I am having one of those days, can anyone help out with a probably
very simple question? I have a script to move through each line of a
file and do some parsing with a combiantion of sed and awk. I am
having trouble passing a variable into the address portion of the sed
command though. The basic outline is :
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#!/bin/bash
filename=$1
filelines=`wc-l $filename`
for ((a=1; a <= filelines ; a++))
do
sed '$aq;d' $filename
blah,
blah,
blah,
done
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the problem with the -- sed '$aq;d' $filename -- syntax is that it
process evey line of the file not the line number specified by the
loop counter. I have also tried -- sed -n '$ap' $filename -- but it
just returns the "p". Another attempt was -- sed '$a!d' $filename --
and it returned the whole file as well. Any help with passing the
variable to the SED address would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Keith
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