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Old 11-06-2009, 01:37 AM   #1
pinga123
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Help required for sed command.

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I want a replacement of line at perticular line number
say Number = 5
and Variable = abc

whenever i execute the following command line 5 get replaced with $Variable but not abc.

What is wrong in below code
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sed -e "$Number c\$Variable" vm.cfg > tmp
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Old 11-06-2009, 01:45 AM   #2
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Put two slashes
Hi
You should put two slashes to prevent escape of $
Code:
sed -e "$Number c\\$Variable" vm.cfg > tmp
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