Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:34:32 +0100 From: Volker Eckert <volkere@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Rod Person <personrp@hotpop.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sed Help..... Message-ID: <20041110223432.GG9457@conde.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <200411101443.01977.personrp@hotpop.com> References: <200411101443.01977.personrp@hotpop.com>
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:43:01PM +0000, Rod Person wrote:
>
> 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'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
my guess is:
after expanding $REPLACELINE your command looks like you see above,
which is not what you wanted.
proposed solution: use other delimiters for sed.
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