12/19 Newbie question - I'm not a CS or engineering or even a tech major so
please don't jump all over this. What I'd like to do is replace all
occurrences of a word in an original file with a word in an infile,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^???
and output a new file. I want to iterate this process for all the
words in the infile list (the word to be replaced in the original file
remains the same). Greatly appreciate any suggestion on which
utility or script would be most suitable for this kind of job.
\- emacs, sed, perl can all do this. i dont understand precisely
what you are trying to do, however. --psb
\_ ED is the standard text editor.
\_Thanks for your guys help so far. What geordan summarized below
is what I'm trying to do
\_ I'm not on crack! Yay! ...Ohhhh -geordan
\_ So the original file is basically a template which contains
one or more words that needs to be replaced, and the infile
contains a list of words that will be substituted into the
template file? It's late and it's hard for me to word that.
Anyway the output is a bunch of files, one for each word in
the infile? I'd use perl. -geordan, who should just go to sleep
\_ in bash:
for i in `cat infile`;
do
cat ORIGINALFILE | \
perl -p -i -e 's/YOURWORD/$i/g' > \
ORIGINALFILE.$i;
done
[ reformatted - formatd ]
\_ i thought grep was the standard quickest solution for this sort of
thing but okay the above looks fine. or you can grep using the same
regexp 's/YOURWORD/$i/g' ? i think
\_ Uh you sure? I don't think this is doing quite what the OP was
asking but I admit I'm not sure what the OP really wanted either.
\_ I think it's along the lines of what he wants but I'm not
sure if the $i in the perl regexp will be properly escaped.
\_ Replace the single quotes with double quotes and it will
be interpolated. Also the -i flag doesn't really make
sense as you're not really modifying the file in-place.
-geordan |
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