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Old 06-05-2014
Search and replace with awk
Hi Shell Tigers,
I am trying to acheive search and replace strings within a setup file.
Help much appreciated.

Code:
  test.setup
    ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product/11.0.0/home01
    PATH1=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg1
    PATH2=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg2/bin
    PATH3=/perm_loc/3222/FTP/cfg3/bin

So far I have tried
Code:
  cat test.setup | awk -F= -v a="MonsterHouse.Scully" -v b="Mickey/Minie" '{if ($1 == "ORACLE_HOME" ) printf "ORACLE_HOME=%s\n",a;
  else if ( $2 ~ /perm_loc/ ) print (gsub("perm_loc",b)); else print;}'

I get the following results
test.setup
Code:
 ORACLE_HOME=MonsterHouse.Scully 
 1
 1 
 1

Expected :
test.setup
Code:
    test.setup
    ORACLE_HOME=MonsterHouse.Scully
    PATH1=/Mickey/Minie/3222/FTP/cfg1
    PATH2=/Mickey/Minie/3222/FTP/cfg2/bin
    PATH3=/Mickey/Minie/3222/FTP/cfg3/bin

# 2  
Old 06-05-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by jville
Hi Shell Tigers,
I am trying to acheive search and replace strings within a setup file.
Help much appreciated.
....
So far I have tried
Code:
  cat test.setup | awk -F= -v a="MonsterHouse.Scully" -v b="Mickey/Minie" '{if ($1 == "ORACLE_HOME" ) printf "ORACLE_HOME=%s\n",a;
  else if ( $2 ~ /perm_loc/ ) print (gsub("perm_loc",b)); else print;}'

I get the following results
test.setup
Code:
 ORACLE_HOME=MonsterHouse.Scully 
 1
 1 
 1

You are almost done

Code:
print (gsub("perm_loc",b));

its prints the count of substitution



Code:
awk -F'=' -v a="MonsterHouse.Scully" \
          -v b="Mickey/Minie"  '{
                                  if($1 == "ORACLE_HOME" )
                                       printf "ORACLE_HOME=%s\n",a 
                             else if ( $2 ~ /perm_loc/ ){
                                       gsub("perm_loc",b);
                                       print
                                }
                                else
                                       print                     
                                }' file

Last edited by Akshay Hegde; 06-05-2014 at 11:18 AM..
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jville
# 3  
Old 06-05-2014
Try:
Code:
awk -F= -v a="MonsterHouse.Scully" -v b="Mickey/Minie" '{if ($1 ~ "ORACLE_HOME" ) printf "ORACLE_HOME=%s\n",a;
  else if ( $2 ~ /perm_loc/ ) {gsub("perm_loc",b); print} else print}' file

This User Gave Thanks to Scrutinizer For This Post:
jville
# 4  
Old 06-05-2014
Worked ! Thank-you Tigers.
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