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Old 10-31-2008
To substitute a string in a line to another string
Suppose,

d=ABC*.BGH.LKJ

Now I want to replace 'DEFGHIJ' instead of '*.B' and store the value in d. Any Idea? Can we use sed here?

The outout should be like this:

d=ABCDEFGHIJGH.LKJ

Please help..
# 2  
Old 10-31-2008
Code:
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> d="ABC*.BGH.LKJ"
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> d=`echo "${d}" | sed 's/\*\.B/DEFGHIJ/'`
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> echo "${d}"
ABCDEFGHIJGH.LKJ

# 3  
Old 10-31-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by zaxxon
Code:
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> d="ABC*.BGH.LKJ"
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> d=`echo "${d}" | sed 's/\*\.B/DEFGHIJ/'`
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> echo "${d}"
ABCDEFGHIJGH.LKJ


SmilieThanks zaxxon
# 4  
Old 10-31-2008
Code:
echo "ABC*.BGH.LKJ" | sed 's/\*\.B/DEFGHIJ/'

# 5  
Old 10-31-2008
It's not necessary to escape the "." and the "*", this should be sufficient:

Code:
d=`echo "$d"|sed 's/*.B/DEFGHI/'`

Regards
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