X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CEE742C.2060305@gremwell.com> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:35:24 +0100 From: Alexandre Bezroutchko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file References: <4CEE6175 DOT 2030805 AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> <4CEE64C5 DOT 2080007 AT gremwell DOT com> <4CEE6FAF DOT 5080405 AT arcor DOT de> In-Reply-To: <4CEE6FAF.5080405@arcor.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > you can use a different separator in the sed command. > You can use the following line > > echo 123 | sed "s%2%${HOME}%g" Right, this will work in most cases. But will fail if $HOME happens to contains % sign. The version I have suggested in the previous post is more robust. Best regards, Alex www.gremwell.com > > Regards > Dirk > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple