Hhmm...Good point. I betcha it's the slashes
$ echo $APP_SERVER_DOMAIN C:/bea/user_projects/domains/fimdomain -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Rehley Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:28 PM To: Cygwin List' Subject: Re: sed doesnt convert varibale values??? On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Maloney, Michael wrote: > > I tried it with double-quotes before and it wont accept it: > > $ sed "s/weblogic.Server/$APP_SERVER_DOMAIN weblogic.Server/" $file > sed: -e expression #1, char 22: unknown option to `s' > ok, This tells me that APP_SERVER_DOMAIN is getting expanded and probably contains some characters that are messing up the sed expression. What is $APP_SERVER_DOMAIN set to. Just send "echo sed ...." > > I grabbed a line from a script that works on Solaris (double quotes > work > there): > sed "s/"$system"_User_email = "$cur_email"/"$system"_User_email = > "$new_mail"/" $file > ./tmp.txt > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Peter Rehley > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 1:41 PM > To: Cygwin List' > Subject: Re: sed doesnt convert varibale values??? > > > On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Maloney, Michael wrote: > > >> >> I am using sed and for some reason, it is entering the variable >> name and >> not the value to output. The line looks like: >> sed 's/weblogic.Server/$APP_SERVER_DOMAIN weblogic.Server/' $file >> > It's not a sed thing, it's a shell thing. When you put the > expression in single quotes, the shell doesn't touch the string, but > by putting the string in double quotes the shell will parse the > string before sending it to sed. This is standard for unix, linux, > cygwin, etc, etc > >> >> The output looks like: >> %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java %JAVA_VM% %MEM_ARGS% %JAVA_OPTIONS% >> -Dweblogic.Name=%SERVER >> _NAME% -Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled=%PRODUCTION_MODE% >> -Djava.security.policy >> ="%WL_HOME%\server\lib\weblogic.policy" "$APP_SERVER_DOMAIN >> weblogic.Server" >> >> It's just putting the variable name there. I went back an looked at >> some >> earlier scripts that I wrote for Unix and the Unix sed worked just >> as I >> am trying to do now. >> > > >> -- >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/