Originally posted by: gerard-mzs

Hello experts,

Im trying to execute the following lines of script in AIX 5.3,
but the sed command seems to fail as I cant see any output and
the $responseXmlFile that gets created is 0 bytes

# Add new lines
sed -e 's/\(<\/\w*:\w*\>\)./\1>\n/g' "$tempResponseXmlFile" > "$responseXmlFile"

if $? -ne 0 ; then
warn "sed reported an error."
fi

# Create local variables
local queueName_arr_tmp=`sed -n -e 's/.<\w:queueName>\(.\)<\/\w:queueName>.*/\1/p' "$responseXmlFile"`
local queueStatus_arr_tmp=`sed -n -e 's/.<\w:queueStatus>\(.\)<\/\w:queueStatus>.*/\1/p' "$responseXmlFile"`

This script was originally written for Linux. When I tried to run it on HP-UX I faced the same problem.
So I installed the GNU sed on HP-UX and it worked fine. I did the same (installed GNU sed) on AIX,
but it hasnt resolved the problem.

The $tempResponseXmlFile is attached to this thread to your ref.

Any ideas on how to get these sed script lines to work on AIX 5.3 ?
Thanks
Gerard
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Originally posted by: gerard-mzs

Attaching a pair of $responseXmlFile and $tempResponseXmlFile
generated from a working system on Linux.
So you can see the difference in content.
It's basically adding "\n" to specific parts of the string.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi Gerard,

I assume you have modified your PATH so that the gnu sed is found before the IBM version?

The reason I looked up your message is that I have a failing sed command in a "make" of open source software. In this situation I was able to workaround the failure by deleting it from the make file, running the sed manually from the command line, then rerunning make; but this won't help you.

Good luck,
George
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Originally posted by: GerardM

Hi George,

Thanks for your inputs.
Im a novice in UNIX scripting, so you are right,
even though I had the GNU sed executable in my scripts directory,
it was picking up the IBM version of it.
So I changed my script file to prefix "." to the system $PATH.

Thanks
-Gerard
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