Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 21:12:21 +0100 From: "Oliver Mahmoudi" <o.mahmoudi@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: sed dollar sign substitution in Makefile Message-ID: <trinity-9151880c-a747-4215-9c88-f18a94c7a97e-1541535141073@3c-app-gmx-bs51>
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Hello,
I am currently working on a port, where I need to make the following sed substitution in Makefile: turn "print $1" into "print $4".
Therefore, in Makefile I set: ${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|print $1|print $4|g' file_to_be_changed
However, when invoking the build with make, the shell never performs the transformation. The build just runs:
/usr/bin/sed -i.bak 's|print | print |g' file_to_be_changed
and nothing happens.
At the same time, when simply running the same sed command above on the command line, the substitution actually gets performed.
I could imagine, that this has to do with the shell viewing the dollar expressions as arguments being passed to the script.
Any ideas as to how I can get about this one?
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