I can't get the syntax quite right. Can anybody help, please? Thank you very much.
Thanks very much indeed for various suggestions, much appreciated. I guess by yakking on about "drivename" I moved the focus of my question to its practical application and thereby managed to blur things. My real question is Given the string 123 how can I use sed to change it to 1$HOME3 or, in my case, 1/home/user3. Various combinations of ' " and ` (also arbitrary separators) all fail as in echo 123 | sed 's/2/"$HOME"/g' echo 123 | sed 's/2/`$HOME`/g' echo 123 | sed "s/2/'"$HOME"'/g" echo 123 | sed 's/2/@$HOME@/g' Thank you (again). Fergus -- 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