Hi, > On 6. Nov 2018, at 9:12 PM, Oliver Mahmoudi <o.mahmoudi at gmx.de> wrote: > > Therefore, in Makefile I set: ${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|print $1|print $4|g' file_to_be_changed In make commands you need to escape $ as $$ to be able to pass it to the shell. Cheers, Franco