Shell Programming and Scripting

oic, thanks

Thank you guys, I finally got this by doing

name ='grep "localhost" $FILE | sed -n 's/.*:[0-9]*\/\(.*\)\">/\1/p'

but if I have multiple launchpoints in the html file, like this:

< a href ="http://localhost:5645/securitySettings">
< a href ="http://localhost:5645/security">
< a href ="http://localhost:5645/test">

Then, the name varible will include those three patterns( securitySettings, security, test), and I will get extra pattern when apply the name varible to the change_lines functions. Is there anyway I can get one pattern at a time? My code looks like this:

NAME=`grep "localhost" $FILE | sed -n 's/.*:[0-9]*\/\(.*\)\">/\1/p'`

echo ""
echo "NAME=$NAME"
echo ""

change_lines $FILE "localhost" "<a href= \"javascript:top.launchFacility('${NAME}')\">"

Thanks again^^

Code:

for str in $NAME
do
change_lines $FILE "localhost" "<a href= \"javascript:top.launchFacility('${str}')\">"
done

Got it, Thank everyone for your help.

You can do all the work without using grep :

Code:

name =`NAME=`sed -n 's/.*localhost:[0-9]*\/\(.*\)\">/\1/p'` $FILE

Jean-Pierre.