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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Replacing $ in variable Post 302171673 by ashish_uiit on Friday 29th of February 2008 07:07:45 AM
Old 02-29-2008
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Originally Posted by sank
probably the variable k is not formed correctly. Can you try echo $k and see if you get $DESTDIR/$PKG/$VERSION ? Are you forming the variable k like this : k="\$DESTDIR/\$PKG/\$VERSION" ? if so, the sed command works as expected.
$DESTDIR/$PKG/$VERSION is coming from a read only file to k while reading.
 

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PARAMETERS

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