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# 8  
Old 09-21-2006
What contains your variables line1 and line1_m ?

If line1 contains special chars for sed like [ . *, they must be preceded by \ to loose they special meaning.
For example if you want to replace the string 'Bye.', line1 must contains 'Bye\.'

In the same way the replacement string can contains special char or expression like & \1. Using \ may bee need.
For example to replace string 'You' by 'You & Me', line1_m must contains 'You \& Me'.

Jean-Pierre.
# 9  
Old 09-21-2006
line1:
A,P,CMD,21-SEP-06,2006
and line1_m:
A,P,CMD,21-SEP-06,2006,2814

Guidance plz.
# 10  
Old 09-21-2006
sed -e 's/'${line1}'/'${line1_m}'/g' will work in Bash not sh what shell are you using
# 11  
Old 09-21-2006
I'm using sh.
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