How to update a file content from a KShell script

[Admin.SIF]

I have a parameter file which contains severail variables declaration. I want to build a ksh script which read that file, find the proper variable I look for and change is value.
How can I do that ?
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Example:
(content of param.var)
LOCAL_VAR1="ABC"
LOCAL_VAR2="TOTO"
LOCAL_VAR3=25

-> Must change LOCAL_VAR2 to "TEST" ?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Try this:

# cat master_script | sed s/LOCAL_VAR2=\"TOTO\"/LOCAL_VAR2=\"XXXX\"/g > new_script

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Try this:

# cat master_script |sed /LOCAL_VAR2=\"TOTO\"/LOCAL_VAR2=\"XXXX\"/g > new_script

Note the backslashes to escape the quote marks in your master_script.

...JRF...

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

you could also do this:

awk -F= '{
if($1 == "LOCAL_VAR2")
print $1 "=" "\"TEST\""
else
print $1 "=" $2
}' param.var >param_tmp.var
mv param_tmp.var param.var

For multiple choices add some else if (...)
statements before the else statement.

Regards

Andrew

[Alan Riggs]

Just to be different:

IFSSAVE="$IFS"
IFS="="
while read VAR VALUE
do
if [ "$VAR" = "{variable you want to change"} ]
then
echo "$VAR={new value}" >> tmpfile
else
echo "$VAR=$VALUE" >> tmpfile
fi
done < file
mv tmpfile file

Now, the sed really makes more sense, and sed is a great thing to become familiar with, but it is sometimes easier to modify/maintain a script if you are more familiar with exactly what it does, so I figured I would give you this alternative.

But play around with sed, too. It will be worth your time.

[Alan Riggs]

Just to be different:

IFSSAVE="$IFS"
IFS="="
while read VAR VALUE
do
if [ "$VAR" = "{variable you want to change"} ]
then
echo "$VAR={new value}" >> tmpfile
else
echo "$VAR=$VALUE" >> tmpfile
fi
done < file
mv tmpfile file

Now, the sed really makes more sense, and sed is a great thing to become familiar with, but it is sometimes easier to modify/maintain a script if you are more familiar with exactly what it does, so I figured I would give you this alternative.

But play around with sed, too. It will be worth your time.

[Dave Walley]

Hi.

I would use

cat param.var|sed 'LOCAL_VAR2/TEST' >newparam

I hope this helps

Dave

[Tommy Palo]

Yet another way to do it, with the advantage that you don't need any temporary files.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# Change paramfile eg. $HOME/params
#
cat - << EOF | ed -s $HOME/params
1,$ s:LOCAL_VAR2="TOTO":LOCAL_VAR2="TEST":
w
q
EOF

Could of course be made more generic, by passing name of parameter file and which parameter to change as arguments.

[John Palmer]

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve here. If you want to edit the param file from within a script then you can use 'ex' (a command line version of vi). Example:-

#!/usr/bin/sh
ex param.var </LOCAL_VAR2
s/TOTO/TEST/
wq!
EOD

If you want to get the values for your variables into the script then you can just 'dot' the file then maybe reassign any variables that you want to override. For example:-

. param.var
LOCALVAR2=TEST

If you are trying to do anything else, please supply some more details.

[Admin.SIF]

Finaly, I use the sed command and it works correctly.

Thanks for your help.