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# 1  
Old 11-05-2013
Change variable value
I have big XML which i want to change all VERSIONNUMBER equal to 1,in existing file values of VERSIONNUMBER will be different as below now i want to change all VERSIONNUMBER values qual to 1.Please help me which will convert versionnumber values.
Code:
<SHORTCUT  OBJECTSUBTYPE ="" OBJECTTYPE  VERSIONNUMBER ="2"/>
< OBJECTTYPE REPOSITORYNAME ="" VERSIONNUMBER ="4"/>
REFERENCETYPE ="LOCAL"  VERSIONNUMBER ="1"/>
REFERENCETYPE ="LOCAL"  VERSIONNUMBER ="2"/>
<CONFIG DESCRIPTION ="Default VERSIONNUMBER ="1">

OUTPUT:
Code:
 
<SHORTCUT  OBJECTSUBTYPE ="" OBJECTTYPE  VERSIONNUMBER ="1"/>
< OBJECTTYPE REPOSITORYNAME ="" VERSIONNUMBER ="1"/>
REFERENCETYPE ="LOCAL"  VERSIONNUMBER ="1"/>
REFERENCETYPE ="LOCAL"  VERSIONNUMBER ="1"/>
<CONFIG DESCRIPTION ="Default VERSIONNUMBER ="1">

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# 2  
Old 11-05-2013
So, you just want to change
Code:
VERSIONNUMBER ="2"

to
Code:
VERSIONNUMBER ="1"

throughout the entire file?
# 3  
Old 11-05-2013
Since no script was given, moved to dummies...
# 4  
Old 11-05-2013
yes,it should change complete file.in file it may be any value for versionnumber but command/script should change all values to one.
# 5  
Old 11-05-2013
Hello,

Could you please try the following code. Let's say change_number is the file which have input data.


Code:
awk -vs1="VERSIONNUMBER ="1"" '/VERSIONNUMBER =/ gsub(/VERSIONNUMBER ="2"/,s1)' change_number


Output will be as follows.

Code:
<SHORTCUT  OBJECTSUBTYPE ="" OBJECTTYPE  VERSIONNUMBER =1/>
< OBJECTTYPE REPOSITORYNAME ="" VERSIONNUMBER ="4"/>
REFERENCETYPE ="LOCAL"  VERSIONNUMBER ="1"/>
REFERENCETYPE ="LOCAL"  VERSIONNUMBER =1/>
<CONFIG DESCRIPTION ="Default VERSIONNUMBER ="1">


Thanks,
R. Singh
# 6  
Old 11-05-2013
Code:
$ sed 's/VERSIONNUMBER[ ]*="[^"]*"/VERSIONNUMBER ="1"/g' file.xml > newfile.xml

 
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