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Old 07-15-2011
Substituting a word by different word in variable
Hello Exprets,

I have a requirement where i have to subtitue a word with another word.
Code:
$eachline| sed 's/[^/]*$//'

a) $eachline will hold a value a path
for example
Code:
user/oracle/Test_admin/myfolder/bakup/part_bkptemp_part_bkp_repeated/list.txt

b)
Code:
$eachline| sed 's/[^/]*$//'

will give me the value like
Code:
user/oracle/Test_admin/myfolder/bakup/part_bkptemp_part_bkp_repeated/

removing the last word

my requirement is
Code:
some_unix_command($eachline| sed 's/[^/]*$//')

so that output will come as
Code:
user/oracle/Test_admin/myfolder/bakup_new/part_bkptemp_part_bkp_repeated/

here i am replacing backup by backup_new


Please let me know if i am not clear.

thanks you in advance
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-15-2011 at 04:10 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
# 2  
Old 07-15-2011
Try this:

Code:
 
echo $eachline | dirname | sed 's:/backup/:/backup_path/:'

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Old 07-15-2011
Code:
 
 sed  's/[^/]*$//' -e 's/backup/backup_new/' filename

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# 4  
Old 07-15-2011
Hello Experts,

what is wrong is in the below code

VAL=$eachline| sed 's/[^/]*$//'
$VAL sed -e 's/default/default_new/'
echo $VAL

and eachline=user/oracle/Test_admin/myfolder/bakup/part_bkptemp_part_bkp_repeated/list.txt

Please help gurus
Last edited by aks_1902; 07-15-2011 at 05:10 AM..
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