by Martin McWhorte » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00
I am editing a shell script that containes a vairable $MACHINE. Machine
equals something like beck.router
I need to sed s/\\./,/g the $MACHINE variable to change it to
beck,router
How do I do this? I seem lost. I know in perl is would be $MACHINE =~
s/\\./,/g but how does this translate to shell script?
Thanks,
Martin
by Matthew Land » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00
> Hello,
> I am editing a shell script that containes a vairable $MACHINE. Machine
> equals something like
> I need to sed s/\\./,/g the $MACHINE variable to change it to
> beck,router
> How do I do this? I seem lost. I know in perl is would be $MACHINE =~
> s/\\./,/g but how does this translate to shell script?
> Thanks,
> Martin
MACHINE=$(echo $MACHINE |tr '.' ',')
or
MACHINE=$(echo $MACHINE | sed 's/\./,/g')
- Matt
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by Charles Dem » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00
In a bourne type shell this should work:Quote:>Hello,
>I am editing a shell script that containes a vairable $MACHINE. Machine
>equals something like beck.router
>I need to sed s/\\./,/g the $MACHINE variable to change it to
>beck,router
>How do I do this? I seem lost. I know in perl is would be $MACHINE =~
>s/\\./,/g but how does this translate to shell script?
>Thanks,
>Martin
MACHINE=`echo "$MACHINE" | sed 's/\\./,/g'`
This is usually explained on the man page for your shell
man sh
or whatever shell you're using. Note that csh and tcsh are
different than bourne type shells, and are not generally
recommended for scripts.
Chuck Demas
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by Christoph Lang » Thu, 04 May 2000 04:00:00
Within '...', there's no need to quote the backslash as \\.
Christoph
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by bmar.. » Fri, 05 May 2000 04:00:00
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1. sed problem: using sed in a shell script
I am having a very odd problem. The following command is not working
in my shell script:
#!/bin/sh
# snip code #
sed "$start_line,$end_line""d" $1.tmp > $1.new
# END snip #
But, it _does_ work if i enter it at the command-line:
[eve]$ set start_line=2 ; set end_line=4 ; \
sed "$start_line,$end_line""d" tokenize_line.c.tmp > tokenize_line.c.new
This works on the command-line, but not in the script as well:
[eve]$ set start_line=2 ; set end_line=4 ; \
sed "$start_line,${end_line}d" tokenize_line.c.tmp > tokenize_line.c.new
then odd part is that if i set the variables in the script manually,
everything works ok:
#!/bin/sh
# snip #
startline=2; endline=4
sed "$start_line,$end_line""d" $1.tmp > $1.new
# END snip #
so i figured.. there must be space or something before/after the
numbers in the variables. but that is disproved, because i tried this
in the original shell script right before calling sed:
#snip
echo "cutting lines foo${start_line}foo to foo${end_line}foo"
#end snip
and that outputs this (no spaces!):
$
cutting lines foo2foo to foo4foo
so basically, i need to cut line ranges from files, and sed is the
only way i know how to do it, and it dont work (when interpolating
variables) in the shell script. any ideas here? (oh.. my shell is
tcsh)
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