[Gllug] little bash/sed scripting problem

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:10:50PM -0400, Simon Jakesch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a quick question someone should be able to help me
> with fairly quickly. Basically if I execute the bashscript
> below sed doesn't seem to be executed. However if I run the
> sed command line in a normal shell it works (so the syntax
> is correct). Why is it that sed isn't executing fro within
> this script?
> 
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> FILE=EventDatabaseListener.xml
> cp $FILE temp.temp
> echo "sed -e 's/$2/$3/' temp.temp > $FILE"
> echo "rm -f temp.temp"

Should that not be:
	sed -e "s/$2/$3/" temp.temp > $FILE
	rm -f temp.temp

Presumably $2 & $3 are set from the command line invoking the script.


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