Actually no, it works fine. I tried it out with some examples before suggesting it as
a solution.
Gordon
Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Gordon McCrae wrote:
> >User Double quotes (i.e ") instead of single quotes (i.e. ') and it will work.
>
> Actually it's more complicated than that because double quotes
> then require at least doubling all the backwhack characters (one
> of the joys of doing things like this in shell scripts).
>
> >Gordon
> >
> >"Douglas J. Hunley" wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to write a script to remove parts of a file and am having
> >> difficulty. The code looks like:
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >>
> >> for i in zh fr de it ja ko pt es
> >> do
> >> for j in `find . -newer .babel -name '*.html' -print`
> >> do
> >> cat $j.$i | sed
> >> 's/http\:\/\/babelfish\.altavista\.com\/urltrurl?lp=en_$i\&url=//g' >>
> >> $j.$i.tmp
> >> mv $j.$i.tmp $j.$i
> >> done
> >> done
> >>
> >> you can see that within the 'sed' I want to use $i... I can't figure out a
> >> way to do this. Anyone?
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