sed '/"Output file name"/s basename <samplefinaldata>' result2
. . .
As I said - using spaces as delimiters is not that easy. You don't have a closing delimiter in above. And, make sure the <samplefinaldata> doesn't contain spaces.
thanks for pointing out the missing single quote, I tried this now
Code:
$ sed '/."Output filename"/s basename <sampledatafinal>' result2
but still getting error sed: command garbled: /."Output filename"/s basename <sampledatafinal>
thanks..
What the above command seems to be trying to do is to select lines that contain the string "Output filename" that does NOT appear at the beginning of a line and on those selected lines change the first occurrence of the string basename with the string <sampledatafinal> with flags specified by the string result2, but most of those flags are invalid for a substitute command.
You are using a space as the field delimiter in the substitute command which should be of the form:
where delimiter is a single character other than backslash and newline. Since you are using a space character as your delimiter, the space between the closing single quote and the filename is being used as a delimiter and the filename is being treated as flags; not as the name of a file to be processed.
But, more importantly, your description of what you're trying to do keeps changing and there is confusion about what you are really trying to accomplish. First you wanted to change a directory name (enclosed in double quotes) to a string stored in a variable (dropping the quotes). Then you say you want to strip off all but the final component of a pathname, but the pathnames you have shown us include trailing slash characters. So, by definition, the final component name is .. (Why would a regular filename like /abc\khi/amv.txt/ or /abc\khi/amv.csv/ end with a /?)
Please show us:
a sample input file that contains the all of the transformations you're trying to make,
the code that sets the variable want to replace directory names found in your sample input file, and
a sample output file that shows the exact results you're trying to produce from the above specified inputs.
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
First and foremost thanks for looking into this .My requirement is to modify the following in an input file
1> change the directory in attribute Output file directory to a parameterized directory.
2> strip of any directory from the attribute output filename if the filename is prefixed with path , and just retain the filename along with extension
3> change the directory in attribute Log filename and keep the filename as is.
4> all of the above can be present multiple times in a file , and modification needs to be done for multiple files.
I was trying to achieve this step by step, hence you could have felt a change in requirement. I also realized that by mistake I have given a / in the filename , this is a mistake and there is no / after the filename. I apologize for the inconvenience /confusion caused by this.
my sample input data file looks like
Code:
<SESSION>
<SESSIONEXTENSION>
<CONNECTIONREFERENCE CNXREFNAME ="Connection" CONNECTIONNAME ="" CONNECTIONNUMBER ="1" CONNECTIONSUBTYPE ="" CONNECTIONTYPE ="" VARIABLE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="\data\targetfiledirectory\"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="\thirdparty\targetfiledirectory\"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="\data\targetfiledirectory\\target1.csv"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Log filename" VALUE ="/data/logfiledirectory\log1.log"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Command" VALUE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="File Reader Truncate String Null" VALUE ="NO"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Codepage Parameter" VALUE =""/>
</SESSIONEXTENSION>
<SESSIONEXTENSION>
<CONNECTIONREFERENCE CNXREFNAME ="Connection" CONNECTIONNAME ="" CONNECTIONNUMBER ="1" CONNECTIONSUBTYPE ="" CONNECTIONTYPE ="" VARIABLE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="/data/targetfiledirectory"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="/$Thirdparty"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="/$Thirdparty\target2"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Log filename" VALUE ="/data/logfiledirectory\log2.log"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Command" VALUE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="File Reader Truncate String Null" VALUE ="NO"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Codepage Parameter" VALUE =""/>
</SESSIONEXTENSION>
</SESSION>
this is my desired output
Code:
<SESSION>
<SESSIONEXTENSION>
<CONNECTIONREFERENCE CNXREFNAME ="Connection" CONNECTIONNAME ="" CONNECTIONNUMBER ="1" CONNECTIONSUBTYPE ="" CONNECTIONTYPE ="" VARIABLE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="$Outputfiledirectory\folder1"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="$Outputfiledirectory\folder1"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="target1.csv"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Log filename" VALUE ="$logfiledirectory\log1.log"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Command" VALUE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="File Reader Truncate String Null" VALUE ="NO"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Codepage Parameter" VALUE =""/>
</SESSIONEXTENSION>
<SESSIONEXTENSION>
<CONNECTIONREFERENCE CNXREFNAME ="Connection" CONNECTIONNAME ="" CONNECTIONNUMBER ="1" CONNECTIONSUBTYPE ="" CONNECTIONTYPE ="" VARIABLE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="$Outputfiledirectory\folder1"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output file directory" VALUE ="$Outputfiledirectory\folder1"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="/$Thirdparty.target2"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Log filename" VALUE ="$logfiledirectory\log2.log"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Command" VALUE =""/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="File Reader Truncate String Null" VALUE ="NO"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Codepage Parameter" VALUE =""/>
</SESSIONEXTENSION>
</SESSION>
thanks in advance.
Last edited by ajmani; 03-09-2015 at 11:45 PM..
Reason: correcting typo errors
1> the existing filepaths do have / and \ used interchangeably. I am not sure how the code referring to these paths is valid , but it is running well. however, now we want to standardize everything and use only \ in the paths.
2> we want to parameterize the path of output files partially. the dir structure is root\outputfiles\third_party . the folder1 that you see , is actually sub directory for one third party. though the third party will remain fixed for one file , but we don't want to create so many process variables (one for each third party)
3> the last 2 are typo errors
Quote:
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="target1.csv"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="/$Thirdparty.target2"/>
should have been
Quote:
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="target1.csv"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="/$Thirdparty\target2"/>
and output should be
Quote:
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="target1.csv"/>
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Output filename" VALUE ="target2"/>
and
Quote:
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Log filename" VALUE ="/data/logfiledirectory\log2.log"/>
should give output
Quote:
<ATTRIBUTE NAME ="Log filename" VALUE ="$logfiledire\log2.log"/>
. I have corrected this in my previous post as well. regret the inconvenience .
Hi all,
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