This is off topic, but I'm hoping your sharp eyes will see what I am
obviously missing.
I'm writing a ksh script which I want to give 3 variables and read them
from standard input. To do this, I'm using sed. I want sed to
change every instance of DATE to the current date in a given file
and rename the file to a different directory.
Here's my script:
#!/bin/ksh
sed 's/DATE/"$1"/g' "$2" > "$3"
exit 0;
Here's the format of my input file:
`date +%m-%d-%Y'
FILE.05_24_2001.0529.CSV
/path/to/newfile/FILE.`date+%H.%m_%d_%Y.%H%M`.CSV
And here's how I'm invoking it:
script < input.txt
The output is:
Can't Open
I've tried
script < "input.txt"
I've tried not quoting $2 and $3, and it just echos input.txt to the
screen.
I know this is something simple, but I'm stuck. What am I doing wrong?
Nancy
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