Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:29:46 +0100 From: Tino Engel <elrap@web.de> To: Halid Faith <maslak@ihlas.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use cut or awk commands into sed command ? Message-ID: <476052CA.2050802@web.de> In-Reply-To: <015f01c83d04$a1df2b20$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym> References: <015f01c83d04$a1df2b20$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>
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Halid Faith schrieb:
> I have a file named file1 which contains some values.
> I want to replace some strings into it, so I use sed command but I get an error.
>
> sed "s#oldstring#`cut -d, -f3 file2`#" file1
>
> sed: 1: "s/yenidomain2/f0b2875d- ...": unterminated substitute in regular expression
>
> also I get an error with awk command into sed;
> sed "s#oldstring#`awk -F, '{print$3}' file2`#" file1
> sed: 1: "s#yenidomain2#f0b2875d- ...": unterminated substitute in regular expression
>
Sure you know what you are doing?
You are giving probably various linefeeds to your substitution (assuming
file2 has more than one line).
E.G. 'awk <...> file2' produces as many lines as there are in file2. But
the substitution in sed has to be a string-like expression with no line
feeds.
There for the "unterminated substitution" error.
Rg, Tino
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