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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Replacing valuses containig space and special characters Post 302936996 by blackrageous on Monday 2nd of March 2015 01:55:11 PM
Old 03-02-2015
This seems to be just a replace issue easily handled by sed without the need for the power of awk.

The $ is the only character that needs to be quoted to prevent the system thinking a variable is in use, this works...

Code:
sed -e "s/CAST ('\${DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS DATE FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD')/CAST(CAST('\${G_DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS DATE FORMAT 'MM-DD-YYYY') as DATE FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD')/g" x.x

where x.x is file containing
Code:
CAST ('${DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS DATE FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD')

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