xsltproc is meant to be a way of transforming xml data I believe. However I am not au fait enough with it or your data to say if it would have been useful here.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Dave G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok > > that makes sense, I misread the man page (more than once!) > > that's what happens with late-night "quick jobs" > > thanks both for your help > > must go > > cheers ...dave > > 2008/8/8 Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:58 +1200, Dave G wrote: >> > sed "s/WPT001/$WPTN/" $LOC/loc2test.gpx > $LOC/loc2test_sed.gpx >> > >> > gave the right result, however one weird thing is that even with >> > the ../g" global switch it >> > changed all the "WPT001"'s rather than just the first instance ? >> >> sed works on each line of its input. /g merely means to allow matching >> multiple times _on one line_ >> >> you may need to look for a tool that doesn't treat each line >> independently, although I would highly recommend considering an >> alternative approach such as that suggested by Andrew. >> >> -Jasper >> > >
