Shell Programming and Scripting

In a Korn shell script I have,
cat ../header | sed -e 's/flag1/$cnumb/g' > header.txt
The header is short
{{Company flag1}}
But the result in header.txt is
{{Company $cnumb}}
The value of $cnumb is 120. I am trying to get the value of $cnumb into the header.
I have tried /'$cnumb'/g, /${cnumb}/, they cause other errors.
Can anybody tell me how to change the place holder flag1 with the value of $cnumb?

Code:

sed -e "s/flag1/$cnumb/g" ../header > header.txt

The error returned is
sed: 0602-404 Function s/flag1/ cannot be parsed.
The single quotes work on AIX not the double.

very strange...........

Code:

$ cat jc.txt
{{Company flag1}}
$ cnumb=5
$ sed -e "s/flag1/${cnumb}/g" jc.txt
{{Company 5}}

I don't know if the whole script makes a difference, but here it is.


for FaxFile in `ls *`
do
phone=`cut -d, -f5 $FaxFile`
cnumb=`cut -d, -f7 $FaxFile`
ponum=`cut -d, -f11 $FaxFile`
cname=`sed -n 3p $FaxFile | cut -d, -f2`
sed -e 's/flag1/$cnumb/g' ../header > $FaxFile.txt
# cat ../header | sed 's/flag1/$cnumb/g' > header.txt
# cat header.txt | sed 's/flag2/$ponum/g' > header.txt
# cat header.txt | sed 's/flag3/$cname/g' > header.txt
# cat header.txt | sed 's/flag4/$phone/g' > header.txt
# cp header.txt $FaxFile.txt
# rm header.txt
done

The result is

{{Begin}}
{{Company $cnumb}}
{{Winsecid LAWSON_FAX}}
{{POnumb flag2}}
{{Contact flag3}}
{{Endcovertext}}
{{Fax flag4}}

This should have been a simple substitution.

you're still using SINGLE quotes - use DOUBLE quotes as suggested.
Also debug you script by adding the 'set -x' at the top of file and you'll see your variables expanded.

Thank you for the help, but as I stated in my first reply - the double quotes caused an error.

sed: 0602-404 Function s/flag1/ cannot be parsed.

There is no error with the single quotes. I don't know if the issue is because this is an AIX environment or if has to do with how the system was installed.

Thank you for trying to help. I am working with the set -x at this time.