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Old 06-06-2008
Passing Parameter in SED command

Hi,

I am trying to replace a URL by another URL in the SED command e.g.

cat dir/filename1 | sed -e 's/"http:\/\/[^ ]*dtd"/"http:\/\/abc.def.com\/xyz.dtd"/' > dir/newfile.xml

But I need to pass a parameter to the SED command which should have the new url string i.e. http:\/\/abc.def.com\/xyz.dtd

$NEW_URL=http:\/\/abc.def.com\/xyz.dtd

I tried

cat dir/filename1 | sed -e 's/"http:\/\/[^ ]*dtd"/"$NEW_URL"/' > dir/newfile.xml

but instead of passing the new url, the old url was replaced by string '$NEW_URL' i.e. the parameter did not get replaced by its value.

Please help me in finding how can this be achieved.

Thanks
dsrookie
# 2  
Old 06-07-2008
You need to use double quotes. By the way, you can also avoid cat command and avoid escaping all slashes, providing a sed "delimiter" other than "/" (in my example I've used "!"):

Code:
NEW_URL="http://abc.def.com/xyz.dtd"

sed "s!http://[^ ]*dtd!${NEW_URL}!" dir/filename1 > dir/newfile.xml

# 3  
Old 06-09-2008
Thanks a lot robotronic...it works perfectly fine
 
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