Shell Programming and Scripting

I cannot use the character ~ as this might come in the data.....
Any other suggestions i tried all of the above none seems to work

Hi Era your solution worked fine with using sed "s/'/'\\
/g" file

however i am not sure how to use these two commands in the command

remoteName=ediweb$(date +%m%d%H%M%S).$(cat $localFromDir/$currentFile | tr -d '\012' | tr \' '\012' | grep ^UNB | head -1 | cut -d+ -f6)

can you please let me know how can i replace your command with the one tr \' '\012' mentioned in my above command

thanks

karan

If I grok the above command soup correctly, you want

Code:

remoteName=ediweb$(date +%m%d%H%M%S).$(tr -d '\012' <$localFromDir/$currentFile | sed "s/'/'\\
/g" | grep ^UNB | head -1 | cut -d+ -f6)

That's still pretty useless, as you could replace the whole sed | grep | head mess with a single sed script.

Code:

remoteName=ediweb$(date +%m%d%H%M%S).$(tr -d '\012' <$localFromDir/$currentFile |
    sed -n "s/\(.*'\)\?\([^']*UNB[^']*'\).*/\1/p;T;q" | cut -d+ -f6)

The cut could probably also be added to the sed script, and the tr might be unnecessary, depending on the input file format.

Can you explain me briefly what exactly the whole sed command that you have written is doing???

thanks

Karan

i tried using the above it didnt run and gave me an error:-

sed:0602-403 then whole command is not a recognised function