On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, William Park wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:22:24AM -0700, Radim wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have such script: > > > > (ONLY THIS THREE LINES ARE THE COMMANDS ) > > content=$(cat $script | sed '/function codecs/,/fi;/d');
Which will fail if "$script" contains whitespace, and cat is unnecessary: content=$( sed '/function codecs/,/fi;/d' "$script") > > content=$(echo $content | sed -n '/mandriva/,/fi;}/p'); > > content=$(echo $content | sed '/^\s*urpmi[:space:]--auto/p'); If you don't quote $content, echo will put it all on one line. content=$(echo "$content" | sed -n '/mandriva/,/fi;}/p'); content=$(echo "$content" | sed '/^\s*urpmi[:space:]--auto/p'); -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
