In the last episode (Jun 17), chloe K said:
> I have a file. list.txt (two columns)
>
> column1 column2
> name address
>
> I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg:
>
> Dear: Chloe
> Address: CA
>
> Can I use this
>
> for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt
Try:
cat list.txt | while read name address ; do
sed -e "s/Chloe/$name/ ; s/CA/$address/" < letter.txt > letter.$name.txt
done
You need the "while read" part so that you loop once per line. Your code
would have looped once per word in the input file. You also need
double-quotes on your sed line because $variable expansion isn't done inside
single-quotes. If your names have spaces in them, consider swapping the
name and address in your input file, since "read" splits on spaces and
assigns the remainder of the line to the last variable listed.
--
Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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