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# 1  
Old 07-06-2011
Issue with Sed command
I need to search for a keyword UTF-16 in a list of files if that keyword is found then i need to convert the file to UTF-8 format using iconv command.
After this i should substitute the UTF-16 keyword inside the file to UTF-8.
Please suggest how to do this in shell scripting.
# 2  
Old 07-06-2011
Code:
 
for i in `find . -type f | xagrs grep -l "UTF\-16"`
do
          # Do your iconv command
          # Do the sed command here
done

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# 3  
Old 07-06-2011
But with the use of Grep command i am not able to locate the keyword.
Please see the code i used according to your suggestion. Inside the directory i am searching i have files with txt,xml,edi,sgml extension files.
Code:
for i in `find . -type f | xagrs grep -l "UTF\-16"`
do
iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 $i > $i.old
sed 's/UTF-16/UTF-8/g' $i.old > $i
rm -f $i.old
done

I am getting the error xargs not found.

so please suggest something with the help of SED command if i can search for a keyword if it matches then proceed with conversion.
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-07-2011 at 03:20 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
# 4  
Old 07-06-2011
use $i instead of $fl

just do the below command on the file and make sure it captures something

Code:
 
grep "UTF\-16" filename

# 5  
Old 07-06-2011
Code:
for i in `find . -type f | xagrs grep -l "UTF\-16"`
do
iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 $i > $i.old
sed 's/UTF-16/UTF-8/g' $i.old > $i
rm -f $i.old
done

Quote:
I am getting the error xargs not found.
You may want to check the command you typed a bit closer. This may just have been a typo here, but if you made that typo on your attempt it would have said, "xagrs not found".
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# 6  
Old 07-07-2011
Thanks for the reply.
But grep "UTF\-16" filename is not fetching result in case of xml extension files it is working fine for text file.
Can you please help me in this.
# 7  
Old 07-07-2011
please post the sample content of the xml file (which has the UTF line)
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