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Old 04-18-2008
please check your sed command is syntactically incorrect.

sed s/oldword/newword/g

Please change the position of variable in ur command e.g :
sed "s#ENGINE#${name}#g" template> output
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Old 04-18-2008
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Originally Posted by harpreetanand
please check your sed command is syntactically incorrect.

sed s/oldword/newword/g

Please change the position of variable in ur command e.g :
sed "s#ENGINE#${name}#g" template> output
Ahh that's what it was! Good catch! Thanks everyone for all the help =D
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