Re: Replacing a pattern in one file by reading a string from anotherfile

Kaushik wrote:

>         I found out another way(though quite lame , i  admit) to do this
> same thing :-
> 
> paste 2 3 | sed 's/:/ /g' | awk '{print $3,":",$2}'
> (Here we can always replace the awk part by the sed equivalent)
> 
> File 2 contains :
> 
> username:SAPextract
> password:$$$$$
> Monthtoextract: October
> 
> and File 3 contains :
> 
> RunasUser: $username
> RunasPsswd: $password
> RunMonth: $Monthtoextract

Yet another solution, which does the same thing:

   paste 3 2 | sed 's/:.*:/:/'

This doesn't need to be so complicated.

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Eric Pement - eric.pement@xxxxxxxxx



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