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Old 04-30-2009, 01:49 AM   #1
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Replacing a pattern using variable?

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ip1="xxx"
ip2="bbb"

sed 's/$ip1/$ip2/g'
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Old 04-30-2009, 02:23 AM   #2
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s/'/"/g

i.e. use double quotes instead of single quotes.
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