>>>>> Andreas Berglund <andreas.bergl...@home.se> writes:
> I have a problem with the following sed snippet
> sed -i s"|^\( *PATH="\)\(.*\)|\1$ADD:\2|" ~/profile-test
> I need soft quotes in order for $ADD to expand and I also need to
> math against one doublequote in the regexp in for $ADD to be put in
> the corrct place.
The double quote character within Shell's double quotes can be
escaped with a backslash (“\”):
sed -i "s|^\( *PATH=\"\)\(.*\)|\1${ADD}:\2|"
However, one is by no means forced to use just one kind of
quotes in Shell, so the following is also possible:
sed -i 's|^\( *PATH="\)\(.*\)|\1'"${ADD}"':\2|'
> Does anyone know how to do this?
The questions like this are much more likely to be answered by
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nntp://aioe.org/comp.unix.shell/
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