On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f;; > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > ' [restart] (Restart) > [separator] > [exit] (Exit) > [end] > [end]' > > What I want to do is to add this script onto the end of the first > command, and it is - > #!/bin/bash > # title - submenu > > echo [submenu] (My Menu) > echo [include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu) > echo [end] > echo [separator] > > So the final running command will look like this - > 'mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f; submenu;;' > > and the main menu will look like this at the end - > [restart] (Restart) > [separator] > [exit] (Exit) > [end] > [submenu] (My Menu) > [include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu) > [end] > [separator] > > But how do I do it please?
sed is your friend. If I've followed your message (you want menu-`date` to contain the submenu), this should do the trick--*provided* the last [end] is the last line in the file: mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); \ sed -i -e '$ i \ \t\t\[submenu] (My Menu)\ \t\t\[include] (~/.fluxbox/usermenu)\ \t\t\[end]\ \t\t\[separator] ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); \ mmakerfluxbox -f; submenu;; If the last [end] is the only one in the file at the beginning of the line, change the first line of the sed chant to: sed -e '/^\[end]/ i \ (Instead of addressing the last line of the file, address the line with [end] at B.o.L.) N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201311211735.38957.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
