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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers sed command Post 302760901 by macastor on Thursday 24th of January 2013 06:09:33 PM
Old 01-24-2013
sed command
Hi all!
Need a little help on a sed command that I've used in the past, but I'd like to change it up a bit. Here is my script

Code:
SearchVal = "RED"
ReplaceVal = "BLUE"
wrkFile = /u/tmp/file1
srcFile = /usr/temp/prodfile

sed "/${SearchVal}/s/^\(.\{101\}\).\{7\}/\1${ReplaceVal}/" $wrkFile > $srcFile

What I'm looking to do is rather than using variables, I'd like to just perform the sed command without variables. Such as....
Code:
sed "/${RED}/s/^\(.\{101\}\).\{7\}/\1${BLUE}/" /u/tmp/file1 > /usr/temp/prodfile

I've tried without the "$'s" but that didn't work? am I missing something??

Thanks!
 

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