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i have a file with some data and i need replace a perticular value with some other value from another another file
req:

Code:

file1.txt
abc,idle.txt,1234

file2.txt
5678

now the requirement is need to replace the "idle.txt" is with "mike_5678" here 5678 from file2.txt...
file2.txt contains only one value but not always 5678. and mike is always constant.
expected result is..

Code:

file1.txt
abc,mike_5678,1234
¨

thanks in advance..

Siva Santosh

Moderator's Comments:

Please view this code tag video for how to use code tags when posting code and data.

Code:

read repl < file2.txt; sed 's/idle\.txt/mike_'"$repl"'/g' file1.txt

Thanks a lot...

its working fine...