01-02-2008
pass a variable to sed p in a loop?
Hi, Thanks for looking,,,,
(kornshell)
tmp3 is a list of line numbers
I want to print the lines from my list
code:
while read j
do
echo $j #works fine
echo $filename #works fine
#sed "'$jp'" "$filename" #NO GOOD
#sed '"$jp"' $filename #NO GOOD
#sed -n 20p $filename #works fine
done < tmp3 > tmp4
How do i get sed to treat $j as a variable and not get garbled?
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
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Display some processing information.
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Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
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No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
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Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
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