On 8/25/2015 10:50 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:
------------------- This is the two line script CHANGE="1234"cat my_file.txt | sed 's/CANCELID/$CHANGE/' > cancel.txt ------------------- and the my_file.txt has: <v1:notificationId>CANCELID</v1:notificationId> it gets changed to $CHANGE instead of the actual value 1234 . I tried putting a \ in front of the $ also and made no difference.
use " instead of '. inside ', a $ is just a literal. inside ", $NAME gets substituted.
-- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
