Hi,

I have a file with the path of the directory present somewhere in it.I have assigned the path of the directory name to a variable. I want to replace it with another string.The code i used was

sed -e '/$variable/sbcd/' filename.

since the path name includes slashes '/', my sed command is not working. How to solve this out to replace the path name with another string.

change the ' to " and use a different separator - not / plus you need an s:

Wow. Thats great. Thanks a lot.

Hi,

How do i replace one variable with another variable?

for e.g
inp1=ab
inp2=cd

how do i replace $inp1 with $inp2?

And how do i replace a string with a variable?

Can you please help?I am stuck here.

Can you please make the question more clear ?

What you like to do?
as i got your question it is a easy task to do

just do
or elaborate more on the question part.

Buddy,

As my friend Dileep has correctly pointed out, your question seems to be confusing.
As per my understanding,
"how do i replace $inp1 with $inp2?" means u want to swap the values of the two variables, is it?
If yes then use one more variable and u can easily swap the values stored in the variables.
Replacing a string with a variable means you want to assign a variable to another variable rather then assigning it to some string,rite?
If so den u can do it d same way as u do for string. But here the variable needs to have some value stored in it.