Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I need help in creating a script to do the following:

Please note the areas you wish to modify, and how you intend to modify them.

joeyg,

Sorry about that..

I identified the text in that I wish to change in red.

~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `ProCmdModelOpen.file`
~ Select `file_open` `Ph_list.Filelist` \
1 `6154547-110.prt`
~ Activate `file_open` `Ph_list.Filelist` \
1 `6154547-110.prt`
!Command ProCmdModelOpenExe was pushed from the software.
~ Timer `UI Desktop` `UI Desktop` \
`EmbedBrowserTimer`
~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1` \
1 `mb7`
~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`
~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `mb9#M#{fix_play`
~ Activate `mapkey_resume` `psh_continue`
~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `ActionMenuSaveStatus`
!%CILayer status saved for all changed layers.
~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `ProCmdWinCloseAsyn.file`

The text above is from Pro/Engineer CAD software trail file. It basically records mouse clicks and user inputs. I can run the trail file within Pro/Engineer and it will perform the commands identified. The text identified in red is a part name.

What I need the script to do is to repeatedly write the text above to a separate file using a loop that at ever cycle of the loop, the script will read an external text file that has a list part names. There are over 200 part names.

So as the script runs the text is written the same with the text in red is being replaced by the list of text within a separate text file.


Hope this explains what I am tring to accomplish.

Matt

Over the weekend I have a better way of explaining what I wish to do.

I need to have the script write to a file a series of text, with one word being changed based on reading an external list of words.

for example i would like to have the script write to a file the following:

"Hi my name is xxx"

Where xxx is a viable that changes by read a line of the external text file. The external text file will be as follows:

john
tom
steve

The script will then write the following:

Hi my name is john
Hi my name is tom
Hi my name is steve

I think that a script should be able to do this.
Any help you be greatly appreciated.

Matt

Is this what you are trying to do?

Code:

> cat file50
Hi, my name is 

> cat file51
Joe
Matt
Linda
Kerrin

> cat proc_50.sh
#! /usr/bin/bash
phrase=$(cat file50)
while read name
  do
  echo $phrase $name
done <file51

> proc_50.sh
Hi, my name is Joe
Hi, my name is Matt
Hi, my name is Linda
Hi, my name is Kerrin

Code:

while read nn
do
sed "s/xxx/$nn/" input_file >tmpfile
mv tmpfile input_file
done <namesfile

warning: there is no error checking and this snippet overwrites the data file each time through the loop, so if the sed fails your data file is borked.