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# 8  
Old 04-14-2008
This is what happened when I tried running the command:

unix$ nl file1 |
> sed 's/^[ ]*\([1-9][0-9]*\)[ ]*\([^ ].*\)/s%\\$\1%\2%g/' |
> sed -f - file2
sed: -: No such file or directory
# 9  
Old 04-14-2008
Really, your sed doesn't accept a script on standard input? Then you'll need to save it to a temporary file, and use that.

Code:
blah blah >/tmp/fix.sed
sed -f /tmp/fix.sed file2

# 10  
Old 04-14-2008
cool, got it! One last thing and this might not even matter since it's HTML but I guess it depends on what kind of space this is but the output seemed to have added a tab right before replacing a variable so my output looks like:

<html><head><title>welcome to [tab here]abc</title></head>
<body>
<p>Please visit [tab here]blahthe best web site evah [tab here]moretest
[tab here]test
</body></html>


Any way to remove that?

sorry tab wasn't showing up in post
# 11  
Old 04-14-2008
Dunno where that would come from, did you copy+paste the code correctly?

(Maybe I put in a tab too many somewhere, too. If you don't have tabs in your input then just use plain ole spaces throughout.)
# 12  
Old 04-14-2008
not a problem, i can figure that out. thanks so much for the help! you rock!
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