How to replace two strings in a file in the same time with sed command ?

[Tino Engel]

Halid Faith schrieb:
> Ok
> But I have another problem,
> I couldn't use any command  interior of sed command. That's to say I have a
> script;
>
> yy="file5"
>  for i in `cat file1`;
>  do
>  sed -e 's/old1/new1\ \'$i'/g' -e 's/old2/'cut -d, -f 1 ${yy}'/g'   file2 >
> file3
>  done
>
> When I run the script,  I get an error, due to using cut command
>
>
>
>   
For using environment variables in sed, you have to use # instead of /

VAR="TEXT"

sed s#OLD#${VAR}#g file1

Will replace OLD by TEXT. Do not use quotations here...
Rg, Tino