Problem with sed (search/replace)


 
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# 8  
Old 08-26-2008
I run in bash on Mac OSX...

When I type /bin/bash -x myscript on the prompt, I find about sed (exactly) :

sed -i_temp /WORD/s/10/12/g FILE

is this ok?
# 9  
Old 08-26-2008
Ok, I found the problem. It had nothing to do with sed... sorry for that Smilie
# 10  
Old 08-26-2008
That looks good to me.
Are you trying to replace WORD 8 8 8 with WORD 10 10 10 ??? Then it check the values of the variables, as in the above u r trying to replace all 10 with 12 after WORD on all the lines.
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