sed

[admin]

How about the DSExecute subroutine?




(is that less than 25 words?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Walker [SMTP:philw@gnosys.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:45 AM
To: informix-datastage@oliver.com
Subject: sed

Sort of related.

I want to run a sed command to replace a tag e.g. HOMEDIRECTORY with a value which contains "/" how do I do it - in 25 words or less. For example

sed -e "s/HOMEDIRECTORY/${HOME}/g" -f file.txt > file.txt.1

Does anyone know how to do this?




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[admin]

Hi Phil,

You need to change the "/" delimiter in the sed command

eg:

sed -e "s~HOMEDIR~${HOME}~g" file.txt

"~" seems to be a good substitute character for "/" in this case.

N.B.: drop the -f option, since this will make sed think that file.txt contains editing commands.



Regards,

Anthony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Barham [SMTP:David.Barham@anglocoal.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:07 PM
> To: informix-datastage@oliver.com
> Subject: RE: sed
>
> How about the DSExecute subroutine?
>
>
>
>
> (is that less than 25 words?)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Walker [SMTP:philw@gnosys.co.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:45 AM
> To: informix-datastage@oliver.com
> Subject: sed
>
> Sort of related.
>
> I want to run a sed command to replace a tag e.g. HOMEDIRECTORY with a
> value which contains "/" how do I do it - in 25 words or less. For
> example
>
> sed -e "s/HOMEDIRECTORY/${HOME}/g" -f file.txt > file.txt.1
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
>
>
>
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[admin]

Can you "escape" the slash (for example / (backslash slash) in the sed script? For example: sed -e "s//usr/Ardent/uv/${HOME}/g" file.txt > file.txt.1 (Dont use the -f option unless file.txt contains editing commands.)

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> From: Phil Walker[SMTP:philw@gnosys.co.nz]
> Reply To: informix-datastage@oliver.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2000 21:45
> To: informix-datastage@oliver.com
> Subject: sed
>
> Sort of related.
>
> I want to run a sed command to replace a tag e.g. HOMEDIRECTORY with a
> value which contains "/" how do I do it - in 25 words or less. For
> example
>
> sed -e "s/HOMEDIRECTORY/${HOME}/g" -f file.txt > file.txt.1
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
>
>
>