[nycbug-talk] sed Question

[Jan Schaumann]

Kevin Reiter <tux at penguinnetwerx.net> wrote:
 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> echo ""
> echo "Finding the fastest cvsup server."
> echo ""
> fastest_cvsup -c us | grep 1st | cut -d : -f 2 > server.txt
> sed 's/^[ \t]*//' server.txt > fast.txt
> fastest=`cat fast.txt`

You can do that without any temporary files (and one pipe less):

fastest=`fastest_cvsup -c us | awk '/1st/ {print $3;}'`
sed -e "s/host=cvsup.*FreeBSD\.org/host=$fastest/" ports-sup
      ^^^

Use regular quotes (") instead of ', otherwise the variable '$fastest'
won't be expanded.

-Jan

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