Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > > Speaking of sed scripts ;> > > > > How can I pass a shell variable into a sed script pattern space? > > > > I've seen two (2) means documented elsewhere; but, I cannot get them to > > work in Dachstein-CD: > > > > sed -n '/'"$var"'/p' file > > This works... > > > > > sed -n '/$(var)/p' file > > ...but this won't because substitutions are not made inside single quotes. > > > > > Yes, I've found that I can do it this way; but, I'd prefer a single > > step: > > > > regx="/$var/p" > > sed -n $regx file > > > > What do you think? > > This is a single step? :)
No, that's my point . . . > Shouldn't > > sed -n "/$var/p" > > work? My bad -- again ;< This just isn't my day. I don't know what I was doing differently; but, yes, now these work . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
