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# 15  
Old 11-06-2008
actually you also need to add a g to the end

sh-3.2$ echo /usr/bin/file | sed 's/\//\\\//'
\/usr/bin/file
sh-3.2$ echo /usr/bin/file | sed 's/\//\\\//g'
\/usr\/bin\/file
sh-3.2$
# 16  
Old 11-07-2008
Bug there
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I think you should change the colour!! :-)
Done Smilie

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you have extra spaces in your sed script after the = which may prevent it matching and may also affect the parameters being set correctly, depending on what the file is used for. Same when you add a new attribute to the file.
The space is required because in the file the attribute value pairs are kept as:
attrib1= value
attrib2= value

Still I would try out w/o the space and ll see if it works too.

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use a temporary file somewhere else, e.g. in /tmp, maybe using mktemp, or by adding the PID to make it unique, e.g. /tmp/htmp.$$, and remove it after use (if the users says no to "save changes").
I ll try to incorporate this.

thanks for the inputs Smilie

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You might try sed 's/\//\\\//'
Tried this but it did not work Smilie

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actually you also need to add a g to the end
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sed "s^$attrib= .*^$attrib= $value^g" $file > htmp.txt # Store result in htmp.txt
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I hope you are talking about this. Actually, I needed to have '\/' replacing '/' in $value. The variable wasn't being read appropriately. I am still unsure of the reason.

Thank You.

Regards
Last edited by hkansal; 11-07-2008 at 02:23 PM..
# 17  
Old 11-09-2008
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Originally Posted by hkansal
The space is required because in the file the attribute value pairs are kept as:
attrib1= value
attrib2= value
Still I would try out w/o the space and ll see if it works too.
I see, in that case your code is fine. Smilie
 
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