Hi All,

I have developed a script in which i have taken the path from the user in a variables named FromPath and ToPath.

I want to replace the FromPath with ToPath. For that I am using sed command in the following way.

cp $file bk_$file

FromPath=/appl/nims/nimsc1

FromPath=`echo $FromPath | sed 's/\//\\//g'

It should return \/appl\/nims\/nimsc1 to use it in SED command.

sed 's/$FromPath/$ToPath/g' bk_$file > $file


But it is not working and it is raising an error command garbled.

It is working fine on the unix prompt. but in script it is raising an error.

So please co-operate me and tell me what wrong I am doing.

something like this

I have already tried the script you have given. the error is sed: command garbled: s/\//\\//g. It is working on the unix prompt but not in script.

My some portion of the code is as below

FromPath=`echo $FromPath | sed 's/\//\\\//g'`
ToPath=`echo $ToPath | sed 's/\//\\\//g'`
From_UIDPWD=`echo $From_UIDPWD | sed 's/\//\\\//g'`
To_UIDPWD=`echo $To_UIDPWD | sed 's/\//\\\//g'`

echo $From_UIDPWD $To_UIDPWD $FromPath $ToPath $From_ORA_SID

$To_ORA_SID
cd scripts
for file in my_*.sh
do
echo $file
if [ -w $file ]
then
cp $file bk_$file
#sed 's/$From_UIDPWD/$To_UIDPWD/g;s/$FromPath/$ToPath/g;s/@$From_ORA_SID/@$To_ORA_SID/g' bk_$file > $file
sed 's/@$From_ORA_SID/@$To_ORA_SID/g' bk_$file > $file
rm bk_$file
else
echo "The file $file is read only file." | tee -a CouldNotChangeFile.log
fi
done

Suggest me something to solve this problem.

This is not needed.
Use double quotes to get the value of variables inside sed command

Thank you it is working fine now.