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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Path a variable to sed that includes a path Post 302501693 by mavkoup on Friday 4th of March 2011 10:53:51 AM
Old 03-04-2011
I never got the hang of awk, and I can't get that command to work lol. I'll keep working on it.

---------- Post updated at 10:37 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:36 AM ----------

Arg I'm annoyed. Here's my actual code:

Code:
Some process sets $var to:
var="/home/mavkoup/data"

start_f="BEGIN_FILE_INFO `echo ${var}`"

cat input.txt | sed -n -e "/${start_f}/,/END_FILE_INFO/p" > output.txt

I get the error sed: command garbled: /BEGIN_FILE_INFO /home/mavkoup/data/,/END/p

If instead I use
var="BEGIN_FILE_INFO" the code runs fine.

---------- Post updated at 10:53 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:37 AM ----------

FYI I got it. Needed to figure out how to replace the / with \/ in the path. s/\//\\\//g wouldn't work, needed it to be s:\/:\\\/:g and then everything was good again!
 

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