[GLLUG] SED Emergency

[Sean]

Just out of curiousity can't you just set up the Netscape Roaming 
profiles and be rid of the problem altogether? 


On Mon, 12 May 2003, Brian Hoort wrote:

> I'm way behind on a deadline and can't get a da*n SED script to function 
> properly on Win XP. Please help ASAP if you are able. I realize I'm trying 
> to use a un*x app on Win, but please try and imagine the helpful response I 
> would get by asking a Windows list group this question. In addition, great 
> stuff like SED help bring Linux into Windows shops (like mine).
> 
> Background:
> I'm setting up XP computers for a student computer lab. In order to get 
> apps to behave properly for new users, I have to configure the Default User 
> so that apps are already setup, and users aren't asked to register or 
> configure apps, etc. Netscape 7.02 (should be very similar to Mozilla) has 
> a path hard-coded into a file in the users profile\Application Data\Mozilla 
> folder called 'registry.dat' with the users profile path, and thereby their 
> username. I need to change this path to %USERNAME% so that it points to the 
> actual users profile, not the profile of the user I'm using to setup this 
> computer. If you don't follow, just forget about it, it's not really 
> required to solve this problem.
> 
> Here is the script:
> c:\progra~1\util\sed.exe "s\gradsetup\%USERNAME%\g" registry.dat >registry.new
> pause
> 
> 
> 
> Here is the output (I split it and added the '\' chars):
> C:\Documents and Settings\gradsetup\Application Data\Mozilla>\
> c:\progra~1\util\sed.exe "gradsetup\s\gradsetup\gradsetup\g"\
>   registry.dat  1>"registry.new" c:/progra~1/util/sed.exe:\
>   -e expression #1, char 2: Extra characters after command
> 
> C:\DOCUME~1\GRADSE~1\APPLIC~1\Mozilla>pause
> Press any key to continue . . .
> 
> 
> 
> Please notice in the above output the '1' that has been inserted before the 
> '>' and is 2 characters after the input filename. This appears every time, 
> and it's not in the batch file.
> 
> I should also point out that the input file is binary. Is that a problem? 
> The section of text is there if I open with Notepad and search for it.
> 
> I suspect this has something to do with the version of sed I'm using not 
> being able to handle DOS ANSI text from the batch file properly, and it is 
> misinterpreting the '>' character, or something along those lines. Please 
> note that I've used this method in the lab before, had the same problem, 
> but somehow got around it by removing the spaces around the '>' in the 
> following command (this command is one, long line):
> 
> c:\progra~1\util\reg.exe query 
> "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Current 
> User"|c:\progra~1\util\sed.exe -e "s\REG_SZ\\g;s\Current 
> User\\g;s/^[     ]*//;s/[ ^]*$//;s/.* //;s/^/c:\\progra~1\\util\\winset.exe 
> USERNAME=/">c:\windows\temp\SETUSER.BAT
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> 
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