sed command not working for me to change text in a file
UNIX gurus
I need your help with the following (The server is an AIX box).
I have a text file with the following information:
Code:
********************************************************
SOME LINES
case
:WORD1
SOME LINES
:WORD2
SOME LINES
:WORD3
SOME LINES
esac
SOME LINES
*********************************************************
I need to change the lines starting with : and replace them with *). For example:
Code:
********************************************************
SOME LINES
case
WORD1*)
SOME LINES
WORD2*)
SOME LINES
WORD3*)
SOME LINES
esac
SOME LINES
*********************************************************
I wrote the following code to get this done, but it's not working, only the last line gets changed, From :WORD3 to WORD3*), the other two (:WORD1 and :WORD2) don't get changed.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# ======================================
TWSDATADIR=/opt/apps/TWA/TWS/TWS
TWSDATAFILE=$TWSDATADIR/martin.ABEND
TWSTARGETFILE1=$TWSDATADIR/martin1.ABEND
TWSTARGETFILE2=$TWSDATADIR/martin2.ABEND
TWSTARGETFILE3=$TWSDATADIR/martin3.ABEND
# List the bad lines
# ===========================
sed -e '1,/case $JOBNAME/d' -e '/esac/,$d' $TWSDATAFILE |grep : > $TWSTARGETFILE1
BADLINES=`cat $TWSTARGETFILE1`
for line in $BADLINES
do
TEXT="*)"
good_line_temp=`echo $line | cut -d: -f2`
echo "Bad line: $line"
good_line=`echo "$good_line_temp$TEXT"`
echo "Good line: $good_line"
echo $good_line >> $TWSTARGETFILE3
# sed "s/$line/$good_line/g" $TWSDATAFILE
sed -e "s/${line}/${good_line}/g" $TWSDATAFILE > $TWSTARGETFILE2
done
*********************************************************
I believe the last "sed" command is missing something. Up to that point, the script works fine as shown below. However, when I change on the target file ($TWSTARGETFILE2) as explained above only the last occurrence (:WORD3) gets changed (to WORD3*), but not the 1st (:WORD1) or 2nd (:WORD) occurrence.
Code:
Bad line: :WORD1
Good line: WORD1*)
Bad line: :WORD2
Good line: WORD2*)
Bad line: :WORD3
Good line: WORD3*)
Thanks for your help on this.
Martin.
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