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Re: Can anyone help me with 'sed' please?

Am Donnerstag, 09.10.03 um 10:16 Uhr schrieb Rob Stott:

I'm using the command...

sed 's/'<PATH>/Users/admin/Desktop/PH7323 NR80 E27 FROSTED 29361<12NCs>62717132 62716652 62705862 62705842 62716632 62705832 62705812'/'NewText'/' '/Volumes/Philips Server/ph_db.txt' > '/Volumes/Philips Server/ph_db.txt'


I'm getting the error report;

Ambiguous input redirect.

Yes, of course ... :-)

You can't read and write a file at the same time. Try:

sed [...] >"/Volumes/Philips Server/tmp$$" && mv "/Volumes/Philips Server/tmp$$" "/Volumes/Philips Server/ph_db.txt"


The "&&" is better than a ";" because the "mv" will be executed on success of the preceding "sed", only.

"$$" is the variable containing the process' PID and is commonly used to generate unique file names.


Depending on how you generate ph_db.txt, you could avoid writing the first file at all by using pipes, e.g.:

ls "/Users/admin/Desktop/PH7323*" | sed [...] >"/Volumes/Philips Server/ph_db.txt"


Have fun,
Markus

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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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