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Old 03-08-2005
Request sed help
Hi,

I've got two values say "var1" and "var2".

I want to replace the occurence of "var1" in the header of a file with "var2".

Something like this -

head -1 header.dat | sed "/s/$var1/$var2"

which I know is wrong. Can someone help me out here.

Thx
# 2  
Old 03-08-2005
You were close...
sed "s/$var1/$var2/"
# 3  
Old 03-08-2005
MySQL Thanks
Thanks Perderabo. It worked.

Yup, as u said... so close ... yet so far ... Smilie

Thx.
 
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