Tks for the help folks.
Yes, the s/'/"/g was an error, but the true problem was that there was a
"/" character in one of the variables being substituted in and the regexp
was getting confused over that.
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Howard.
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> This is an example of a script I am trying to put together:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> . /etc/site-params
> sed -e 's/CHARS/$CHARS/g' this.file
>
>
> Line 3 puts the variable CHARS into the local environment. What I then
> want the sed to do is to run thru this.file and replace all occurences of
> the string CHARS with the value of the variable $CHARS.
>
> All it achieves though is to replace the string CHARS with the string
> $CHARS, which is not what I want.
>
> Can someone please suggest (politely) what I should do here.
>
>
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