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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers New line in Echo command Post 302870113 by scott_cog on Friday 1st of November 2013 09:18:40 AM
Old 11-01-2013
Hi bakunin, that was an neat and clear explanation, really appreciate your help.

But am not that good in sed, so some how i have manged to understand whats the sed is doing in ur command.

But, still am getting error that it cannot be parsed to sed. Smilie .

Based on the If loop,
Code:
Var_name="This is first line.<br />This is second line.<br />This is third line."

sed: Function s/searchstring/This is first line.<br />This is second line.<br />This is third line./g cannot be parsed.

Modification as per your suggestion :
Code:
search="search_string"
Var_name="This is first line.<br />This is second line.<br />This is third line."
search="$(echo $search | sed 's/\//\\&/')"
replace="$(echo "$Var_name" | sed 's/\//\\&/')"
sed 's/'"${search}"'/'"${replace}"'/g' | sed 's/search/replace/g' > tmp_file

Please let me know what mistake am doing ?

---------- Post updated at 08:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:22 AM ----------

Thanks Scrutinizer, That helps and fixed the issue as well perfectly. But am not able to find your post online, i got the mail, but am not able to find it here. I really want to thank you.
It may sound little weird, but am not able to see your reply.

I really appreciate the help from Scott and
Scrutinizer.


Last edited by scott_cog; 11-01-2013 at 10:09 AM..
 

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