X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-BigFish: V X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 204.180.196.11;Service: EHS Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Can I use a variable in sed? Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:24:44 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: "Long, Phillip GOSS" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l4PDOn4F018453 Jerome Fong wrote: > I'm trying to write a script that allows me to change the port > [snip] > Here is the line I'm executing > > sed '1,$ s^8080^$Shutdown_Port^' <./temp.xml >./server.xml > [snip] > What am I doing wrong here? Can sed be passed a variable? > > thanks, > > Jerome > Assuming that U're using bash, use double-quotes around the shell variable; single-quotes escape the dollar-sign ($) for variables. If U need to mix-and-match single- and double-quotes, adjacent strings (no intervening whitespace) are automatically concatenated, so this string: sed '1,$ s^8080^'"$Shutdown_Port"'^' ... should fill the bill. -------------------------------------------------------- Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/