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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with sed command in shell script. Post 302089702 by jack1981 on Wednesday 20th of September 2006 11:44:22 AM
Old 09-20-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by bhagat.singh-j
Guys,
I've a problem in the "sed" command used in my shellscripts

This is the problamatic line in my shell script:
sed -e 's/${line1}/${line1_m}/g' prod_hier_1234.txt > test.txt
It doesn't do the job of replacing the string stored in variable 'line1' to 'line1_m'.

However If I replace the line as below(by replacing the actual string)
sed -e 's/A,P,CMD,20-SEP-06,2006/A,P,CMD,20-SEP-06,20062814/g' prod_hier_1234.txt>test.txt
it works..

Could someone provide thougs about what could be the problem and the possible solution?

Thanks,
Bhagat
Hi,

I haven't tested it but don'y you have to double quote your sed scripting instead of single when using variables?
sed -e "s/${line1}/${line1_m}/g" prod_hier_1234.txt > test.txt
 

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shtool-subst

SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)					      GNU Portable Shell Tool					       SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)

NAME

       shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations

SYNOPSIS

       shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
       [-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -v, --verbose
	   Display some processing information.

       -t, --trace
	   Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.

       -n, --nop
	   No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.

       -w, --warning
	   Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
	   operations resulted in no content change on all files.

       -q, --quiet
	   Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.

       -s, --stealth
	   Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.

       -i, --interactive
	   Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.

       -b, --backup ext
	   Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext.  Default is to overwrite the original file.

       -e, --exec cmd
	   Specify sed(1) command directly.

       -f, --file cmd-file
	   Read sed(1) command from file.

EXAMPLE

	#   shell script
	shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]

	#    RPM spec-file
	%install
	    shtool subst -v -n 
		-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g' 
		-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g' 
		`find . -name Makefile -print`
	    make install

HISTORY

       The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S.  Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool.  It was prompted
       by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.

SEE ALSO

       shtool(1), sed(1).

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