This is what you said Herta Van den Eynde > On 13/02/2008, Scott Ruckh <sruckh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I would like to do the following SED replacement, but I am not having >> much >> luck and thought I would ask for help. >> >> TEXT1="some-text a.b.c.d a.b.c.d a.b.c.d a.b.c.d" >> TEXT2="some-text 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 3.3.3.3 4.4.4.4" >> >> sed -i "s/$TEXT1/$TEXT2/g" $INFILE >> >> ;a.b.c.d are unknown IP Addresses. >> >> ---------------------- >> >> I have tried this: >> >> TEXT2="some-text 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 3.3.3.3 4.4.4.4" >> IP_REGEX="\b(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][$ >> TEXT1="^some-text[ \t]${IP_REGEX}[ \t]${IP_REGEX}[ \t]${IP_REGEX}[ >> \t]${IP_REGEX}" >> >> sed -i "s/$TEXT1/$TEXT2/g" $INFILE >> >> ---------------------- >> >> What I have does not work, and I need some assistance. >> >> Your help is appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> > I think you simply missed out on the option: -e instead of -i. This > works for me: > > TEXT1="some-text a.b.c.d a.b.c.d a.b.c.d a.b.c.d" > TEXT2="some-text 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 3.3.3.3 4.4.4.4" > > sed -e "s/$TEXT1/$TEXT2/g" $INFILE > Here is the poorly coded version I ended up with... This is going to be used to dynamically update my openvpn configuration server configuration. #!/bin/sh OUTFILE=/etc/openvpn/eth.txt SED=`which sed` PERL=`which perl` OVPN_CFG=/etc/openvpn/mytest.txt eth_ip=`/sbin/ifconfig | /bin/grep 'inet addr:'| /bin/grep -v '127.0.0.1' | /usr/bin/cut -d: -f2 | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}'` echo $eth_ip > $OUTFILE oct1=`/usr/bin/cut -d. -f1 $OUTFILE` oct2=`/usr/bin/cut -d. -f2 $OUTFILE` oct3=`/usr/bin/cut -d. -f3 $OUTFILE` CLASS_C="${oct1}.${oct2}.${oct3}" rm -f $OUTFILE BRIDGE_STRING="server-bridge ${eth_ip} 255.255.255.0 ${CLASS_C}.30 ${CLASS_C}.35" IP_REGEX="\b\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\b" BRIDGE_REGEX="server-bridge[ \t]${IP_REGEX}[ \t]${IP_REGEX}[ \t]${IP_REGEX}[ \t]${IP_REGEX}" ${PERL} -pi -e "s/${BRIDGE_REGEX}/${BRIDGE_STRING}/g" $OVPN_CFG -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list