On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:09:28 Michael Elkins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 08:15:38PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > >What I'm trying to do is pretty simple. Getting it to work is turning out > > not to be. What I want to do is call a bash script with a couple of > > arguments, and, within the script, call sed to use those args to replace > > two placeholders in a file: > > > >bashscript SUB1 SUB2 > > > >This line inside bashscript doesn't work: > > > >sed -e 's/PLACEHOLDER1/$1/' -e 's/PLACEHOLDER2/$2/' < input > output > > If you switch the single quotes to double quotes it will work as you > expect. Variables inside of double quotes are expanded. Single quotes are > for literal strings, as you've discovered.
That was the first thing I tried and sed gave me an error: sed: -e expression #1, char 18: unknown option to `s' I just went back and tried it again and it worked, so I have no idea what I did the first time that made it not work. -- "Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue." - John R. Trimble -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004171202.40262.ddjo...@riddlemaster.org