Hello all
I need to use sed to replace a given line in a text file with the
current working directory. But this is getting quite tricky. Problem
ilustrated below:
$ cat text.txt
:/some/wrong/path/
$ sed s/.*/:$TERM/ text.txt
:x
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:46:04 +
Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
>jmf@squeeje:~$ sed s/.*/:$PWD/ text.txt
>sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unknown option to `s'
Hello,
this is because $PWD gets expanded by shell before sed gets called, so what
actually gets executed is:
sed s/bbb.*/:/
On 2011-03-18 12:59:08 Andrej Kacian wrote:
>To get result you want, try using different separator character than /, for
>example the comma, or underscore:
Colon is also a pretty good choice. While it is allowed in pathnames, it
already causes problems. Try adding a directory containing colon t
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:59 +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:46:04 +
> Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
>
> >jmf@squeeje:~$ sed s/.*/:$PWD/ text.txt
> >sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unknown option to `s'
>
> Hello,
>
> this is because $PWD gets expanded by shell befo
on 19:08 Fri 18 Mar, Joao Ferreira gmail (joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com)
wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:59 +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:46:04 +
> > Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> >
> > >jmf@squeeje:~$ sed s/.*/:$PWD/ text.txt
> > >sed: -e expression #1,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> on 19:08 Fri 18 Mar, Joao Ferreira gmail (joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com)
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:59 +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:46:04 +
> > > Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
>
>
Please note that
> i agree with that - the underscore that was used is also valid. you
> might look at proper quoting of variables to avoid this. something
> like cat text.txt | sed -e 's/bbb.*/:"$PWD"/' > new.txt
The output from that, given Joao's original text.txt, is
:"$PWD"
The reason is t
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