Sed Help.....

[Miguel Mendez]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:43:01 +0000
Rod Person <personrp at hotpop.com> wrote:

Hi,

>     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'
> 

Both strings contain /, so you have to either escape it "\/" or use
different command separator, e.g. 's@$REPLACELINE@$KDMLINE at g'

Cheers,
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