topic Re: Replacing text with multiple lines in Operating System - HP-UX

Replacing text with multiple lines

Quin Hammes — Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:46:58 GMT

Full 10 points for who ever solves this one for me.....

I have a text config file.
I want to replace any instance of the word SET with
"SET
TROUBLETICKET".

I tried sed and awk but they get confused with the carriage return between set and troubleticket which is required. Any ideas? I need to make this an automatic process because there is going to be around 800 hundred instances of SET in this file and we need to do this translation about once a month. Any help would be appreciated (along with ten points). Thank you.

Re: Replacing text with multiple lines

Rodney Hills — Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:25:08 GMT

You can use sed as follows-
sed -e 's/SET/SET\^MTROUBLETICKET/'

Following the \, press ctl-v followed by the return-key.

Re: Replacing text with multiple lines

Quin Hammes — Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:31:38 GMT

I think I did it exaclt the way you said but it only spitted back TROUBLETICKET not
SET
TROUBLETICKET

any ideas?

Re: Replacing text with multiple lines

Quin Hammes — Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:34:35 GMT

I figured it out, I did a "\" then a control M right away and it seemed to work. Thanks for the help.

Re: Replacing text with multiple lines

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:39:12 GMT

Here is a little script that should do what you need to do. It is probably not the most efficient, but it works.
*******************************start script
#!/bin/sh

inputfile="/tmp/pww/file"
outputfile="/tmp/pww/file1"

outputfile1="/tmp/pww/file2"

cat $inputfile | awk '{ gsub(/SET/,"SET TROUBLE TICKET" ); print }' > $outputfile
cat $outputfile | awk '
{
if ( $1 != "SET" )
{ print $0 }
else
{ split($0,word," "); print word[1];print word[2],word[3] }
}' > $outputfile1

******************************end script

you could even do something at the end of the script to move the the output file to the inputfile name.

I hope the script makes sense. It is also attached to this reply.