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quick sed question
hey,

Im just wondering is there away to get sed to read from a variable
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$STRING="cat"

sed -e "s/cat/dog/g" "$STRING"
it doesn't seem to work, i really need to be able to recursively change the same data set...
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My answer to your other post shows how to do this.

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hehe yeh thanks i got it now
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