Help with sed command

[ISUTri]

I am a newbie to Unix and sed so although I saw some posts that were similar to what I'm having problems with I couldn't get the suggestions to work with my problem.

I am modifying a previously built .prog that has a sed command in it that builds an ftp command when the .prog is ran. My problem is my ftp is different than the previous one. The previous ftp was hitting a website to pull information. I am looking to grab the information from a directory on a neighboring server.

I am getting a sed: -e expression #1, char 12: Extra characters after command error

below is my code where it would be Server:\FolderB in windows.

sed -e 's/hq-ftp1\\\\Server\\\\FolderA\\\\/g' \
-e "s~<USERID>~$ftp_user~g" \
-e "s~<PASSWD>~$ftp_user_pass~g" \
-e "s~<INFILE>~$input_filename~g" \
-e "~<FILEDIR>~Lease~g" \
-e "/<OUTFILE>/$new_file/g" < $XXHH_TOP/bin/sftp_get.exp.template > $APPLPTMP/$sftp_get_file

Thanks!

 

[feherke]

Hi

Missing delimiter in [tt]s///[/tt] syntax :

sed -e 's[COLOR=red yellow]/[/color]hq-ftp1\\\\Server\\\\FolderA\\\\[COLOR=red yellow]/[/color]g' \

There should be three delimiters.



Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ISUTri]

Thanks for the tip. Now I'm getting a new error! Here's my revised code.


sed -e 's/<SITEID>/Server\\\\FolderA\\\\FolderB\\\\/g' \
-e "s~<USERID>~$ftp_user~g" \
-e "s~<PASSWD>~$ftp_user_pass~g" \
-e "s~<INFILE>~$input_filename~g" \
-e "~<FILEDIR>~Lease~g" \
e "/<OUTFILE>/$new_file/g" < $XXHH_TOP/bin/sftp_get.exp.template > $APPLPTMP/$sftp_get_file

This is the new error:

-e: not found

 

[PHV]

Replace this:
e "/<OUTFILE>/
with this:
-e "/<OUTFILE>/

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[feherke]

Hi

sed -e 's/<SITEID>/Server\\\\FolderA\\\\FolderB\\\\/g' \
-e "s~<USERID>~$ftp_user~g" \
-e "s~<PASSWD>~$ftp_user_pass~g" \
-e "s~<INFILE>~$input_filename~g" \
-e "[COLOR=red yellow]s[/color]~<FILEDIR>~Lease~g" \
[COLOR=red yellow]-[/color]e "[COLOR=red yellow]s[/color]/<OUTFILE>/$new_file/g" < $XXHH_TOP/bin/sftp_get.exp.template > $APPLPTMP/$sftp_get_file

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

OOps, seems I've missed some syntax issues ...

 

[ISUTri]

I'm sorry I uploaded the wrong error message. With the information above it's not the -e error it's the following one.

sed: -e expression #5, char 2: Unknown command: `<'


The -e occurs if I comment out the -e's in the middle of the script.

This is my code and I'm getting the unknown command error. Sorry about the confusion.


sed -e 's/<SITEID>/hq-ftp1\\\\InvoiceImport\\\\lease\\\\/g' \
-e "s~<USERID>~$ftp_user~g" \
-e "s~<PASSWD>~$ftp_user_pass~g" \
-e "s~<INFILE>~$input_filename~g" \
-e "~<FILEDIR>~Lease~g" \
-e "/<OUTFILE>/$new_file/g" < $XXHH_TOP/bin/sftp_get.exp.template > $APPLPTMP/$sftp_get_file

Thanks again

 

[PHV]

again:
-e "[!]s[/!]~<FILEDIR>~Lease~g" \

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[ISUTri]

That was it! The command line from feherke helped me get it working. I needed to put the s's that they highlighted in their code example along with that - in front of the last e.

Thanks everyone!

 

[p5wizard]

[rtfmp]probably you also needed to read the sed man page[/rtfmp] ;-)

HTH,

p5wizard

 

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