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Old 12-23-2008
Relacing the shebang line of a file

Can any one tell me how to replace a shebang line of a file using sed?

Eg: If a file contains the following shebang line

#!C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby

I would like to replace it with

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

The shebang line of the file can be obtained from the command

cat <filename> | head -1

and the replacing tag from the command "which ruby", since the shebang line contains many special characters, i guess the sed command is not working properly. Can anyone help me to replace the shebang line of a file using the
output of "which ruby"

Last edited by linuxnewbe; 12-23-2008 at 12:09 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-23-2008
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
echo '#!C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby' | sed "s%#\!C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby%#\!$(which ruby)%"


Last edited by vgersh99; 12-23-2008 at 12:32 PM..
# 3  
Old 12-24-2008
Thank you for your prompt reply Smilie and it helps me to proceed further. But still I am missing some thing.

Output of the command " sed "s%$(head -1 file1.txt)%#\!$(which ruby)%g" file1.txt " is displaying the modified shebang line along with the contents of the file on the console. But if I pass the o/p using tee operator to the same file the whole contents of the file has been lost.

command:

sed "s%$(head -1 file1.txt)%#\!$(which ruby)%g" file1.txt | tee file1.txt

So I have found a work around to pass the o/p of the command "sed "s%$(head -1 file1.txt)%#\!$(which ruby)%g" file1.txt" to a temparary file and then copying the contents of the temparary file to the original.

command:

sed "s%$(head -1 file1.txt)%#\!$(which ruby)%g" file1.txt | tee file2.txt
cp file2.txt file1.txt

Is there any way I can accomplish the whole task from a single sed command?
# 4  
Old 12-25-2008
Code:
{ rm file1.txt; sed "s%$(head -1 file1.txt)%#\!$(which ruby)%g" > file1.txt; } < file1.txt

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