Need to replace function with another one, which has same name

drele · 08-22-2014, 05:14 AM

for example I have to files. file1 and file2.
file1 and file2 consist of shell code blocks, which have functions and all sort of special characters.

So I wan't to replace all function and its content from file1 with same function and all their content of file2.

I used sed with that, but I am unable to execute properly sed because of special characters escaping which gives me truble.

Anyone has soulution?

grail · 08-22-2014, 10:57 AM

Examples of what you have tried and what the data looks like would be extremely helpful.

gnashley · 08-22-2014, 12:19 PM

All you have to do is re-declare the function with the new code. The last declared code is what gets used/saved:

Code:

a () { echo a; } 
a () { echo b; }
a