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Sed script trimming last line
Name: guruprasadv Date: March 22, 2005 at 18:11:54 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Hi,
I am going a global replace using the below script.My problem is the last line of the property file is getting deleted.Please any idea on this issue
find /export/home/direfor -type f -name '*.properties' -print | while read i do echo "the files that are being read are: " $i sed 's|'$1'|'$2'|g' $i > $i.tmp && mv $i.tmp $i done
Name: gurubit Date: March 23, 2005 at 03:21:19 Pacific
Reply:
It works fine for me. Put the contents file that you are using and also the $1 and the $2 options.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jim Boothe Date: March 23, 2005 at 07:27:55 Pacific
Reply:
sed will completely ignore the last line of the file if it is does not end with a newline. If this is the case, if you open one of these files with vi, it will issue a warning to this effect.
awk does not ignore these incomplete last lines, so you could use:
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