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> 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.

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Alex
www.gremwell.com

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