How to use cut or awk commands into sed command ?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-12-13 09:35, Halid Faith <maslak at ihlas.net.tr> wrote:
> Let me try to explain
> I have a file called A which contains variable values as below;
> file1, abc12
> foot1, cba11
> boby, def123
> ...
> 
> Also I have another file called B which contains partly valuable values as
> following;
> ### file of A begin
> Server valuable1
> Client valuable2
> #### the file end
> 
> I have to assign the first column valuables in A to valuable1 in B and
> assign second column valuable1 in A to valuable2 in B.
>
> Finally I should see as following in a file called C
> Server file1
> Client abc12
> 
> Server foot1
> Client cba11
> 
> Server boby
> Client def123
>
> How can I do that ? Could you give me a script ?

Look carefully at the second input file:

	Server valuable1
	Client valuable2

Now look *very* carefully at the output you want:

	Server file1
	Client abc12

	Server foot1
	Client cba11

	Server boby
	Client def123

Can you imagine a *loop* which reads the input file and creates the
second?  In `pseudo-code' this would be something like:

	for each pair of (server, client) from `file1':
		for each line in `file2':
			substitute `server' and `client' in `line'
			print resulting line
		print an empty line

That shouldn't be *too* hard to write in a shell script.  Now that you
have the outline, see if you have better luck.

- Giorgos