On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, Halid Faith wrote:
>I have a file named file1 which contains some values.
>I want to replace some strings into it, so I use sed command but I get an
>error.
>
>sed "s#oldstring#`cut -d, -f3 file2`#" file1
>
>sed: 1: "s/yenidomain2/f0b2875d- ...": unterminated substitute in regular
>expression
>
>also I get an error with awk command into sed;
>sed "s#oldstring#`awk -F, '{print$3}' file2`#" file1
>sed: 1: "s#yenidomain2#f0b2875d- ...": unterminated substitute in regular
>expression
The ``cut -d...` may well be biting you with multiple lines or
extra line feeds. You might see the problem by prefixing your
command with ``echo'' to see what it's actually doing.
echo sed "s#oldstring#`cut -d, -f3 file2`#" file1
I usually do more complex substitutions with short python or perl
scripts as (a) they use a common regular expression syntax, and
(b) I find the code cleaner (at least the python :-)
Bill
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