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# 1  
Old 06-08-2011
Replacing line 'i' of file1 with line 'j' of file 2
Hi All,
As mentioned in the title I have two text files and I would like to replace line number 5 of file #1 with line number 4 of file #2

e.g.

file 1
Code:
wqwert
4.4464002
3
319
286
369
46.320002
56.150002
45.100002
1
1
1
0.723

file 2
Code:
3
4.25450
361.0
351.0
319.0

result

Code:
wqwert
4.4464002
3
319
351.0
369
46.320002
56.150002
45.100002
1
1
1
0.723

Any suggestion? I've been looking around but I couldn't find anything specific.
Cheers,
Sarah
# 2  
Old 06-08-2011
Code:
line=`sed '4,4p' file2`
sed '5 c\
$line' file1

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# 3  
Old 06-08-2011
Code:
 awk '{if(NR!=5){print;next}system("head -4 file2|tail -1")}' file1

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# 4  
Old 06-08-2011
Code:
nawk '{if(NR==5){system("sed -n '4p' file2")} else {print}}' file1

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# 5  
Old 06-08-2011
One more thing:
Using the option
Code:
awk '{if(NR!=5){print;next}system("head -4 file2|tail -1")}' file1

I would like to have to use variables instead of numbers. E.g. having defined:
Code:
POSITIONS_CASE5=("5" "7" "8" "9" "10")
LINES_CASE5=("3" "4" "5" "6" "7")
for (( j=0;j<1;j++)); do
    echo $j ${POSITIONS_CASE5[${j}]} ${LINES_CASE5[${j}]}
    awk '{if(NR!='$POSITIONS_CASE5[$j]'  ){print;next}system("head -$LINES_CASE5[$j]  file02.dat|tail -1")}' ${TMPFILE}1
done

does nothing. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you,
# 6  
Old 06-08-2011
Seems you'd like to replace more than one line at same.

create a template file first:
Code:
$ cat template
5 3
6 4
7 5
8 6
9 7
10 8

Then run the awk command, you will get the result directly.
Code:
awk 'FILENAME=="template" {a[$2]=$1} 
     FILENAME=="file1" {b[FNR]=$0} 
     FILENAME=="file2" {print (FNR in a)?b[FNR]:$0}
    ' template file1 file2

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# 7  
Old 06-09-2011
Hi,
yes you are correct I hae to replace 'v1' in file ${TMPFILE}1 with line B of file file02.dat
but you script doesn't seem to do that. I mean it replaces some strings but the file that obtain is not what I expect.
This is what I got so far. It doesn't seem to accept the parameter B.

Code:
#/bin/bash
POSITIONS_CASE5=("5" "7" "8" "9" "10" "11" "12" "13" "14" "15" "16" "31" "34" "35" "38" "57" "144" "147" "148" "166" "253" "256" "257" "275" "362" "365" "366" "384" "471" "474" "475" "493" "577")

LINES_CASE5=("3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10" "11" "12" "13" "14" "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" "20" "21" "22" "23" "24" "25" "26" "27" "28" "29" "30" "31" "32" "33" "34" "35")

ELEMENTS_5A=${#LINES_CASE5[@]}  
ELEMENTS_5B=${#POSITIONS_CASE5[@]}  

echo $ELEMENTS_5A $ELEMENTS_5B
###############################################################################
for i in 1 2
do
  read my_data[$i]
done < file02.dat

INFILE="TEST.inp"
TMPFILE=${INFILE}.tmp
OUTFILE=${my_data[1]}

cp ${INFILE} ${TMPFILE}1
echo $INFILE $TMPFILE $OUTFILE
###############################################################################
DATE
for (( j=0;j<$ELEMENTS_5A;j++)); do
    echo $j ${POSITIONS_CASE5[${j}]} ${LINES_CASE5[${j}]}
    B=${LINES_CASE5[${j}]}
    awk '{if(NR!=v1 ){print;next}system("head -v2  v3|tail -1")}' v1=${POSITIONS_CASE5[${j}]} v2=${B} v3=file02.dat ${TMPFILE}1 > ${TMPFILE}2
    mv ${TMPFILE}2 ${TMPFILE}1
done
mv ${TMPFILE}1 ${OUTFILE}
DATE

I get the rror message
Code:
head: invalid trailing option -- 2

Thanks,
Sarah
Last edited by f_o_555; 06-09-2011 at 03:42 AM..
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