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Well, your script works for me, provided you previously assign the variable CD_PATH. Do you get some error messages? What is the content of /usr/local/sbin/Test/$VM_GUEST/vm.cfg after running this script?
Anyway, so many passes are not necessary if sed can do it in one line. See the following example (directly on command line):
Note the -i option of sed: it make sed to edit the file in place, without intervention of temporary files. The -i.bck form automatically does a backup file adding the suffix .bck to the original name. The suffix can be anything at your choice. HTH.
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