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# 8  
Old 11-24-2014
how to work this out if situation remains same only difference is now cnf file is a XML one instead flat file name=value

Code:
1st_FILE.cnf
<FILE_NAME> [TST_FILE]</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_VALUE> [FILE_NAME]</FILE_VALUE>

o/p should be
Code:
1st_FILE.cnf.new
<FILE_NAME>1st_FILE.txt</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_VALUE>1st_FILE.txt</FILE_VALUE>

Only tag name are going to same across different cnf files only variable names are different.
<FILE_NAME> and <FILE_VALUE>
Last edited by manas_ranjan; 11-24-2014 at 09:58 AM..
# 9  
Old 11-24-2014
Did you try to run that script on your new file? If I do, this is the result:
Code:
<FILE_NAME> 1st_FILE.txt</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_VALUE> 1st_FILE.txt</FILE_VALUE>

# 10  
Old 11-25-2014
I tried, for me the o/p looks like

Code:
<FILE_NAME>[TST_FILE</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_VALUE>[FILE_NAME</FILE_VALUE>

--> removed only extreme right ], not even replacing it

---------- Post updated at 04:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:17 AM ----------

no worries, I was doing some little crappy mistake. Now I corrected it and working fine. thanks for your heads up.

---------- Post updated at 08:31 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:36 AM ----------

now if variable.txt changed then how to reflect the change in .cnf file.

Code:
variable.txt
TST_FILE=1st_FILE.txt
FILE_NAME={1st_FILE.txt==}
2ND_TST_FILE=2nd_FILE.txt
REASON=test

awk is not working as o/p now looks like
Code:
1st_FILE.cnf.new
<FILE_NAME>1st_FILE.txt</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_VALUE>{1st_FILE.txt</FILE_VALUE>

whereas it should look like
Code:
1st_FILE.cnf.new
<FILE_NAME>1st_FILE.txt</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_VALUE>{1st_FILE.txt==}</FILE_VALUE>

this is due to fact that FS is "="
# 11  
Old 11-25-2014
Yes it is - any ideas from your side?
# 12  
Old 11-25-2014
honestly I don't have any clue how to consider only one string as filed separator(=) when there are multiple same characters resides in the value.

so how can I instruct awk to only consider first character(=) as field separator later same characters can be considered as normal characters.

like
Code:
FILE_NAME={1st_FILE.txt==}

I tried
Code:
awk -F"{|}" '{print $2}'
awk -F"{|}|=" '{print $2}'

nothing doing well.....so stuck....
# 13  
Old 11-25-2014
Well, I don't think there's a general solution for all possible scenarios. In this special case, try
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR {X=$0; gsub($1 FS,"",X);R[$1]=X;  next} {for (r in R) gsub ("[[]"r"[]]", R[r]); print}' FS="=" file1 file2
<FILE_NAME> 1st_FILE.txt</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_VALUE> {1st_FILE.txt==}</FILE_VALUE>

This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
manas_ranjan
# 14  
Old 11-26-2014
thanks Rudi......it gives me more close to the result.
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