Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mq!alan
From: alan@mq.com (Alan H. Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Stupid sed question
Keywords: sed XENIX
Message-ID: <118@mq.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 22:29:44 GMT
Organization: Micro-Quick Systems, Inc.
Lines: 44

(Hmmm. Hard to tell if this is the right group nowadays :)

I'm trying to write a script to edit the /etc/ttytype file under XENIX. The
idea is to search the file for the line for a given port and alter the
terminal type associated with it. The ttytype file consists of lines
like:

wy60ak	ttya1
svt1210	ttya2
ansi	ttya3

The separator between the fields is a tab character (\011, 0x09). So,

*********************
:
# Edit script

tty='ttya1'
ttytype='vt100n'

line=`fgrep $tty /etc/ttytype`
cat /etc/ttytype | sed "s/$line/$ttytype	$tty/" >tempfile
#		This is a tab -----------^^^^^^

if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
 mv tempfile /etc/ttytype
fi
***********************

This works great, if the file does not contain another terminal that starts
with ttya1 (like ttya10):

ansi	ttya1
ansi	ttya10

In this case, sed barfs with "command" garbled. What am I missing here ? I 
understand that the problem has to do with sed matching more than one line,
but why doesn't it just (incorrectly) screw up both lines ?
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