Andrew DeFaria sent the following at Thursday, November 25, 2010 10:15 AM
> On 11/25/2010 09:35 AM, Alexandre Bezroutchko wrote:
>>> you can use a different separator in the sed command.
>>> You can use the following line
>>>
>>> echo 123 | sed "s%2%${HOME}%g"
>>
>> Right, this will work in most cases. But will fail if $HOME happens to
>> contains % sign.
>> The version I have suggested in the previous post is more robust.
>
>How often does that happen?
Use a character that is either or highly unlikely or forbidden to be in a file
name.
Like < or >.
echo 123 | sed "s>2>@$HOME@>g
- Barry
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