On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:21:22PM +0200, Halid Faith wrote:
> Ok
> But I have another problem,
> I couldn't use any command interior of sed command. That's to say I have a
> script;
>
> yy="file5"
> for i in `cat file1`;
> do
> sed -e 's/old1/new1\ \'$i'/g' -e 's/old2/'cut -d, -f 1 ${yy}'/g' file2 >
> file3
> done
>
> When I run the script, I get an error, due to using cut command
>
yy=file5
for i in `cat file1` ; do
sed -e "s/old1/new1 $i/g" -e "s/old2/`cut -d, -f 1 ${yy}`/g" file2 > file3
done
I changed the single-quotes to double-quotes so that they can have
their variables interpreted. The problem with this loop is that, at
each iteration, file3 will be overwritten.
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