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# 8  
Old 07-29-2011
It does work for me in GNU Sed. What sed you have..? sed --version
Code:
$>oldDate='2011/06/28 11:16:14'
$>newDate='2011/06/28 45:56:67'
$>rec='john 2011/06/28 11:16:14'
$>echo "$rec" | sed "s|$oldDate|$newDate|"
$>john 2011/06/28 45:56:67

# 9  
Old 07-29-2011
[QUOTE=michaelrozar17;302542960]It does work for me in GNU Sed. What sed you have..?
my sed version is GNU sed version 4.1.5
# 10  
Old 07-29-2011
Do you try your extracted code or you just change your script?
Code:
% cat <script.sh
record="john 2011/06/28 11:16:14"
oldDate="2011/06/28 11:16:14"
newDate="2011/06/28 45:56:67"
echo $record | sed 's|'"$oldDate"'|'"$newDate"'|'

% sh script.sh
john 2011/06/28 45:56:67

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# 11  
Old 07-29-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by yazu
Do you try your extracted code or you just change your script?
Code:
% cat <script.sh
record="john 2011/06/28 11:16:14"
oldDate="2011/06/28 11:16:14"
newDate="2011/06/28 45:56:67"
echo $record | sed 's|'"$oldDate"'|'"$newDate"'|'

% sh script.sh
john 2011/06/28 45:56:67

Thats working. Not sure what mistake was i doing.
Anyway, thanks a lot.
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