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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help with a sed script Post 302603394 by pd2 on Thursday 1st of March 2012 12:26:58 AM
Old 03-01-2012
Hello friends ,

I need help with passing array variabls in sed command on unix. I tried below command and it picks up the value from array but something is wrong as it throws garbled sed. Please help me fixing it.

sed -n "/(${tags[2]}\)/,/\(${tags[1]})\/p" patch_list.txt

Out put on unix is .....

sed: command garbled: /\(FW_12_10\)/,/\(FW_R12_06)\/p
 

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