Man page - shtool-subst(1)
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Manual
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLE
HISTORY
SEE ALSO
NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [ -v | --verbose ] [ -t | --trace ] [ -n | --nop ] [ -w | --warning ] [ -q | --quiet ] [ -s | --stealth ] [ -i | --interactive ] [ -b | --backup ext ] [ -e | --exec cmd ] [ -f | --file cmd-file ] [ file ] [ file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed (1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following
command line options are available.
-v
,
--verbose
Display some processing information.
-t , --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n , --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w , --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q , --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s , --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file .
-i , --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b , --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext . Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e , --exec cmd
Specify sed (1) command directly.
-f , --file cmd-file
Read sed (1) command from file .
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) \([0-9]*\)-2000;(c) \1-2001;'
*.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n \
-e 's;ˆ\(prefix=\).*;\1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g' \
-e 's;ˆ\(sysconfdir=\).*;\1
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g' \
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool . It was prompted by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed (1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO
shtool (1), sed (1).