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Quote:

Originally Posted by pludi

First of all: what OS, what shell, ...
Second: how about putting the line in a script?

Hi pludi,

Using HP-UX, /bin/ksh.
Yes, im using a script and just doing command line to manually test, I store the line in a variable, like so:

Code:

 echo $line | sed -e 's/xxx/yyy/g'

but i still get this upon execution:

Code:

sed: Function s/xxx cannot be parsed.

I think the last parts of the command are not read anymore, due to the character limit.

Thanks.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CarloM

Why not just pass the file directly to sed?

Hi CarloM,

I'm not sure how to do that. Is there a syntax? I'm used to just piping it in after other commands.

Thanks.

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