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I have the following string stored in a variable from a file

sbCvgXfsuupllsucpp11-aWa

I want to use sed to search for the string in a second file: FileSys.dat

sed -n "${obid}" FileSys.dat

I'm getting "sed: command garbled: sbCvgXfsuupllsucpp11-aWa"


The syntax seems fine...anyone know why sed cannot execute the above?

thanks

sed doesn't have a sbCvgXfsuupllsucpp11-aWa command listed on my sed man page. To get a listing of all of the line in a file that contain the string sbCvgXfsuupllsucpp11-aWa you might use grep...

grep sbCvgXfsuupllsucpp11-aWa /path/to/file

fgrep would probably be faster. A sed command to do this would be something like:

sed -n "/sbCvgXfsuupllsucpp11-aWa/p"

Perderabo,

I just got sed to print my variable by adding double quotes around my /

sed -n "/${obid}"/p" FileSys.dat



thanks,