Re: search and replace within string

Thu, 17 May 2007 11:16:42 -0700 

On 5/17/07, Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am curious how I would make searchFor and replaceWith variables.

This…

searchFor="search_for_text"
replaceWith="replace_with_text"
newString=$(echo $@ | sed 's/$searchFor/$replaceWith/')
echo $newString


The following should work:
searchFor=search_for_text
replaceWith=replace_with_text
for s in $@; do
   echo $(echo "${s}" | sed "s/${searchFor}/${replaceWith}/g")
done

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