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Old 09-27-2005
How to use sed within shell program?

Hi,
I tried this with my shell program and it didn't work:
/usr/ucb/sed '/$employeeID/d' /usr1/log/logfile


How to let sed see my variable employeeID within my shell program?

Thanks!
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Old 09-27-2005
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