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Old 02-23-2012
Question Find and Replace based on a list
Hello,

I have two files 'Master' and 'Rename'. Rename has two columns, the first containing old names and the second new names. I want to replace the old names in the 'Master' file with the new names. I ran the following and it does not seem to work. What needs to be done differently?

Thanks,
Guss


Code:
#!/bin/sh

while read a b
do
sed -i 's/$a/$b/g' Master
done < Rename


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Old 02-23-2012
Code:
sed -i "s/$a/$b/g" Master

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