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Old 04-22-2009
timgolding timgolding is offline
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cool lots of variations. This also works


Code:
sed 's/<doc_root><\/doc_root>/<doc_root>\/'$i'\/web<\/doc_root>/g' $my_file > "tmp/"$i".xml"
mv "tmp/"$i".xml" $my_file

no need for so many quotes.
Also you need to double quote "$i" in case a file name has embedded quotes:

Code:
sed 's/<doc_root><\/doc_root>/<doc_root>\/'"$i"'\/web<\/doc_root>/g' $my_file > "tmp/$i.xml"
mv "tmp/$i.xml" "$my_file"