[Sussex] Bash string substitution

[Steve Dobson]

Ronan

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:55:44PM +0100, Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> Sorry to reply to my own post but just cracked it:
> 
> for FIL in "Catalogue labels Size "$1/.*; do
> 	PAT="s/A/BC/g"
> 	NEW=$(basename "$FIL" | sed "$PAT")
> 	echo $NEW
> done
> 
> I was using single rather than double quotes on my sed expression which
> is where the problem lay...

I always use signle quotes on my sed scripts.  I would have writen
your line as:
   $NEW=`basename $FIL | sed -e 's/A/BC/g'`

Steve

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