Shell Programming and Scripting

Any character (other than backslash or newline) can be used instead of a slash to delimit the regular expression and the replacement.

Code:

sed -e "s:?:$ORACLE_HOME:g" $file_name

Thanks very much. Its resolved.

But that rule doesn't work when I try to delete a line. Like following code doesn't work:

Code:

sed ":$ORACLE_HOME: d" $file_name

Simply following works alright

Code:

sed '/text/ d' $filename

but not this

Code:

sed ':text: d' $filename

So how do I delete a line using variables that contain slashes?

You can use any delimiter in the search string too, but you have to backslash it (don't ask me why).

Code:

sed '\:text:d' $filename

Thank you era for fast reply. And that works!
Thanks again.

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hi i have a big file i need every time to cut number of lines related together and ta delete also first two lines in the file.

for example :
while ( $x <= $n)
set var1 = ` cat file | sed '1,2d' | awk '{print $4}' | sed '$x,$d' `
@ x = $x + $t
end

it gives me an error with sed command which contains the variable ??????

can anyone help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!