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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Complex bash/sed, variables and nested quotes Post 302659955 by nocloud on Thursday 21st of June 2012 05:27:15 PM
Old 06-21-2012
Complex bash/sed, variables and nested quotes
Ok, this one isn't for everybody, it's pretty tough and I've spent a good deal of time on it without figuring it out yet.

Can anybody get this script to work:

Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    
    cq_fname="%let outputfile="/user/cq_"$1".csv";"
    
    sed "29s/.*/\"$cq_fname\"/" file1.sas > file2.sas

$1 is usually a date. Basically, I'm trying to replace line 29 of file1.sas with:
%let outputfile="/user/cq_20060104.csv";
Last edited by nocloud; 06-21-2012 at 06:31 PM.. Reason: typo
 

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