UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Unfortunately yes.

Line from FILE:
SCCS=33.0

With this:
prev=$(awk -F"=" '{ print $2 }' $FILE)
new=$(echo "scale=1; $prev * 10" | bc )
sed "s/$prev/$new/g" $FILE

I get:
sed: command garbled: s/

1. what are the values for 'prev' and 'new'? Use 'echo' before sed-ding
2. again a couple of lines from the file $FILE - could be helpful
3. try: sed "s#$prev#$new#g" $FILE

I receive the same results from:
sed "s#$prev#$sccs#g" $FILE

I am in bash. I am not sure how to tell what version I am using.

Just to restate what vgersh99 said:

1. what are the values for 'prev' and 'new'? Use 'echo' before sed-ding

your value for prev is probably the problem. I imaging it is returning more than one result.
so this may help:

Code:

for value in ${prev} ; do
    sed "s/${value}/${new}/g" ${FILENAME} >> NEW_FILE
done

Like this?
prev=$(awk -F"=" '{ print $2 }' $FILE)
new=$(echo "scale=1; $prev * 10" | bc )
echo $prev
echo $new
sed "s/$prev/$new/g" $FILE

I receive this:
33.0
330.0
sed: command garbled: s/

There is only one value in the file.
FILE has:
SCCS=33.0

works fine for [Solaris 9]....
make sure your 'sed' [and the entire script] doesn't have any hidden/control chars [like ^M] - if you've been transfering files from one system to the other.

Man... this stinks.
I am on SunOS 5.8
I can't figure out why this isn't working. When I do this from the command line:
prev=33.0; new=34.0; sed s/$prev/$new/g $FILE

it works fine. But within another script it fails.

It has got to be in the interpretation of the variables. When I just put in the values in the script explicitly like this:
sed s/33.0/34.0/g $FILE

It also works. So when $prev and $new are evaluated it is screwing up somewhere.