[2013-04-03 16:25] Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net>
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> using awk this seems to work:
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> awk '{ gsub(A, B); print; }' A="$A" B="$B"
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> Still a bit long, but much better than I can manage in sed or perl. Not sure
> if that is standard awk or not, there's also a -v option to set values.
Your version is the original one, newer implementations and POSIX use -v.
(However the last example on the POSIX page misses the -v.)
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html
Btw, as you wanted it short:
awk '{gsub(A,B)}1' A="$A" B="$B"
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