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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trouble with sed and substituting a string with special characters in variable Post 302649889 by ampsys on Friday 1st of June 2012 08:20:09 AM
Old 06-01-2012
Thanks for your reply, bakunin. Sorry it wasn't more clear, but in the OP, I was trying to convey that $marker was the string itself that I wanted to replace (VENDORLIST), and $markerrepl was the cat(ed) results of the formatted file I gave an example of:

Code:
                                                          ITEM{
                                                          LABEL = Panasonic Corporation of N.A.
                                                          VALUE = Panasonic Corporation of N.A.
                                                          }
                                                           ITEM{
                                                          LABEL = NewWave Technologies, Inc.
                                                          VALUE = NewWave Technologies, Inc.
                                                          }
                                                           ITEM{
                                                          LABEL = Kyocera Doc Solutions of America, Inc.
                                                          VALUE = Kyocera Doc Solutions of America, Inc.
                                                          }
                                                          ITEM{
                                                          LABEL = Ingram Micro, Inc.
                                                          VALUE = Ingram Micro, Inc.
                                                          }

Anyway, I guess we can close this. I gave up on sed and trying to figure out how to escape the special characters and just used perl to accomplish the desired result.

Thanks again for your help!
 

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mitem_opts(3X)															    mitem_opts(3X)

NAME

       mitem_opts - set and get menu item options

SYNOPSIS

       #include <menu.h>
       int set_item_opts(ITEM *item, Item_Options opts);
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       int item_opts_off(ITEM *item, Item_Options opts);
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       The function item_opts_off turns off the given option bits, and leaves others alone.

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RETURN VALUE

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PORTABILITY

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AUTHORS

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