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Hi Fergus,
The problem is $HOME contains '/' character used as delimited in regex. You need to escape it first:
HOME_ESCAPED=`echo "$HOME" | sed 's#/#\\\\/#g'` echo 123 | sed "s/2/$HOME_ESCAPED/g"
It is not cygwin-specific.
Cheers, Alex www.gremwell.com
On 11/25/2010 02:15 PM, Fergus wrote:I can't get the syntax quite right. Can anybody help, please? Thank you very much.
Thanks very much indeed for various suggestions, much appreciated. I guess by yakking on about "drivename" I moved the focus of my question to its practical application and thereby managed to blur things. My real question is
Given the string 123 how can I use sed to change it to 1$HOME3 or, in my case, 1/home/user3. Various combinations of ' " and ` (also arbitrary separators) all fail as in
echo 123 | sed 's/2/"$HOME"/g' echo 123 | sed 's/2/`$HOME`/g' echo 123 | sed "s/2/'"$HOME"'/g" echo 123 | sed 's/2/@$HOME@/g'
Thank you (again).
Fergus
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you can use a different separator in the sed command. You can use the following line
Regards Dirk
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