Re: Regular expression replacement in SED.

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Robert Speed wrote:

> So, what I have in the script is the following;
> 
> SedCommand=\'s\/%NAME%\/$Recipient\/\'

Have you tried double quotes?  I'm not sure what bash's position on it is,
but zsh definitely likes double quotes, and zsh is supposed to be more or
less bashish...

> echo sed $SedCommand $InputDoc \> $DocToSend

Ooh... I know.  Single or double quotes around $SedCommand in this bit
perhaps?

> sed $SedCommand $InputDoc > $DocToSend

Or even better, this line... <g>

> Anyone any ideas ???

Shotgun debugging - the art of placing "", '', and \ in various places until
it works... Then trying to work out why... <g>

Works well for shell scripting, I find, since there's no compiler to give
decent diagnostics.


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