Request sed help - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

anjaan · #1 (**permalink**) 03-08-2005

Hi,

I've got two values say "var1" and "var2".

I want to replace the occurence of "var1" in the header of a file with "var2".

Something like this -

head -1 header.dat | sed "/s/$var1/$var2"

which I know is wrong. Can someone help me out here.

Thx

Perderabo · #2 (**permalink**) 03-08-2005

You were close...
sed "s/$var1/$var2/"

anjaan · #3 (**permalink**) 03-08-2005

Thanks Perderabo. It worked.

Yup, as u said... so close ... yet so far ...

Thx.

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