My guess is as anybody's $name likely contains '/' or other characters awk interprets.
I would start by replacing / with # in the sed command hoping that # is never present in $name. Like this: sed "s#NAME_GOES_HERE#$name#" | ... You could also use : to replace /, but that may be common in $name. Tomas On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 12:52 Johnathan Mantey <[email protected]> wrote: > If it only fails on one list, then it must be a problem with the list? > Perhaps $name is populated with an invalid set of characters? > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 9:41 AM Michael Ewan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 's' is the substitute, character 24 is the '$', I am not sure why that is > > giving you an error, but check if $name is weird on that one msg file. > > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 9:35 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I've a short script with this sed statement: > > > sed "s/NAME_GOES_HERE/$name/" msg | mailx -s "<title>" $addr > > > > > > It's applied to three lists, but on only one list does it produce this > > > error: > > > sed: -e expression #1, char 24: unknown option to `s' > > > > > > The messages go out and there's no `s' at character position 24 so I'm > > > puzzled why I see that message. > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > Rich > > > > > >
