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Old 08-16-2011
Issue with substitution using sed
Hi all
Having issue with substitution using sed
Trying to assign the absolute path of the file to the variable 'floc' returned by the find command
Code:
floc=`find / -name $fname`

eg cat $floc '/root/samplecheck/myfile'
I want to replace '/' with '->' in the 'floc' i am using the below sed command
Code:
sed  -n 's/ \/ / \- /g' $floc

but i am not getting the desired output Smilie
suggestion to rectify the issue
Last edited by zaxxon; 08-17-2011 at 07:18 AM.. Reason: code tags
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Old 08-16-2011
Code:
suggestion to rectify the issue

Read a tutorial about sed. Your sed command is meaningless. Here is a good one: Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial
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Old 08-16-2011
Code:
$> echo $floc
/root/samplecheck/myfile
$> echo $floc| sed 's/\//->/g'
->root->samplecheck->myfile

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