BEFORE APPEND

September 11, 2008

>>Script Language and Platform: Oracle

This script will insert a message into a specific line of multiple files.

 [oracle@localhost jp]$ ls -l
 total 48
 -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 258 Aug 10 22:56 jp1.dat
 -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 258 Aug 10 22:56 jp2.dat
 -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 258 Aug 10 22:56 jp3.dat
 -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 258 Aug 10 22:56 jp4.dat
 -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 258 Aug 10 22:57 jp5.dat

I have to include the following message "THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS COMPANY" in the third line of each of these files.

The redirection option ">>" can append the line to the end of a file. Let us see how to insert the message in the middle of a file.

I checked whether any of my files contain the message.

 [oracle@localhost jp]$ grep "THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS  COMPANY" *dat
 [oracle@localhost jp]$

I created a while loop to implement the task of copying the message in the middle of the files *.dat.

 [oracle@localhost jp]$ cat while_loop.sh
 #!/bin/sh -x
 #Author JP Vijaykumar Oracle DBA
 #Date   08 - 08 - 08
 #THIS SCRIPT INSERTS THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE 
 #IN THE THIRD LINE OF FILES *.DAT
 #THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS  COMPANY
 
 ls -1 |grep -v while_loop.sh|while read FILE
 do
 head -2 $FILE >> TEMP
 echo "THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS  COMPANY" >> TEMP
 tail -`cat $FILE|wc -l|awk '{print $0 -2}'` $FILE >> TEMP
 mv TEMP $FILE
 done
 
 exit

I executed the script.

 [oracle@localhost jp]$./while_loop.sh

I checked whether any of my files contain this message.

 [oracle@localhost jp]$ grep "THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS COMPANY" *dat
 jp1.dat:THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS COMPANY
 jp2.dat:THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS COMPANY
 jp3.dat:THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS COMPANY
 jp4.dat:THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS COMPANY
 jp5.dat:THIS SCRIPT BELONGS TO ROAD FARMS COMPANY

Please test this script thoroughly before implementing.

Author: JP Vijaykumar

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