Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:02:44 +0100
From:      Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
To:        personrp@hotpop.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sed Help.....
Message-ID:  <20041110210244.359a885f.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200411101443.01977.personrp@hotpop.com>
References:  <200411101443.01977.personrp@hotpop.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--Signature=_Wed__10_Nov_2004_21_02_44_+0100_aWbmBt1ImK5fzX.p
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:43:01 +0000
Rod Person <personrp@hotpop.com> wrote:

Hi,

>     KDMLINE="/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon"
>     REPLACELINE="/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"
> 
>     sed -e "s/$REPLACELINE/$KDMLINE/g" /etc/test/ttys > /etc/test/new
> 
> Here is the error I'm getting:
>     sed: 1: "s//usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -n ...": bad flag in substitute
>     command: 'X'
> 

Both strings contain /, so you have to either escape it "\/" or use
different command separator, e.g. 's@$REPLACELINE@$KDMLINE@g'

Cheers,
-- 
	Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> | Extreme ways are back again
	http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org            | Extreme places I didn't know
	PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1                      | I broke everything new again
	Note: All HTML mail goes to /dev/null    | Everything that I'd owned


--Signature=_Wed__10_Nov_2004_21_02_44_+0100_aWbmBt1ImK5fzX.p
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFBknPonLctrNyFFPERAhyHAJ9Cu3HDnWRfLSCvoF3ocqZijnRd2gCgkFy2
Vkg0jT7hA4rYGPd9LPtOG0c=
=1LWe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--Signature=_Wed__10_Nov_2004_21_02_44_+0100_aWbmBt1ImK5fzX.p--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041110210244.359a885f.flynn>