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Old 08-26-2013
Replace a string with each line from another file repeatedly

I don't know if it's been asked before but seems i gave up seeking.

i have 2 files :
file1.txt
Code:
Monday XXXX
Tuesday XXXX
XXXX Wednesday
Thursday XXXX

XXXX is in every lines of file1.txt and i want to replace them with each line in file2.txt:
Code:
home
school
cinema

so output file is:
Code:
Monday home
Tuesday home
home Wednesday
Thursday home
Monday school
Tuesday school
school Wednesday
Thursday school
Monday cinema
Tuesday cinema
cinema Wednesday
Thursday cinema

I got the file2.txt has many lines so i can't do it by hand. So, i need a solution for it.
Thanks for your time.
# 2  
Old 08-26-2013
Code:
while read LINE
do
 sed 's/XXXX/'$LINE'/' file1.txt >>file3.txt
done<file2.txt
cat file3.txt

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# 3  
Old 08-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by krishmaths
Code:
while read LINE
do
 sed 's/XXXX/'$LINE'/' file1.txt >>file3.txt
done<file2.txt
cat file3.txt

thanks for quickly help.but i got :
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
# 4  
Old 08-26-2013
Can you include set -x at the beginning of the script and execute? Or execute using sh -x scriptname.sh
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# 5  
Old 08-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by krishmaths
Can you include set -x at the beginning of the script and execute? Or execute using sh -x scriptname.sh
sorry, i don't know well :
Code:
sed 's/XXXX/'$LINE'/' file1.txt >>file3.txt
set -x done file2.txt
cat file3.txt

and i get file3:
Code:
Monday
Tuesday
     Wednesday
Thursday

Do i miss sth?

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-26-2013 at 07:43 AM.. Reason: Adding code tags
# 6  
Old 08-26-2013
Do you use bash or ksh?
Do you have the first line of the script as #!/bin/bash based on the shell?
Can you paste the entire script for us to debug?
# 7  
Old 08-26-2013
I do suggest that you post the complete script.
I do not see the hash bang #!/bin/sh
And you have added set -x before done, not in start of script
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