From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 4:58:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE2F637B418 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 04:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16261 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2001 13:58:13 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO there) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 24 Sep 2001 13:58:13 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: silly sed question Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:58:12 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010924115816.EE2F637B418@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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