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# 1  
Old 07-24-2006
Replacing text
I was using the following code to replace the path names and it works when it is
Code:
echo "$PWD/$f" | sed -e 's/^.*chris\.domain\.com/chris.domain.com/'

IN fact it works great

However I tried to incorporate a variable

echo "$PWD/$f" | sed -e 's/^.*$account\.domain\.com/$account.domain.com/'

And now the output is not working.

Can anyone help.

Chris
# 2  
Old 07-24-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by chrchcol
echo "$PWD/$f" | sed -e 's/^.*$account\.domain\.com/$account.domain.com/'
Drop the single quotes and introduce " ".

Code:
echo "$PWD/$f" | sed -e "s/^.*$account.domain.com/$account.domain.com/"

You do not have to specifically escape the dot (.)
# 3  
Old 07-24-2006
Thank you so much that worked well.
# 4  
Old 07-25-2006
Problems with find command and time variable
I am using the following
Code:
echo How many hours? 
echo hours
let t=$hours*60

find . -type f -mmin "$t" > holder

Its supposed to find all the files changed in t minutes and put them into the file holder. It does not seem to be working though.

Chris
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