Replacement in certain tags of a file from another file

Tags

beginners

Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Replacement in certain tags of a file from another file

02-13-2012

Registered User

53, 0

Join Date: Jan 2011

Last Activity: 4 May 2015, 5:02 AM EDT

Posts: 53

Thanks Given: 6

Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

Replacement in certain tags of a file from another file

Here is the situation. I have a number of files with certain tags (TAG files):

Code:

TAG1:
TAG2:
TAG3:
TAG4:
TAG5:
TAG6:
TAG7:

and another file with the following format:

Code:

//name1
Jason
//name2
Mariam
//name3
Andrew
//name4
Catherine

etc.

I want "name1" to be placed after TAG3: and "Jason" after TAG7:

I want this to for all names, each name has its own TAG file. In my case the output would be like this:

Code:

TAG1:
TAG2:
TAG3: name1
TAG4:
TAG5:
TAG6:
TAG7: Jason

Code:

TAG1:
TAG2:
TAG3: name2
TAG4:
TAG5:
TAG6:
TAG7: Mariam

Code:

TAG1:
TAG2:
TAG3: name3
TAG4:
TAG5:
TAG6:
TAG7: Andrew

etc.

FelipeAd

View Public Profile for FelipeAd

Find all posts by FelipeAd

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replacement Query in a file

Hi All, Please can you help me with below, i have a file with records ( eg of one record below) Record R1 - The field separtaor between records is | (Pipe) |123|Mukesh\r\n|Vivek"sharma| Now i want to do the following for each record in the file if there is any field ( lets say field...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replacement of variable by their content in a file

Dear all, I have a "SQL request" in a file: that request include different "host variable" and I would like to substitute the different "host variable" by their respective content before executing the request. For example: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ cat dae2.txt DELETE FROM ...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sed: how to use file contents in replacement string

I want to replace a string by contents of file. I am trying the following sed command: cat sample | sed "s^<enter description here>^`cat details`^" But it is not working. a=`cat details` and using $a will not help since it will affect the whitespaces. What am I missing in the above sed...

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

File size changes on replacement of certain numbers

I had a doubt regarding how the file size changes and needed some advice on the same So I have this file say abc.txt.. Size was 10000. Now inside the file when I go and I replace all the number 7 numerals with number 4 file size changed to 9984. Any idea why and how ??

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed replacement in file when line is in a variable

Hi, I have a file where I want to replace the 15th field separated by comma, only on specific lines matching lots of different conditions. I have managed to read the file line by line, within the loop my line is held in a variable called $line I assume this will be using sed (maybe...

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

String replacement when particular pattern matches in a file

I have a file file123.xml which looks like this xmlEntry="username"="josh" <property="never_back_down"> phone="<178652>" apn=property:address="wonderland" xmlEntry="username"="jessica" <property="never_back_down"> phone="<178653>" apn=property:address="wonderland"...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

File Replacement Help

Hi all, I have two files, one is a base file and the other is a dependency file. I need to replace a section in the base file (File A) with a section from the dependency file (File B), for example: File A: ... <TagName> <TagA>MyBaseFile</TagA> <TagB>MyBaseFileID</TagB> </TagName>...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed replacement in unicode file

Hi there, I have a file generated by a windows registry (it's unicode) and can't get to do some replacements on it. I want to join lines that end with backslash with the next one. santiago@ks354286:~$ cat win.reg ��Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replacement of text in a file

Hi , I have some data in my file(properties.txt) like this. # agent.properties agent.dmp.Location= agent.name= I need to relpace the agent.dmp.location with agent.dmp.Location = /opt/VRTS/vxvm I am using the follwing to replace the string AGENT_NAME=snmp...

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

finding a numeric value in a file for replacement

thank u optimus,but one more dout..it might be silly..how do i get the value in the file that should be replaced..while running the script..its an numeric value..that i want to change.. when i used sed for replacement ie. sed s/521000/100/p with print option it is printing...

UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers