Hi Fergus,
The problem is $HOME contains '/' character used as delimited in regex.
You need to escape it first:
HOME_ESCAPED=`echo "$HOME" | sed 's#/#\\\\/#g'`
echo 123 | sed "s/2/$HOME_ESCAPED/g"
It is not cygwin-specific.
Cheers,
Alex
www.gremwell.com
On 11/25/2010 02:15 PM, Fergus wrote:
I can't get the syntax quite right.
Can anybody help, please? Thank you very much.
Thanks very much indeed for various suggestions, much appreciated. I
guess by yakking on about "drivename" I moved the focus of my question
to its practical application and thereby managed to blur things. My real
question is
Given the string 123 how can I use sed to change it to 1$HOME3 or, in my
case, 1/home/user3. Various combinations of ' " and ` (also arbitrary
separators) all fail as in
echo 123 | sed 's/2/"$HOME"/g'
echo 123 | sed 's/2/`$HOME`/g'
echo 123 | sed "s/2/'"$HOME"'/g"
echo 123 | sed 's/2/@$HOME@/g'
Thank you (again).
Fergus
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