I'm trying to write a script, and the first part requires one line of a text document to be changed. The script asks: "ID?" and the user types in an ID number, then (hopefully) the script awks it over into the right line of the text file. I originally thought it would be easy to say "Insert $ID into line 14 of file1" but it seems not to be.
A proper example would be really nice. I'm not even sure if I should be using awk.
Thanks
-viceroy

To get the user id, I would use: read -p
To get rid of extra parts of that, I would use: cut
To insert into a particular line of file, I would use: sed -i

here's how you can do it in awk:

Thanks, that worked!

Actually this worked in my test, but the actual script didn't like it. I'm really inexperienced, and this script is mainly a learning experience. Right now I have:
echo "Enter ID group, separating each integer with a space.
(EX: 8 5 0 4 3 2 2 1)"
read ID1 ID2 ID3 ID4 ID5 ID6 ID7 ID8 ID9
awk -v ID1=$ID1 'NR==39{ print ID1} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID2 'NR==40{ print ID2} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID3 'NR==41{ print ID3} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID4 'NR==42{ print ID4} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID5 'NR==43{ print ID5} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID6 'NR==44{ print ID6} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID7 'NR==45{ print ID7} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID8 'NR==46{ print ID8} {print}' "LOG"
awk -v ID2=$ID9 'NR==47{ print ID9} {print}' "LOG"
echo "Hopefully $ID1 $ID2 $ID3 $ID4 $ID5 $ID6 $ID7 $ID8 $ID9 was inserted."

This is kind of ridiculous. I ask for spaces because I don't know how to cut up a string of integers. The biggest problem, though, is that awk isn't inserting the text.
Thanks.

Won't work from line 41 onwards because you assign to ID2
but are trying to insert ID3-9 instead of ID2.

What result *do* you get?


Cheers,
Tink

Um...wow. Whoops.
The results were not very interesting. Nonexistent, actually.
After fixing that, now the last integer gets inserted. But 39 - 46 are still AWOL. I must admit this is an improvement, but I don't know what I'm missing.

Thanks for the help.

you don't have to call so many awk commands. not tested yet