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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can I use a variable in sed? Post 51668 by tromag on Thursday 27th of May 2004 03:39:31 PM
Old 05-27-2004
How can I use a variable in sed?

Hi
I'm trying to change a part of a line with sed. Usually I will run
sed 's/mytext/mynewtext/'

Now I have a variable: var=mynewtext

sed 's/mytext/$var/' does not work. I have also tried to protect the $ with different characters but it still does'nt work.

I will be very happy if someone has a solution to this.
 

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rumakeindex(1)                                                         teTeX                                                        rumakeindex(1)

NAME
rumakeindex - process a LaTeX index using Russian Cyrillic characters SYNOPSIS
rumakeindex basename DESCRIPTION
rumakeindex is used to run makeindex(1) on idx files that use Russian characters. It is part of the T2 package. rumakeindex runs sed(1) on the idx file to convert Cyrillic character commands to 8-bit ASCII characters; pipes the results through makein- dex(1); and then through tr(1) to do some final conversions. The results are placed in a KOI8-R encoded ind file. FILES
basename.idx LaTeX index entry file basename.ilg LaTeX index log file basename.ind LaTeX processed index file BUGS
None known, but report any bugs found to the authors. COPYRIGHT
The T2 package is Copyright 1997-1999 Werner Lemberg, Vladimir Volovich and any individual authors listed elsewhere in package files. It may be distributed under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.1 of this license or (at your option) any later version. SEE ALSO
makeindex(1), sed(1), tr(1), <ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/T2/README>. AUTHOR
Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>, Vladimir Volovich <TeX@vvv.vsu.ru>. This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions with- out contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author). teTeX September 2000 rumakeindex(1)
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