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# 1  
Old 04-23-2008
How to copy some data from file A to file B
Hi,
I have data in file A.txt as
Code:
# define a 10
# define b 20
# define c  30

etc
I want to copy it in file B.txt as
Code:
{a,"a"};
{b,"b"};
{c,"c"};

using shell script.
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-23-2008 at 10:12 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 04-23-2008
Code:
awk '/^# define/ { printf("{%s,\"%s\"}\n", $3, $3) }' A.txt > B.txt

Jean-Pierre.
# 3  
Old 04-24-2008
Thanks, it is working fine.
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