Trouble assigning value to variable with

fatsheep · 11-07-2006, 07:11 PM

Here's the command:

Quote:

sed_cur_pkg=`echo $cur_pkg | sed s%\/%\\\\/%g | sed s%\\.%\\\\.%g`

The output of echo $cur_pkg | sed s%\/%\\\\/%g | sed s%\\.%\\\\.%g is \/home\/ubuntu\/Desktop\/sources\/pkg\/lynx-2\.8\.6. This is what I want to assign to $sed_cur_pkg. However, when I echo $sed_cur_pkg it ouputs:

Quote:

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Why is this?

fatsheep · 11-07-2006, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatsheep

Here's the command:

The output of echo $cur_pkg | sed s%\/%\\\\/%g | sed s%\\.%\\\\.%g is \/home\/ubuntu\/Desktop\/sources\/pkg\/lynx-2\.8\.6. This is what I want to assign to $sed_cur_pkg. However, when I echo $sed_cur_pkg it ouputs:

Why is this?

Switched the "%" chars to "@" and enclosed the sed expressions in '' and now it works.