Scripting help needed!

[Andrew Beal]

Hi,

I have hundreds of files that are exactly the same across multiple file systems. I need to add one word "receipt" one space after the occourance of the word "suptran" in each of these files.

I had an idea that sed might be able to do it for me, but I have only seen examples of this replacing text in a file.

I would appreciate it if someone could show me how to do this.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

[William Wong_2 · Accepted solution]

sed will work just fine for what you are trying to do. There is no reason when you do a search and replace that you can append text for the keyword. So you would do the following:

sed -e "s/receipt/receipt suptrain/g"

[Fragon]

Hi,Andrew
Just replace the word "suptran" with the string "suptran receipt", a demo script:
#!/usr/bin/sh
for filenm in /somedir
do
sed 's/suptran/suptran receipt/g' $filenm >$$.new
mv $$.new $filenm
done


-ux

[Andrew Beal]

Thankyou all for your help.

Both your suggestions worked perfectly, and I have created the script that I needed.

Cheers ;)

Andrew