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Hi Hitori & all

well I did some reading as you suggested, however from the link below (http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sedfaq4.html#s4.30)
and the just to clarify, the correct way is...

Nice one - the single quotes around the variables has worked. thanks

I am just wondering if it's possible to refer to variables within a sed statement as follows:-

cat $file | sed -e 1's/$oldtext/$newtext/' > $file

as when I run the script, the variables are not...

Is there a way to simplify stating 1 through to 10, for example in a for loop construct?

for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
....
done

I have tried [1-10] (1-10) with no luck.. thanks

Thanks shereenmotor, adding ` ` around the awk statement allows the variable to take the result value of that statement.

Thanks for the responses Jim and vgersh99.
Your moving of the / / of my line works thanks vgersh99.

Ah ok, my file only has one column per line in any case, so it is not an issue here.

Another newbie to Unix scripting Q..

How do you assign a value resulting from a command, such as awk, to a variable.

I am currently trying:-

$awk '{print $1}' file1 > variable1

with no...

Hi,
I am just trying to extract a line at a time from a file using awk and can't yet extract even the first line using the following:-

awk '/(^[a-zA-Z0-9]) && (NR==1)/ {print $1}' file1

Is...

Strange, neither of the ways work on my sed version..? although it does say in the info page - version 3.02 of GNU Sed.

I suppose this is a silly newbie Q, but I have a set of text I am inserting into a file using a sed cmd and before I insert, I want to ask the sed operation to move to add a carriage return first,...

Thanks Jim, just the inclusion of {} around the 'for' makes the statement run correctly now.

I have a silly beginners question here:

I'm running a for loop within an awk command as follows, however the loop only runs once, instead of 2 through to 11 and then terminating. As the output to...