Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:58:12 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: silly sed question Message-ID: <20010924115816.EE2F637B418@hub.freebsd.org>
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I have a string TARGETS='blob1 blob2 blob3' and I wish to use to change this to TARGETS='blob1 blob2 blob3 blob4' for a multitude of files. I am having problems with the quotes sed -e '/^TARGETS s/'$/blob4'/' myfile ie find the line that begins with TARGETS and on that line swap the ending single quote with blob4 and a single quote is what I want to write and for sed to DWIM..... I have tried escaping quotes in various places, double quotes and the like but the correct incantation escapes me.......can anyone help -- My .sig program is broken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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