Thanks for the explanation with example.

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On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 3:08 AM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This took me an very frustrating hour to figure out.  Especially
> since I was looking for something like awk's "-F" command.
>
> I hope this save someone else from pulling their hair out!
> (I was trying to do a substitution with a ton of forward slashes
> in it from a variable.   AAAAHHHHH!!!!!)
>
> -T
>
>
>
> Example of substitute example:
>
>
> $ echo "$(echo "TRUE" | sed -e 's/TRUE/FALSE/g')"
> FALSE
>
> "g" is for "global"
>
>
>
> Example with variables (use full quotes):
>
> $ X="abcd"
> $ Y="xyz"
> $ echo $X | sed -e "s/${X}/${Y}/"
> xyz
>
>
> If a variable uses a "/" inside it, use a different "delimiter" (the
> first character after the "s" tells sed what the delimiter is):
>
>
> $ X="./abcd"
> $ Y="./xyz"
> $ echo $X | sed -e "s|${X}|${Y}|"
> ./xyz
>

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