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# 1  
Old 10-30-2012
Problem editing with ed...
I have troubles passing variables to ed.
i'm trying to do something like this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

  User=`cat /etc/pmx.conf |grep User | cut -d "=" -f2`
  new=$1

ed -s /etc/pmx.conf <<< $'/User/s/$User/$new/g\nw'

:S
# 2  
Old 10-30-2012
Try replacing
Code:
$'/User/s/$User/$new/g\nw'

with
Code:
$"/User/s/$User/$new/g\nw"

.
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# 3  
Old 10-30-2012
that's exactly the problem....

i already try it, but ed doesn't recognize the command, even if use string instead of variables....
example:

Code:
$"/User/s/actualname/newname/g\nw"

ed only recognize this same command wit single quotation...
# 4  
Old 10-30-2012
sorry, its not a related answer..
am new to this forum.. donno where to go to start questioning..

I want to get the both .txt and .dat files

How to get this

Thanks in advance
satya
# 5  
Old 10-30-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by satyavinod
sorry, its not a related answer..
am new to this forum.. donno where to go to start questioning..

I want to get the both .txt and .dat files

How to get this

Thanks in advance
satya

maybe if you can explain yourself better, i could help you...
# 6  
Old 10-30-2012
I want to list out all the .txt files and .dat files with one unix command
How to get this two types at a time?
# 7  
Old 10-30-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by satyavinod
I want to list out all the .txt files and .dat files with one unix command
How to get this two types at a time?
if you want to list this kind of files in terminal do

Code:
ls *.txt *.dat

if you are doing some scripting you can do some thing like

Code:
#!/bin/bash


TXT=`ls *.txt`
DAT=`ls *.dat`


echo " TXT FILES

	$TXT
	"

echo " DAT FILES

	$DAT
	"
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