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Old 09-28-2004
The single quotes are preventing variable expansion

Try
Code:
sed -n "$var1,$var2 p" "$rpt" > $HOME/rpt1.tmp

Pay attention to quoting and spaces in my code above.

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ZB
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XGFUPDATE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      XGFUPDATE(1)

NAME
xgfupdate - updates an Xgridfit program file to the latest version. SYNOPSIS
xgfupdate file DESCRIPTION
Xgfupdate is a utility that updates an Xgridfit program file so that it validates against the current xgridfit.rnc schema. Xgfupdate out- puts the updated file to stdout. To capture the output in a file, use this syntax: $xgfupdate [options] infile > outfile OPTIONS
-h Display a help message and exit. -v 1|2 Choose a mode in which to run Xgfupdate. "1" updates an Xgridfit program so that it will validate against the 2.0 schema. "2" updates an Xgridfit program from version 1.x or 2.0 to version 2.1 by adding the Xgridfit namespace; it also revises XInclude elements to be aware of the Xgridfit namespace. FILES
/usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/xgf-update.xsl /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/xgf-add-namespace.xsl XSLT scripts that do the updating. /usr/share/xml/xgridfit/util/add-blanks.sed A Sed script that does some formatting of the output. SEE ALSO
xgridfit(1). AUTHOR
Xgfupdate was written by Peter Baker <psb6m@virginia.edu>. This manual page was written by Peter Baker 2009-12-18 XGFUPDATE(1)