Friends / Noor Follow the code to alter files, according with sample sent before. Ps.: The files should be in sample directory (in this sample), and a new file will be generate with all modifications. Ps2.: You can use "sed -i" to alter file on the fly, but doesn't work in Solaris (your case). Cheers Waldirio ##### #!/bin/bash BASE="sample" for b in $(ls -1 $BASE) do sed -e '1i UNRECOVERABLE' -e "s/^infile '/infile '\/DDUMPS\/sybase_dump\/out\/DATACITI_MASTER\/Oracle\//g" -e "s/^into/append into/g" $BASE/$b >$BASE/$b.new done ##### 2009/12/14 Kjetil Strønen <kjetil@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:34 +0530, Noor Mulla wrote: >> Alessandro, >> >> Thanks... >> >> In your_file_list I have to list all the ctl files seperated by comma. >> How to run this… > > >> How to add the other caluse as in the trailing mail(bold/red). > > > Taking a sed-approach, I'd do: > ---- > for FILE in `ls -1 *.ctl` > do > mv ${FILE} ${FILE}.bkp_`date +%Y%m%d`; > cat ${FILE}.bkp_`date +%Y%m%d` | \ > sed -e "s/^load\ data/unrecoverable\nload\ data/g" \ > -e "s/^infile\ '/infile\ '\/new\/full\/path\//g" \ > -e "s/^into\ table/append\ into\ table/g" > ${FILE}; > done > ---- > > --Kjetil > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alessandro Vercelli [mailto:alever@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 5:21 PM >> Subject: Re:adding lines >> >> Hi Noor, >> >> awk should be the best tool for the job, but I don't know it much so >> the following bash could work for your needs: >> >> for FILE in "<your_file_list>" >> do >> vi -c "1,\$s#infile '#infile >> '/DDUMPS/sybase_dump/out/DATACITI_MASTER/Oracle/#g|wq" $FILE >> done >> >> The instruction between "do" and "done" must be on a single line. >> >> Make a safety copy of your scripts before doing. >> >> Hope it helps, >> >> Alessandro >> >> >Hi All, >> > >> >By using awk or any unix commands, can we change all ctl files .We >> have 25 such files which is subject to change. >> > >> > >> >load data >> >infile 'DATACITI_MASTER.dbo.aspc_defaultdb.dat' "str '<EORD>'" >> >into table DATACITI_MASTER.aspc_defaultdb >> >fields terminated by '<EOFD>' >> >trailing nullcols >> >( >> >virtualid , >> >host CHAR(255) >> >) >> >to >> > >> >We need to change it to below by adding data in bold(red) to all >> existing ctl files. >> > >> >UNRECOVERABLE >> >load data >> >infile >> '/DDUMPS/sybase_dump/out/DATACITI_MASTER/Oracle/DATACITI_MASTER.dbo.aspc_defaultdb.dat' >> "str '<EORD>'" >> > append into table DATACITI_MASTER.aspc_defaultdb >> >fields terminated by '<EOFD>' >> >trailing nullcols >> >( >> >virtualid , >> >host CHAR(255) >> >) >> > >> > >> >Please provide me the solution asap. >> > >> >Thanks & Regards >> >Noor > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- ______________ Atenciosamente Waldirio msn: waldirio@xxxxxxxxx Site: www.waldirio.com.br Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l