <(echo $line2)`
cp  $file /tmp
done <new.txt

# 10  
Old 02-14-2011
@yinyuemi

I tried your code and when I execute it
Code:
=/usr/proj/1.txt : cannot open (=/usr/proj/1.txt)
cp: missing destination file
Try cp--help

This is what I have in new.txt

.include '/usr/proj/1.txt'
Last edited by Scott; 02-14-2011 at 02:11 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 11  
Old 02-14-2011
It seems that the single quotes in your "new.txt" file are causing trouble.

Code:
while read line1 line2
do
  file=`sed 's/["'\'']//g' <(echo $line2)`
  cp  "$file" /tmp
done < new.txt

# 12  
Old 02-14-2011
try this?
Code:
 while read line1 line2
do
file=`sed 's/'\''//g' <(echo $line2)`
cp $file tmp/
done

# 13  
Old 02-14-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by matbrow
@Chubler_XL: I tried your script and it gives me "unmatched" something is not matching. Doesnt give me a lot to debug.
Sounds like you might be using the csh shell (or another weird shell that dosn't support single quote over more than 1 line).

Try putting this updated awk program (added support for single quotes and optional period in front of include command) in a file called cpinclude:
Code:
/^[ \t\.]*include ["']/ {
     file=$0
     sub("[^\"']*[\"']", "",file)
     sub("[\"']$","",file)
     system("cp " file " ./temp")
}

And then from your csh (or whatever) prompt, where % is your prompt do:

Code:
% awk -f /path/to/cpinclude new.txt

# 14  
Old 02-14-2011
@scottn & @yin

Both the codes seems to work but in the statement

file=`sed xxxx`

It executes the sed statement correctly but puts an '=' sign before so when the cp command is executed it fails because it has an '=' sign also
It says "cannot open (=)

---------- Post updated at 05:58 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:57 PM ----------

@chubler

I am using csh shell

I did what you said and I get

' in expression1: ^ invalid char'
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