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# 1  
Old 02-06-2006
cp & sed error
Hi,
Below is a small piece of my Korn shell script - what i am trying to do is substitute all occurrences of the word given by the ${src} parameter with the word given by the ${dest} parameter in that particular textfile. But i get the errors below...

Code:
for i in `ls $ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/`
do
  echo "replacing ${src} to ${dest} for $i"
  cp $i $ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i_backup
  cat $i_backup | sed -e "/s/${src}/${dest}/g" > $i
  rm -f $i_backup
done


cp: cannot access init.ora.162006124556
sed: command garbled: /s/db1/db2/g

Can someone let me know what's wrong with my code, and help me solve the problem?
Thanks!
# 2  
Old 02-06-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by n8575
Code:
for i in `ls $ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/`
do
  echo "replacing ${src} to ${dest} for $i"
  cp $i $ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i_backup
  cat $i_backup | sed -e "/s/${src}/${dest}/g" > $i
  rm -f $i_backup
done


cp: cannot access init.ora.162006124556
sed: command garbled: /s/db1/db2/g

Can someone let me know what's wrong with my code, and help me solve the problem?
Thanks!
Remove the / before "/s/..." and enclose all the names within " "

Try this.

Code:
for i in `ls -1 $ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/`
do
  echo "replacing ${src} to ${dest} for $i"
  cp "$i" "$ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i_backup"
  sed -e "s/${src}/${dest}/g"  "$i_backup" > $i
  rm -f "$i_backup"
done

# 3  
Old 02-06-2006
I still get the same cp error, and another error which i have no idea what it is referring to...

cp: cannot access init.ora.162006131752
First RE may not be null

The sed command still didnt work - the words weren't substituted.
Help! Smilie
# 4  
Old 02-06-2006
This should work. You were looking for $ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i elsewhere.

Code:
for i in `ls -1 $ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/`
do
  echo "replacing ${src} to ${dest} for $i"
  sed -e "s/${src}/${dest}/g"  "$ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i" > "$ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i_new"
  mv "$ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i_new" "$ORACLE_BASE/admin/${dest}/pfile/$i"
done

Last edited by vino; 02-06-2006 at 10:54 AM.. Reason: Removed an extra command.
# 5  
Old 02-06-2006
It still didnt work Smilie I get a whole lot of the same type of error as shown below...

replacing db1 to db2 for total
./createdb.sh[135]: /u01/app/oracle/admin//pfile/: cannot create
mv: cannot access /u01/app/oracle/admin//pfile/

by the way, why use ls -l in the for loop, instead of just ls?
# 6  
Old 02-06-2006
Code:
sed -e "s#${src}#${dest}#g"  "$i_backup" > $i

# 7  
Old 02-06-2006
Also didnt work Smilie
I even tried to do just the sed command, without the cp or mv commands coz those were giving errors, but the sed still didnt do it's job :S
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